Terms Used In Illinois Compiled Statutes > 215 ILCS 5 > Article IIB - Domestic Stock Company Division

• Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
• 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.
• Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
• Appraisal: A determination of property value.
• Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
• Assets: means all assets or property, whether real, personal or mixed, tangible or intangible, and any right or interest therein, including all rights under contracts and other agreements. See Illinois Compiled Statutes 215 ILCS 5/35B-10
• Capital: means the capital stock component of statutory surplus, as defined in the National Association of Insurance Commissioners Accounting Practices and Procedures Manual, version effective January 1, 2001, and subsequent revisions. See Illinois Compiled Statutes 215 ILCS 5/35B-10
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• 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.
• division: means the act by operation of law by which a domestic stock company divides into 2 or more resulting companies in accordance with a plan of division and this Article;
       "Dividing company" means a domestic stock company that approves a plan of division pursuant to Section 35B-20;
       "Domestic stock company" means a domestic stock company transacting or being organized to transact any of the kinds of insurance business enumerated in Section 4. See Illinois Compiled Statutes 215 ILCS 5/35B-10
• 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.
• Guarantor: A party who agrees to be responsible for the payment of another party's debts should that party default. ^{Source: OCC}
• Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
• Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). ^{Source: OCC}
• Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
• Liability: means a liability or obligation of any kind, character, or description, whether known or unknown, absolute or contingent, accrued or unaccrued, disputed or undisputed, liquidated or unliquidated, secured or unsecured, joint or several, due or to become due, determined, determinable, or otherwise. See Illinois Compiled Statutes 215 ILCS 5/35B-10
• Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
• New company: means a domestic stock company that is created by a division occurring on or after the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 100th General Assembly. See Illinois Compiled Statutes 215 ILCS 5/35B-10
• 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.
• Plan of division: means a plan of division approved by a dividing company in accordance Section 35B-20. See Illinois Compiled Statutes 215 ILCS 5/35B-10
• Recorder: means the office of the recorder of the county where the principal office of a domestic stock company is located. See Illinois Compiled Statutes 215 ILCS 5/35B-10
• Resulting company: means a domestic stock company created by a division or a dividing company that survives a division. See Illinois Compiled Statutes 215 ILCS 5/35B-10
• Shareholder: means the person in whose name shares are registered in the records of a corporation or the beneficial owner of shares to the extent of the rights granted by a nominee certificate on file with a corporation. See Illinois Compiled Statutes 215 ILCS 5/35B-10
• signature: includes a manual, facsimile, or conformed or electronic signature. See Illinois Compiled Statutes 215 ILCS 5/35B-10
• State: when applied to different parts of the United States, may be construed to include the District of Columbia and the several territories, and the words "United States" may be construed to include the said district and territories. See Illinois Compiled Statutes 5 ILCS 70/1.14
• Surplus: means total statutory surplus less capital, calculated in accordance with the National Association of Insurance Commissioners Accounting Practices and Procedures Manual, version effective January 1, 2001, and subsequent revisions. See Illinois Compiled Statutes 215 ILCS 5/35B-10
• Transfer: includes an assignment, assumption, conveyance, sale, lease, encumbrance, including a mortgage or security interest, gift, or transfer by operation of law. See Illinois Compiled Statutes 215 ILCS 5/35B-10
• Uniform Commercial Code: A set of statutes enacted by the various states to provide consistency among the states' commercial laws. It includes negotiable instruments, sales, stock transfers, trust and warehouse receipts, and bills of lading. ^{Source: OCC}