Terms Used In California Codes > Financial Code > Division 1.6 > Chapter 4 > Article 1 - Merger Into California State Depository Corporation

• Agreement of merger: includes a certificate of ownership executed pursuant to §. See California Financial Code 4880
• department: means State Department of Health Services. See California Health and Safety Code 20
• Equitable: Pertaining to civil suits in "equity" rather than in "law." In English legal history, the courts of "law" could order the payment of damages and could afford no other remedy. See damages. A separate court of "equity" could order someone to do something or to cease to do something. See, e.g., injunction. In American jurisprudence, the federal courts have both legal and equitable power, but the distinction is still an important one. For example, a trial by jury is normally available in "law" cases but not in "equity" cases. ^{Source: U.S. Courts}
• Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
• Merger: means any of the mergers described in Section 4881. See California Financial Code 4880
• Precedent: A court decision in an earlier case with facts and law similar to a dispute currently before a court. Precedent will ordinarily govern the decision of a later similar case, unless a party can show that it was wrongly decided or that it differed in some significant way.
• State: means the State of California, unless applied to the different parts of the United States. See California Health and Safety Code 23
• Writing: includes any form of recorded message capable of comprehension by ordinary visual means. See California Financial Code 8