enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. List of words having different meanings in American and ...

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_words_having...

    a style of house, usu. a ranch-style house (see also Rambler (automobile), Nash Rambler) randy a slang term meaning sexually aroused (American horny) * a male or female given name or nickname deriving from the names Randall, Randolph, or Miranda range: a line, collection, etc. of products or merchandise, as in top of the range (US: top of the line)

  3. List of police-related slang terms - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_police-related...

    A term which indicates a law-enforcement officer approaching the speaker's vicinity. Taken from the Spanish word for "ugly", this slang term is exclusively used by the Puerto Rican and Dominican communities of Philadelphia and (to a lesser extent) New York City, United States. [citation needed] Filth Normally "The Filth", UK, the police.

  4. Hudson County Courthouse - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hudson_County_Courthouse

    The Courthouse was designed by Jersey City native Hugh Roberts, twice a president of the New Jersey Chapter of the American Institute of Architects. [6] Roberts, brother-in-law of future United States Senator and New Jersey Governor Edward I. Edwards, received a direct appointment as architect.

  5. New Jersey General Assembly - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Jersey_General_Assembly

    The New Jersey General Assembly is the lower house of the New Jersey Legislature.. Since the election of 1967 (1968 session), the Assembly has consisted of 80 members. Two members are elected from each of New Jersey's 40 legislative districts for a term of two years, each representing districts with average populations of 232,225 (2020 figures), with deviation in each district not exceeding 3. ...

  6. Exchange Place, Jersey City - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exchange_Place,_Jersey_City

    Exchange Place is a district of Downtown Jersey City, New Jersey that is sometimes referred to as Wall Street West due to the concentration of financial companies that have offices there. The namesake is a square, about 200 feet long, at the foot of Montgomery Street at the waterfront of the Hudson River .

  7. List of county courthouses in New Jersey - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_county_courthouses...

    There are 21 counties in the state of New Jersey. The New Jersey Superior Court subsumed and replaced the New Jersey County Courts, which were abolished in 1978. [ 1 ] The Superior Court has 15 vicinages (jurisdictional districts or circuits ), some encompassing two or three counties, each of which has its own courthouse or courthouses.

  8. Mount Laurel doctrine - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Laurel_doctrine

    The New Jersey Supreme Court was aware that the Mount Laurel II decision would be controversial and would engender debate about the proper role of the courts. The opinion invited legislative action to implement what the court defined as the constitutional obligation. In 1985 the New Jersey Legislature responded by passing the Fair Housing Act.

  9. Communipaw - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communipaw

    Communipaw is a neighborhood in Jersey City in Hudson County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. [2] It is located west of Liberty State Park and east of Bergen Hill, [3] [4] and the site of one of the earliest European settlements in North America.