11.   Investors owning index-fund shares earn returns that roughly match the actual index and receive dividends paid by those companies.

12.   It may be no comfort to the Rudys and their allies, but they are hardly alone in receiving slimmer dividends.

13.   On the ex-dividend date, a current purchaser of the stock does not receive a dividend.

14.   Option holders do not usually receive dividends, which means they make a profit only on any appreciation of the stock price beyond the exercise price.

15.   Prospective buyers automatically offered less for the stock than they would have offered if they could have received the dividend.

16.   Richemont and Rembrandt will receive dividends from the new Rothmans International in proportion to their equity interests.

17.   That allows policyholders to receive dividends that reduce the cost of their coverage and have a stake in the company.

18.   The dividend can be received in cash and warrants.

19.   The institutions will receive dividends from the investments of the estate held in trust, about one percent of the value each year.

20.   The minority of policyholders with what is known as nonparticipating policies received no dividends and had no ownership rights.