Terms Used In Indiana Code > Title 21 > Article 30 - State Educational Institutions: Donations; Gifts, Bequests, and Devises

• Annuity: A periodic (usually annual) payment of a fixed sum of money for either the life of the recipient or for a fixed number of years. A series of payments under a contract from an insurance company, a trust company, or an individual. Annuity payments are made at regular intervals over a period of more than one full year.
• appointing authority: means the head of a department, division, board, or commission, or an individual or group of individuals who have the power by law or by lawfully delegated authority to make appointments to positions in the state civil service. See Indiana Code 4-15-2.2-2
• Attorney: includes a counselor or other person authorized to appear and represent a party in an action or special proceeding. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
• commission: refers to the state employees appeals commission created by Indiana Code 4-15-2.2-5
• Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
• department: refers to the state personnel department established by section 13 of this chapter. See Indiana Code 4-15-2.2-6
• director: refers to the state personnel director appointed under section 14 of this chapter. See Indiana Code 4-15-2.2-7
• Donee: The recipient of a gift.
• Donor: The person who makes a gift.
• Judgment: means all final orders, decrees, and determinations in an action and all orders upon which executions may issue. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
• Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
• Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
• Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
• Property: includes personal and real property. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
• real property: include lands, tenements, and hereditaments. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
• Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
• state civil service: means public service by individuals who are subject to this chapter. See Indiana Code 4-15-2.2-10
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• Testator: A male person who leaves a will at death.