{"id":361358,"date":"2013-01-28T16:34:14","date_gmt":"2013-01-28T21:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/content.findlaw-admin.com\/ability-law\/dictionary\/definition\/gain.html"},"modified":"2013-01-28T16:34:14","modified_gmt":"2013-01-28T21:34:14","slug":"gain","status":"publish","type":"dictionary","link":"https:\/\/dictionary.findlaw.com\/definition\/gain.html","title":{"rendered":"Gain"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"fl-index-heading\">\n    <p>term:<\/p>\n    <h1 class=\"fl-h1 fl-mb20\"><\/h1>\n\n    <dl class=\"fl-index-heading-description-list\">\n            <dt class=\"fl-mb10\"><p class=\"fl-text-bold\">n<\/p><\/dt>\n        <dd><p><b>1<\/b>  <b>:<\/b> an increase in value, capital, or amount compare <a href=\"https:\/\/dictionary.findlaw.com\/definition\/loss.html\">loss<\/a> <\/p>\n<p><b>capital gain<\/b><br \/>  <b>:<\/b> a gain realized on the sale or exchange of a capital asset (as a stock or real estate) <\/p>\n<p><b>ca&#183;su&#183;al&#183;ty gain<\/b><br \/>  <b>:<\/b> a gain realized by an insured because property insurance benefits paid for a loss from a casualty or theft are greater than the adjusted value of the insured asset <\/p>\n<p><b>long-term capital gain<\/b><br \/>  <b>:<\/b> a capital gain realized on the sale or exchange of an asset held for more than a specified period (as a year) <\/p>\n<p><b>ordinary gain<\/b><br \/>  <b>:<\/b> a gain from the exchange or sale of an asset that is not capital <\/p>\n<p><b>short-term capital gain<\/b><br \/>  <b>:<\/b> a capital gain realized on the sale or exchange of an asset held for less than a specified period (as a year) that is treated as ordinary income under federal income tax laws <br \/>  <b>2<\/b>  <b><i><br \/>  <i>pl<\/i><br \/>  <\/i><\/b><br \/>  <i>in the civil law of Louisiana<\/i><br \/>  <b>:<\/b> a class of community property that reflects the increase in property value contributed by the common skill or labor of the spouses <br \/>  <b><i>  gain   <i>vb<\/i><br \/>  <\/b><\/i><\/p>\n<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n    <div class=\"fl-index-heading-source\">Source: Merriam-Webster&#8217;s Dictionary of Law \u00a91996. Merriam-Webster, Incorporated. Published under license with Merriam-Webster, Incorporated.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is &#8216;Gain&#8217;? Learn more about legal terms and the law at FindLaw.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"parent":358119,"menu_order":0,"template":"app\/Http\/Controllers\/Templates\/DictionaryArticleController.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","_autodraft_ids":[],"_cloudinary_featured_overwrite":false,"_sb_is_suggestion_mode":false,"_sb_show_suggestion_boards":false,"_sb_show_comment_boards":false,"_sb_suggestion_history":"","_sb_update_block_changes":"","_is_real_time_mode":false,"_realtime_collaborators":"","cf_checklist_status":[]},"dictionary_tags":[],"class_list":["post-361358","dictionary","type-dictionary","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dictionary.findlaw.com\/law-api\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/dictionary\/361358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dictionary.findlaw.com\/law-api\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/dictionary"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dictionary.findlaw.com\/law-api\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/dictionary"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dictionary.findlaw.com\/law-api\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/dictionary\/358119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dictionary.findlaw.com\/law-api\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"dictionary_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dictionary.findlaw.com\/law-api\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/dictionary_tags?post=361358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}