förgäveskostnader
English translation: fruitless costs; wasteful expenditure
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| 3 | (fin.) wasteful expenditure; (legal) wasted /BrE/ costs /AmE/ expenditure |
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peer agreement (net): +1fruitless costs Explanation: fruitless and wasteful expenditure | legal definition of fruitless ...www.lawinsider.com › Dictionary Define fruitless and wasteful expenditure. means expenditure that was made in vain and would have been avoided had reasonable care been exercised; -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 12 mins (2020-02-26 17:50:06 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- Accounts and Papers - Volume 6 - Page 5 - Google Books Resultbooks.google.co.uk › books Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords - 1839 This Statement must be compared with the Expenses incurred in New South ... without the Risk of a large and fruitless Cost , we may hope to attain the Two ... |
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(fin.) wasteful expenditure; (legal) wasted /BrE/ costs /AmE/ expenditure Explanation: Thanks to Deane G. for the expenditure. I feel that at least a stab ought to be taken at the legal variation on the term and that can go a different way. A 'wasted costs order' can made in the UK against the legal reps. of losing clients for wasting the judge's time, namely by a shoddily presented case and failing to cite relevant cases. -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 4 days (2020-03-02 10:20:12 GMT) Post-grading -------------------------------------------------- A 'wasted costs order' actually comes up quite often as a disguised question of common (mal-)practis/ce in English & British Commonwealth Bar Finals. Example sentence(s):
Reference: http://sv.bab.la/lexikon/engelsk-svensk/wasted |
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| Reference: finding Reference information: History - Department of Child and Youth Studieswww.buv.su.se › english › about-us › history 26 Mar 2019 - Moreover, as is often the case, hundreds and hundreds of hours have been invested in so called förgäveskostnader (literally 'costs in vain'), ... -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 9 mins (2020-02-26 17:47:33 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- Vainest - definition of vainest by The Free Dictionarywww.thefreedictionary.com › vainest Not yielding the desired outcome; fruitless: a vain attempt. 2. Lacking substance or worth: vain talk. 3. Having or showing excessive pride in one's appearance or ... |
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