A program providing financial benefits to those who are injured on the job, helping with medical expenses and lost income that result. The amounts are generally modest and designed to compense the employee and/or the employees family and preventing the employee from suing the employer for injury or death as a result of being on the job. … [Read more...]
WOUNDING
An aggravated species of assault and battery, consisting in one person giving another some dangerous hur. Causing harm or an injury to a person or a live animal. Wreccum maris significat ilia bona quae naufragio ad terram pelluntur. A wreck of the sea signifies those goods which are driven to shore from a shipwreck. … [Read more...]
WOMEN
persons. In its most enlarged sense, this word signifies all the females of the human species; but in a more restricted sense, it means all such females who have arrived at the age of puberty. … [Read more...]
WORD
construction. One or more syllables which when united convey an idea a single part of speech. 2. Words are to be understood in a proper or figurative sense, and they are used both ways in law. They are also used in a technical sense. It is a general rule that contracts and wills shall be construed as the parties understood them; every person, however, is presumed to understand … [Read more...]
Women’s Rts. L. Rep.
Women's Rights Law Reporter … [Read more...]