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...]

In Saxon law. This was the name of the head or chief of a decennary. In modern English law, he is the same as an under-constable or peace-officer. In modern law. A constable. "After the introduction of justices of the peace, the offices of constable and tithing-man became so similar that we now regard them as precisely the same." Willc, Const. Introd. In New England. A parish … [Read more...]

Persons who in Scotland, after the Reformation, obtained grants from the crown of the monasteries and priories then erected into temporal lordships. Thus the titles formerly held by the religions houses, as well as the property of die lands, were conferred on these grantees, who were also called 'lords of erection" and "titulars of the teinds." Bell. … [Read more...]