interest

Interest stands for:

• Interest (psychology)
• Interest (political science)
• Public interest , especially in public law and administration
• Special public interest , a special reason for persecution in German criminal law
• positive interest on the part of the obligee in private law, see performance interest
• Negative interest on both sides about the validity of a contract in private law, see interest in trust

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Wiktionary: Interest  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

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