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Also known as the Federal WARN Act (Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act of 1988). It requires most employers with at least 100 employees to provide no less than 60 calendar days advance notice to employees of the termination of their employment or a reduction in at least 50% of work hours. … [Read more...] about WORKER ADJUSTMENT AND RETRAINING NOTIFICATION ACT

ed. jur. This term, in legal medicine, comprehends all lesions of the body, and in this it differs from the meaning of the word when used in surgery. The latter only refers to a solution of continuity, while the former comprises not only these, but also every other kind of accident, such as bruises, contusions, fractures, dislocations, and the like. In criminal cases, the … [Read more...] about WOUND

In old English law. This term was used as descriptive of the condition of an outlaw. Such persons were said to carry a wolf's head, (caput lupinum;) for if caught alive they were to be brought to the king, and if they defended themselves they might be slain and their heads carried to the king, for they were no more to be accounted of than wolves. Termes de la Ley, Woolferthfod. … [Read more...] about WOLF’S HEAD

The seat of the lord chancellor of England In the house of lords, being a large square bag of wool, without back or arms, covered with red cloth. Webster; Brande. … [Read more...] about WOOL-SACK

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...] about WOMEN