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The state in which a computer is not connected to a network or the Internet. May also include paper documents or other physical things that are not stored or accessible on the Internet. … [Read more...]

OLD TENURES

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A treatise, so called to distinguish it from Littleton's book on the same subject, which gives an account of the various tenures by which land was holden, the nature of estates, and some other incidents to landed property in the reign of Edward III. It is a very scanty tract, but nas the merit of having led the way to Littleton's famous work. 3 Reeve, Eng. Law, 151. … [Read more...]

OFFSET

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A deduction; a counterclaim; a contrary claim or demand by which a given claim may be lessened or canceled. See Leonard r. Charter Oak L. Ins. Co., 65 Conn. 529, 33 Ati. 511; Cable Flax Mills v. Early, 72 App. Div. 213, 76 N. Y. Supp. 191. The more usual form of the word is "set-off" … [Read more...]

OLDER WORKERS BENEFIT PROTECTION ACT

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Federal law prohibiting an employer from using an employee's age as a basis for discrimination with regard to benefits or for layoffs on the basis of age. It also requires employers to allow employees at least 21 days to consider compensation packages for early retirement benefits in exchange for a waiver (or a promise) not to sue the employer. … [Read more...]

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In a foreign country, in a place that is not within one's own country or its shores. … [Read more...]

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