fair return

  • 1fair return on investment — A fair return is to be largely measured by usual returns in like investments in the same vicinity over the same period of time. Natural Gas Pipeline Co. of America v. Federal Power Commission, C.C.A.I11., 120 F.2d 625, 633, 634. Reasonable profit …

    Black's law dictionary

  • 2fair return on investment — A fair return is to be largely measured by usual returns in like investments in the same vicinity over the same period of time. Natural Gas Pipeline Co. of America v. Federal Power Commission, C.C.A.I11., 120 F.2d 625, 633, 634. Reasonable profit …

    Black's law dictionary

  • 3fair return — An expression much employed in the fixing of public utility rates, meaning a reasonable return on the value of the property used in rendering the services. 52 Am J1st Teleg & T § 57. A reasonable return on the investment of a public utility,… …

    Ballentine's law dictionary

  • 4fair — adj 1: characterized by honesty and justice: free from self interest, deception, injustice, or favoritism a fair and impartial tribunal 2: reasonable as a basis for exchange a fair wage a fair valuation 3: consistent with merit or importance …

    Law dictionary

  • 5return — To bring, carry, or send back; to place in the custody of; to restore; to re deliver. Return means that something which has had a prior existence will be brought or sent back. Sims v. Western Steel Co., C.A. Utah, 551 F.2d 811, 820. The act of a… …

    Black's law dictionary

  • 6fair value — Present market value; such sum as the property will sell for to a purchaser desiring to buy, the owner wishing to sell; such a price as a capable and diligent business man could presently obtain from the property after conferring with those… …

    Black's law dictionary

  • 7fair value — Present market value; such sum as the property will sell for to a purchaser desiring to buy, the owner wishing to sell; such a price as a capable and diligent business man could presently obtain from the property after conferring with those… …

    Black's law dictionary

  • 8fair rate of return — Amount of profits that a public utility is permitted to earn as determined by public utility commissions. Such is based on the need of the utility to maintain service to customers, finance expenditures for improvements and expansion, pay… …

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  • 9fair rate of return — Amount of profits that a public utility is permitted to earn as determined by public utility commissions. Such is based on the need of the utility to maintain service to customers, finance expenditures for improvements and expansion, pay… …

    Black's law dictionary

  • 10Fair Linen Cloth —    , Fair White Linen Cloth    In the Communion Office there are two rubrics, the first of which reads as follows: The Table, at the Communion time having a fair white linen cloth upon it, etc. By this is meant the long linen cloth the breadth of …

    American Church Dictionary and Cyclopedia