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Definition of Goodwills
1. goodwill [n] - See also: goodwill
Lexicographical Neighbors of Goodwills
Literary usage of Goodwills
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Practice of Conveyancing: Comprising Every Usual Deed, Analytically and by James Stewart (1831)
"TITLES OF goodwills. It seems to be settled that a court of equity will not
execute a contract for the sale of a goodwill of a trade or business ; it will ..."
2. Transactions of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science by George Woodyatt Hastings, Andrew Edgar, Charles Wager Ryalls, Edwin Pears (1875)
"If a valuation of the purchase of the goodwills of the commercial Indian and
Colonial houses were made, with a view to a transferrence to the houses of some ..."
3. Your Bankers' Position at a Glance by Henry Warren (1901)
"£40000 is outstanding on goodwills account, a little item reminiscent of ...
goodwills account by £20000 in 1900, and that the said sum was deducted from ..."
4. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1905)
"... which copyrights, goodwills, and property were determined by me to have their
situs and to be amenable, to taxation under chapter 542, Laws 1380, ..."
5. Land: Its Attractions and Riches by Charles Finch Dowsett (1892)
"Selling Furniture, Live and Dead Farm Stock, Tenant Rights, Growing Crops, Timber,
Fixtures, goodwills, Stocks-in-Trade, &c., by Auction and privately. ..."
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