merger

The act or an instance of merging.

An absorption of one corporation by another, with the corporation being absorbed losing its separate identity and governance.

An absorption of a lesser estate, contract, criminal offense, right, or liability into a succeeding larger one, resulting in the extinction of the former.

One who or that which merges.

A merging of the interests and control of two or more corporations, engaged in the same line, or in allied lines, of business, into a single corporation which exchanges its stock for that of the merging corporations, which however preserve, nominally at least, their separate identity.

In the law of conveyancing, the sinking or obliteration of a lesser estate in lands, etc., resulting when it is transferred without qualification to the owner of a greater estate in the same property (or the like transfer of the greater estate to the owner of the lesser), if there be no intermediate estate.

In the law of contracts, the extinguishment of a security for a debt by the creditor’s acceptance of a higher security, such as a bond in lieu of a note, or a judgment in lieu of either: so called because such acceptance, by operation of law, and without intention of the parties, merges the lower security.

One who, or that which, merges.

An absorption of one estate, or one contract, in another, or of a minor offense in a greater.

The combining of two groups into a unified single group under a single leadership, with voluntary participation by the leaders or management of both groups.