Terms Used In Delaware Code > Title 23 > Chapter 21 > Subchapter II - Registration, Equipment and Operation

• Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.
• Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
• Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
• 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 the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control, unless stated otherwise in this chapter. See Delaware Code Title 23 Sec. 2112
• 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.
• 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.
• Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
• Fish and Wildlife Agent: means a law-enforcement officer employed by the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control pursuant to this title and § 8003(13) of Title 29. See Delaware Code Title 23 Sec. 2112
• 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.
• Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
• 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.
• Physical injury: means impairment of physical condition or substantial pain. See Delaware Code Title 23 Sec. 2112
• Probable cause: A reasonable ground for belief that the offender violated a specific law.
• 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.
• Secretary: means the Secretary of the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control, unless otherwise stated in this chapter. See Delaware Code Title 23 Sec. 2112
• Serious physical injury: means physical injury which creates a substantial risk of death, or which causes serious and prolonged disfigurement, prolonged impairment of health or prolonged loss or impairment of the function of any bodily organ. See Delaware Code Title 23 Sec. 2112
• 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
• State: means the State of Delaware. See Delaware Code Title 23 Sec. 2112
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• Trial: A hearing that takes place when the defendant pleads "not guilty" and witnesses are required to come to court to give evidence.
• United States: includes its territories and possessions and the District of Columbia. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302
• Vessel: shall mean every description of watercraft, other than a seaplane, used or capable of being used as a means of transportation on water or ice. See Delaware Code Title 23 Sec. 2112
• Waterway management: means those activities necessary to provide for the planning, surveying, design, engineering and construction, or other activities directly related to the maintenance of public waterways, including dredging, channel marking, debris and derelict vessel/structure removal, the beneficial use of sediment, and shoreline and bathymetric survey work for commercial or recreational waterways. See Delaware Code Title 23 Sec. 2112
• Year: means a calendar year, and is equivalent to the words "year of our Lord. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302