Terms Used In U.S. Code > Title 18 > Part III > Chapter 319 - National Institute of Corrections

• agency: includes any department, independent establishment, commission, administration, authority, board or bureau of the United States or any corporation in which the United States has a proprietary interest, unless the context shows that such term was intended to be used in a more limited sense. See 18 USC 6
• 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.
• department: means one of the executive departments enumerated in section 1 of Title 5, unless the context shows that such term was intended to describe the executive, legislative, or judicial branches of the government. See 18 USC 6
• Devise: To gift property by will.
• employer: includes any person acting directly or indirectly in the interest of an employer in relation to an employee or prospective employee. See 29 USC 2001
• Ex officio: Literally, by virtue of one's office.
• individual: shall include every infant member of the species homo sapiens who is born alive at any stage of development. See 1 USC 8
• organization: means a person other than an individual. See 18 USC 18
• Personal property: All property that is not real property.
• polygraph: means an instrument that&mdash. See 29 USC 2001
• Probation: A sentencing alternative to imprisonment in which the court releases convicted defendants under supervision as long as certain conditions are observed.
• Secretary: means the Secretary of Labor. See 29 USC 2001
• United States: as used in this title in a territorial sense, includes all places and waters, continental or insular, subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, except the Canal Zone. See 18 USC 5