A work credit is typically a one quarter of a year period of time that a person performs work. Its importance is with regard to eligibility requirements for Social Security benefits, including disability, retirement, depends and survivors benefits. An eligible person must accumulate a sufficient number of work credits to be eligible to receive benefits. … [Read more...] about WORK CREDITS
WOMENS SUFFRAGE
Womens' right to vote which was granted in 1920 pursuant to the Nineteenth Amendment. … [Read more...] about WOMENS SUFFRAGE
WORK MADE FOR HIRE
An exception to the general rule of copyright where a person who creates a work of authorship is the legally recognized owner of the work. The parties can agree, based upon a written agreement, that a work prepared by an independent contractor shall be given the same effect as an employer owned the work of an employee. Thus the author and copyright owner of the work is the … [Read more...] about WORK MADE FOR HIRE
WOODS
A forest; land covered with a large and thick collection of natural forest trees. The old books say that a grant of "all his woods'" (omnes boscos suos) will pass the land, as well as the trees growing upon It Co. Litt 4b. See Averitt v. Murrell, 49 N. C. 323; Hall v. Cranford, 60 N. C. 3; Achenbach Johnston, 84 N. C. 204. … [Read more...] about WOODS
WOOD-STREET COMPTER
The name of an old prison in London. … [Read more...] about WOOD-STREET COMPTER