Terms Used In Delaware Code > Title 25 > Chapter 40 - Rights and Title to Abandoned Personal Property

• Answer: The formal written statement by a defendant responding to a civil complaint and setting forth the grounds for defense.
• 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.
• Applicant: means any person, individual, natural person who seeks to become licensed as a manufactured housing installer. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 4403
• Authorized inspection agency: means a state, county, or municipal administrative department or agency, or other instrumentality of the State of Delaware, that has been assigned the function of inspecting manufactured home installations to ensure compliance with this chapter and the Board's rules and regulations or inspectors hired by the State, county or municipal administrative department or agency on a contract basis to perform inspections. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 4403
• Board: means the Manufactured Home Installation Board. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 4403
• Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
• Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
• Division: means the Division of Professional Regulation. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 4403
• 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.
• Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
• Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
• Infant: means a person who has not reached the age of 18 years. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302
• Installation: means the assembly of manufactured homes on site and the process of affixing manufactured homes to the land by the use of a foundation, footings, utilities, or to an existing building. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 4403
• Installation instructions: means written instructions provided by the manufacturer in the installation manual, or equivalent, which accompanies each manufactured home when it leaves the factory, and that detail the manufacturers requirements for ground support, anchoring systems, and other work to be completed on site during the installation process. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 4403
• Installer: means any person who is engaged in the business of performing manufactured housing installations as they are defined above. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 4403
• Intestate: Dying without leaving a will.
• 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.
• Licensee: means any person who has completed the required training and who has paid the applicable fee for and received a license, under this chapter, for the installation of manufactured housing. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 4403
• Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
• Manufactured home installation inspector: means any person who holds a manufactured home installation inspector's certificate issued pursuant to this chapter. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 4403
• Person: means an individual, firm, partnership, corporation, association, joint stock company, limited partnership, limited liability company and any other legal entity and includes a legal successor of those entities. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 4403
• Personal property: All property that is not real property.
• Substantially related: means the nature of the criminal conduct, for which the person was convicted, has a direct bearing on the person's fitness or ability to perform 1 or more of the duties or responsibilities necessarily related to the work of a manufactured home installer. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 4403
• Supervision: means managing the acts of another by overseeing the performance or operation of the person and by taking full responsibility for acts or omissions of the person that are being performed at the direction of a licensee or under the authority of a licensee's license. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 4403
• 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.