Terms Used In Delaware Code > Title 29 > Chapter 4 - Buildings and Grounds

• Agency: means any agency, board, department, bureau or commission of this State which receives an appropriation under the general appropriation act of the General Assembly. See Delaware Code Title 29 Sec. 5901
• 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.
• Authorization act: means an act of the General Assembly, concurred in by 3/4 of all the members of each House, appropriating funds of the State from the proceeds of bonds authorized to be issued by such act. See Delaware Code Title 29 Sec. 7401
• Bankruptcy: Refers to statutes and judicial proceedings involving persons or businesses that cannot pay their debts and seek the assistance of the court in getting a fresh start. Under the protection of the bankruptcy court, debtors may discharge their debts, perhaps by paying a portion of each debt. Bankruptcy judges preside over these proceedings.
• Beneficiary: A person who is entitled to receive the benefits or proceeds of a will, trust, insurance policy, retirement plan, annuity, or other contract. ^{Source: OCC}
• Board: means the Merit Employee Relations Board created by this chapter. See Delaware Code Title 29 Sec. 5901
• Bonds: means any bonds authorized to be issued by the State pursuant to an authorization act and to the payment of which the State has pledged its full faith and credit. See Delaware Code Title 29 Sec. 7401
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• 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.
• Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
• Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
• Department: means Department of Transportation. See Delaware Code Title 30 Sec. 5202
• Docket: A log containing brief entries of court proceedings.
• Documentary draft: means a draft to be presented for acceptance or payment if specified documents, certificated securities (Section 8-102) or instructions for uncertificated securities (Section 8-102), or other certificates, statements, or the like are to be received by the drawee or other payor before acceptance or payment of the draft. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 4-104
• Draft: means a draft as defined in Section 3-104 or an item, other than an instrument, that is an order. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 4-104
• Drawee: means a person ordered in a draft to make payment. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 4-104
• Fee simple: Absolute title to property with no limitations or restrictions regarding the person who may inherit it.
• 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.
• Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
• Goods: means all things that are movable at the time of identification to the lease contract, or are fixtures (Section 2A-309), but the term does not include money, documents, instruments, accounts, chattel paper, general intangibles, or minerals or the like, including oil and gas, before extraction. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 2A-103
• Highway: means the Delaware Turnpike and every way or place, of whatever nature, open to the use of the public as a matter of right for the purposes of vehicular travel. See Delaware Code Title 30 Sec. 5202
• Interest rate: The amount paid by a borrower to a lender in exchange for the use of the lender's money for a certain period of time. Interest is paid on loans or on debt instruments, such as notes or bonds, either at regular intervals or as part of a lump sum payment when the issue matures. ^{Source: OCC}
• Issuing officers: means the Governor, Secretary of State, State Treasurer and Secretary of Finance of the State. See Delaware Code Title 29 Sec. 7401
• last known address: shall mean the address determined under paragraph (b)(6)a. See Delaware Code Title 30 Sec. 502
• Lessee: means a person who acquires the right to possession and use of goods under a lease. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 2A-103
• Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
• Merit comparable positions: means those positions which for salary determination purposes, are assigned, pursuant to the State Budget Act, classification titles and/or pay grades that are comparable to the titles and/or pay grades of similar positions in the classified service. See Delaware Code Title 29 Sec. 5901
• Month: means a calendar month, unless otherwise expressed. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302
• Motor carrier: means every person who operates or causes to be operated any motor vehicle on any highway in this State. See Delaware Code Title 30 Sec. 5202
• Motor fuel: means :

  a. See Delaware Code Title 30 Sec. 5202

• Motor vehicle: means a motor vehicle used, designed or maintained for transportation of persons or property and:

  a. See Delaware Code Title 30 Sec. 5202

• Notes: means notes issued by the State in anticipation of the issuance of bonds authorized by an authorization act and to the payment of which the State has pledged its full faith and credit. See Delaware Code Title 29 Sec. 7401
• 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.
• Operations: means operations of all such motor vehicles whether loaded or empty, whether for compensation or not for compensation and whether owned by or leased to the motor carrier who operates them or causes them to be operated. See Delaware Code Title 30 Sec. 5202
• Oral argument: An opportunity for lawyers to summarize their position before the court and also to answer the judges' questions.
• Person: means and includes an individual, a trust, estate, partnership, association, company or corporation. See Delaware Code Title 30 Sec. 502
• Person: means a natural person, partnership (whether general or limited), limited liability company, trust (including a common law trust, business trust, statutory trust, voting trust or any other form of trust), estate, association (including any group, organization, co-tenancy, plan, board, council or committee), corporation, government (including a country, state, county or any other governmental subdivision, agency or instrumentality), custodian, nominee or any other individual or entity (or series thereof) in its own or any representative capacity, in each case, whether domestic or foreign. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 17-101
• Personal property: All property that is not real property.
• 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.
• Restitution: The court-ordered payment of money by the defendant to the victim for damages caused by the criminal action.
• Revenue notes: means notes issued by the State in anticipation of the receipt by the State of taxes and revenues payable to the State and the payment of which the State has pledged its full faith and credit. See Delaware Code Title 29 Sec. 7401
• Rules: means those rules adopted by the Board pursuant to this chapter. See Delaware Code Title 29 Sec. 5901
• Secretary: means the Secretary of the Department of Human Resources. See Delaware Code Title 29 Sec. 5901
• Secretary: means Secretary of Transportation. See Delaware Code Title 30 Sec. 5202
• State: means a state of the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, The United States Virgin Islands, or any territory or insular possession subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. See Delaware Code Title 30 Sec. 502
• State: means the District of Columbia or the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico or any state, territory, possession, or other jurisdiction of the United States other than the State of Delaware. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 17-101
• state service: means all positions of state employment other than the following positions, which are excluded:

  (1) Members of the General Assembly and others elected by popular vote and persons appointed to fill vacancies in elective offices. See Delaware Code Title 29 Sec. 5903

• Summons: Another word for subpoena used by the criminal justice system.
• Tax: shall be deemed also to refer to license fees imposed under Part III of this title. See Delaware Code Title 30 Sec. 502
• Taxable: means any person, fiduciary, association of persons, syndicate, joint venture or copartnership subject to making return or to payment of tax imposed by this title. See Delaware Code Title 30 Sec. 101
• 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}
• Writ: A formal written command, issued from the court, requiring the performance of a specific act.