surplus earnings

surplus earnings
An amount owned by a corporation, over and above its capital and actual liabilities. People ex rel. Manhattan Fire Ins. CO. v Commissioners of Taxes, 76 NY 64, 74.

Ballentine's law dictionary. . 1998.

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