settlement definition

settlement

Law: (1) Conclusion of an agreement under which a party (called the obligor) fulfills its promise to another party (called the obligee). (2) Conveyance of a property (or the settlor's interest in it) to provide for the trust's one or more beneficiaries. (3) Winding up and final distribution of a deceased's estate.

Selling: Conclusion of a transaction where what was bought is delivered to the buyer, and payment for which is made to the seller.

Negotiations: Agreement reached between two or more contending parties.

Securities: Delivery of a security by a seller to a buyer on or before the settlement date (typically, 3 business days after the trading date).

settlement is in the Advertising, Marketing, & Sales, Corporate, Commercial, & General Law, Negotiating & Conflict Resolution, Real Estate & Buildings and Securities & Futures Trading subjects.

settlement appears in the definitions of the following terms: composition, expenditure, investment treaty, bilateral investment treaty, equitable remedy, pegging, cross-currency settlement risk, non-recurring income, special drawing rights (SDR), Euroclear and

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