cumulative dividends

cumulative dividends
Dividends on preferred stock which accumulate under contract, charter, or bylaw provision, where a dividend or dividends are passed because of want of the requisite net earnings to permit the payment of a dividend, and which must be paid before any dividend whatever for any later year is paid to common stockholders or to preferred stockholders of a class not entitled to cumulation of dividends. See 19 Am J2d Corp § 878 et seq.

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