Terms Used In Delaware Code > Title 9 > Chapter 15 > Subchapter III - Authorized Appropriations

• Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
• commodity in package form: means commodity put up or packaged in any manner in advance of sale in units suitable for either wholesale or retail sale, exclusive, however of an auxiliary shipping container enclosing packages that individually conform to the requirements of this chapter. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 5101
• Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
• Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
• Document: means :

  a. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 17-101

• Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
• Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
• inspector: means a state inspector of weights and measures. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 5101
• State: means the District of Columbia or the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico or any state, territory, possession, or other jurisdiction of the United States other than the State of Delaware. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 17-101
• United States: includes its territories and possessions and the District of Columbia. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302
• weight: as used in this chapter in connection with any commodity shall mean net weight. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 5122