Terms Used In Delaware Code > Title 16 > Chapter 12 > Subchapter III - Medical Examinations

• 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.
• Health-care practitioner: means as defined in § 701 of this title. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 1220
• Health-care professional: means as defined in § 701 of this title. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 1220
• Informed consent: means the signing of a consent form by the patient or a person authorized to make health care decision on behalf of the patient that satisfies all of the following conditions:

  a. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 1220

• 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.
• Office: means the Office of the State Fire Marshal. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 6402
• Pleadings: Written statements of the parties in a civil case of their positions. In the federal courts, the principal pleadings are the complaint and the answer.
• State: means the State of Delaware; and when applied to different parts of the United States, it includes the District of Columbia and the several territories and possessions of the United States. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302