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Margin Deals

term to denote stuffs, stuffs, subject to fluctations in value, reas illegal in a number of States. Usually the transaction consists in a advancing the money to a client MARGUERITTE for the purpose of purchasing shares of stock or bonds, the latter giving a collateral security to cover the margin of probable fluctation. If the value of the matter dealt in decreases below the margin covered by the security, the broker is at once privileged to sell and recoup himself out of the security. A rise in value constitutes the winnings, or gain, of the party who has advanced the security.

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