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{{def|Special purpose vehicle|/ˈspɛʃ(ə)l | {{def|Special purpose vehicle|/ˈspɛʃ(ə)l ˈpəːpəs ˈviːɪk(ə)/|n|[[File:SPV.jpg|450px|thumb|center|An [[espievie]] going about its charitable purposes yesterday]]}} | ||
A unique species of [[joint stock company]]<ref> | A unique species of [[joint stock company]]<ref>Also known as an “[[espievie]]” and, in accounting circles for some reason, as an “[[espiecie]]” — rest assured it is the same beast.</ref> first discovered in the lush forests of [[George Town]], [[Grand Cayman]] by dour Scottish naturalist [[A. J. N. Calder]] in 1926. | ||
For many years Calder believed the creature he had found — genus ''consortium restrictum culpam caymanium'', the “Common” or “Cayman Exempted” [[Espievie]] — was unique in the world. His, and our, world was rocked when naturalists found variant species elsewhere: first not far from the Caribbean, when [[L. B. G. T. Appleby]] discovered the [[Bermudan reinsurance espievie]] in 1939, and [[Herbert Fonesca]] discovering the [[Panamanian film espievie]] in 1953, and then further afield when, in 1964 the Jersey botanist [[Ichabod Mourant]] discovered a colony of “[[Oeic]]s” (the word derived from the Jèrriais for “imaginary legal entity” and is pronounced “[[Oik]]”) nesting in the archive stacks of Guernsey’s ''Library for the Illiterate''. | For many years Calder believed the creature he had found — genus ''consortium restrictum culpam caymanium'', the “Common” or “Cayman Exempted” [[Espievie]] — was unique in the world. His, and our, world was rocked when naturalists found variant species elsewhere: first not far from the Caribbean, when [[L. B. G. T. Appleby]] discovered the [[Bermudan reinsurance espievie]] in 1939, and [[Herbert Fonesca]] discovering the [[Panamanian film espievie]] in 1953, and then further afield when, in 1964 the Jersey botanist [[Ichabod Mourant]] discovered a colony of “[[Oeic]]s” (the word derived from the Jèrriais for “imaginary legal entity” and is pronounced “[[Oik]]”) nesting in the archive stacks of Guernsey’s ''Library for the Illiterate''. | ||