Terms Used In Delaware Code > Title 22 > Chapter 5 - Parking Authorities

• Affirmed: In the practice of the appellate courts, the decree or order is declared valid and will stand as rendered in the lower court.
• 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.
• 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.
• Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
• Authority: means a body politic and corporate created pursuant to this chapter. See Delaware Code Title 22 Sec. 502
• Board: means the governing body of the authority. See Delaware Code Title 22 Sec. 502
• Bonds: means and includes the notes, bonds and other evidence of indebtedness or obligations which the authority is authorized to issue pursuant to § 504 of this title. See Delaware Code Title 22 Sec. 502
• Charter amendment: means language which will amend, adopt or repeal a municipal charter. See Delaware Code Title 22 Sec. 801
• Chief executive officer: means the mayor if such there be or, if there be none, then it means the president of the legislative body of a municipal corporation or, if there be none, then it means the presiding officer of the legislative body of a municipal corporation. See Delaware Code Title 22 Sec. 801
• City: means incorporated city or town. See Delaware Code Title 22 Sec. 502
• Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
• Construction: means and includes acquisition and construction, and "to construct" means and includes to acquire and to construct, all in such manner as may be deemed desirable. See Delaware Code Title 22 Sec. 502
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
• facilities: means lot or lots, buildings and structures above, at or below the surface of the earth, including equipment, entrances, exits, fencing and all other accessories necessary or desirable for the safety and convenience of the parking of vehicles. See Delaware Code Title 22 Sec. 502
• Fair market value: The price at which an asset would change hands in a transaction between a willing, informed buyer and a willing, informed seller.
• Federal agency: means and includes the United States of America, the President of the United States of America and any department or corporation agency or instrumentality heretofore or hereafter created, designated or established by the United States of America. See Delaware Code Title 22 Sec. 502
• Fee simple: Absolute title to property with no limitations or restrictions regarding the person who may inherit it.
• Improvement: means and includes extension, enlargement and improvement, and "to improve" means and includes to extend, to enlarge and to improve, all in such manner as may be deemed desirable. See Delaware Code Title 22 Sec. 502
• Indemnification: In general, a collateral contract or assurance under which one person agrees to secure another person against either anticipated financial losses or potential adverse legal consequences. ^{Source: FDIC}
• 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}
• Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
• Life estate: A property interest limited in duration to the life of the individual holding the interest (life tenant).
• Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
• Mortgagee: The person to whom property is mortgaged and who has loaned the money.
• Municipal corporation: includes all cities, towns and villages created before or after December 28, 1961, under any general or special law of this State for general governmental purposes which possess legislative, administrative and police powers for the general exercise of municipal functions and which carry on such functions through a set of elected and other officials. See Delaware Code Title 22 Sec. 801
• Municipality: means any county, incorporated city or incorporated town of this State. See Delaware Code Title 22 Sec. 502
• 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.
• Personal property: All property that is not real property.
• Persons: means and includes natural persons. See Delaware Code Title 22 Sec. 502
• Presiding officer: A majority-party Senator who presides over the Senate and is charged with maintaining order and decorum, recognizing Members to speak, and interpreting the Senate's rules, practices and precedents.
• Project: means any structure, facility or undertaking which the authority is authorized to acquire, construct, improve, maintain or operate under this chapter. See Delaware Code Title 22 Sec. 502
• Qualified voter: means those persons who, under the terms of a municipal charter, shall be authorized to vote in elections within that municipal corporation. See Delaware Code Title 22 Sec. 801
• Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
• real property: is synonymous with the phrase "lands, tenements and hereditaments. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302
• Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
• Service of process: The service of writs or summonses to the appropriate party.
• Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• Summons: Another word for subpoena used by the criminal justice system.
• Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
• Transcript: A written, word-for-word record of what was said, either in a proceeding such as a trial or during some other conversation, as in a transcript of a hearing or oral deposition.
• Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
• 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}
• United States: includes its territories and possessions and the District of Columbia. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302
• Writ: A formal written command, issued from the court, requiring the performance of a specific act.
• Writ of certiorari: An order issued by the Supreme Court directing the lower court to transmit records for a case for which it will hear on appeal.
• Year: means a calendar year, and is equivalent to the words "year of our Lord. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302