§ 5621 Purpose
§ 5622 Definitions
§ 5623 Expanded access to mainstream financial institutions
§ 5624 Low-cost alternatives to small dollar loans
§ 5625 Procedural provisions
§ 5626 Authorization of appropriations
§ 5627 Regulations
§ 5628 Evaluation and reports to Congress
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Terms Used In U.S. Code > Title 12 > Chapter 53 > Subchapter VII - Improving Access to Mainstream Financial Institutions

  • Common law: The legal system that originated in England and is now in use in the United States. It is based on judicial decisions rather than legislative action.
  • Personal property: All property that is not real property.
  • Precedent: A court decision in an earlier case with facts and law similar to a dispute currently before a court. Precedent will ordinarily govern the decision of a later similar case, unless a party can show that it was wrongly decided or that it differed in some significant way.
  • Proxy voting: The practice of allowing a legislator to cast a vote in committee for an absent legislator.
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