A search of public land records prior to the issuance of title to determine whether the current owner of real property has good and clear title to the property. … [Read more...]

In English law. The tenth part of the increase, yearly arising and renewing from the profits of lands, the stock upon lands, and the personal industry of the inhabitants. 2 Bl. Comm. 24. A species of Incorporeal hereditament, being an ecclesiastical inheritance collateral to the estate of the land, and due only to an ecclesiastical person by ecclesiastical law. 1 Crabb, Real … [Read more...]

Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. It prohibits employment discrimination against suspect classes which are race, color, creed / religion, national origin, gender and pregnancy. … [Read more...]

One of the civil divisions of England, being a portion of that greater division called a "hundred." It was so called because ten freeholders with their families composed one. It is said that they were all knit together in one society, and bound to the king for the peaceable behavior of each other. In each of these societies there was. one chief or principal person, who, from … [Read more...]

In Spanish law. Title. White, New Recop. b. 1, tit 5, c 3, … [Read more...]