American Depository Receipt Law and Legal Definition
American depository receipt or ADR is a receipt issued by American banks to Americans as a substitute for actual ownership of shares of foreign stocks. ADRs are traded on American stock exchanges and over-the-counter easily without the necessity of trading the foreign shares themselves.
Legal Definition list
- American Depositary Receipt
- American Declaration on the Right and Duties of Man
- American Customer Satisfaction Index
- American Council of State Savings Supervisors (ACSSS)
- American Convention on Human Rights
- American Depository Receipt
- American Educational Research Association [AERA]
- American Employer
- American Experience Table of Mortality
- American FactFinder
- American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE)
Related Legal Terms
- Administration for Native Americans
- African Americans
- Alien Registration Receipt Card
- American 5-cent Coin Design Continuity Act of 2003
- American Academy of Actuaries [AAA]
- American Academy of Diplomacy
- American Academy of Forensic Sciences [AAFS]
- American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law [AAPL]
- American Arbitration Association
- American Association for Justice [AAJ]
