SIMILARLY SITUATED

A term used to mean alike or similar in all relevant ways and typically used in discrimination cases to illustrate unfair treatment between two employees where there is no reasonable explanation for their being treated differently except for the defendant employer's bias. … [Read more...] about SIMILARLY SITUATED

This word is often used to denote a partial resemblance only; but it is also often used to denote sameness in all essential particulars. Thus, a statutory provision in relation to "previous conviction of a similar offense" may mean conviction of an offense Identical in kind Com. v. Fontaln, 127 Mass. 454. … [Read more...] about SIMILAR

In the civil law. That kind of wood which was kept for the purpose of being cut In English law. Under wood; coppice wood. 2 Inst 642; Cowell. All small wood and under timber, and likewise timber when cut down, under twenty years' growth; titheable wood. 3 Salk. 347. … [Read more...] about SILVA CAEDUA

Latin: In the civil law. Wood; a wood. … [Read more...] about SILVA

Used especially of the gowns worn in England by king's counsel; hence, "to take silk" means to attain the rank of king's counsel. Mozley & Whitley. … [Read more...] about SILK GOWN