Terms Used In Delaware Code > Title 31 > Chapter 40 > Subchapter I - Definitions, Purpose and Powers

• Area: means the State. See Delaware Code Title 31 Sec. 4001
• Authority: means a public body corporate or politic, organized in accordance with Chapter 43 or 45 of this title for a purpose, with the powers and subject to the restrictions set forth in those chapters, including a community exercising the powers and duties of a slum clearance and redevelopment authority; provided however, that "Authority" shall not mean the Delaware State Housing Authority. See Delaware Code Title 31 Sec. 4001
• Community: means any municipality or county in this State. See Delaware Code Title 31 Sec. 4001
• 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.
• Council: means the State Council on Housing. See Delaware Code Title 31 Sec. 4001
• Director: means Secretary of the Department of Health and Social Services. See Delaware Code Title 31 Sec. 101
• DSHA: means the Delaware State Housing Authority created by § 4010 of this title. See Delaware Code Title 31 Sec. 4001
• Equitable: Pertaining to civil suits in "equity" rather than in "law." In English legal history, the courts of "law" could order the payment of damages and could afford no other remedy. See damages. A separate court of "equity" could order someone to do something or to cease to do something. See, e.g., injunction. In American jurisprudence, the federal courts have both legal and equitable power, but the distinction is still an important one. For example, a trial by jury is normally available in "law" cases but not in "equity" cases. ^{Source: U.S. Courts}
• Government: includes the State and federal governments and any subdivision, agency or instrumentality, corporate or otherwise, of either of them. See Delaware Code Title 31 Sec. 4001
• Housing development: means living accommodations provided or to be provided pursuant to this chapter for 2 or more families by a housing sponsor. See Delaware Code Title 31 Sec. 4001
• Housing Director: means the Housing Director appointed pursuant to § 8603 of Title 29. See Delaware Code Title 31 Sec. 4001
• Housing sponsor: means individuals, public bodies, joint ventures, partnerships, limited partnerships, trusts, firms, associations or other legal entities or any combination thereof, corporations, cooperatives and condominiums, approved by DSHA, as qualified, either to own, construct, acquire, rehabilitate, operate, manage or maintain a housing development whether nonprofit or organized for limited profit and subject to the regulatory powers of DSHA and other terms and conditions set forth in this chapter. See Delaware Code Title 31 Sec. 4001
• Issuing officer: means the Housing Director. See Delaware Code Title 31 Sec. 4001
• Land development: means the process of acquiring land for residential housing construction, and of making, installing or constructing nonresidential housing improvements including, without limitation, waterlines and water supply installations, sewer lines and sewage disposal installations, steam, gas and electric lines and installations, roads, streets, curbs, gutters, sidewalks, whether on or off the site, which DSHA deems necessary or desirable to prepare such land for residential housing within this State. See Delaware Code Title 31 Sec. 4001
• 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.
• Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
• Mortgage: means any instrument which secures an obligation and constitutes a lien on real property or on a leasehold under a lease having a remaining term, at the time such mortgage is acquired, which does not expire for at least that number of years beyond the maturity date of the obligation secured by such mortgage as is equal to the number of years remaining until the maturity date of such obligation. See Delaware Code Title 31 Sec. 4001
• Mortgage loan: means an interest-bearing obligation secured by a mortgage, and a note or bond which is a first lien on land and improvements in the State constituting single family or multi-family units. See Delaware Code Title 31 Sec. 4001
• Mortgage loan: A loan made by a lender to a borrower for the financing of real property. ^{Source: OCC}
• Municipality: means any city, town or county in the State. See Delaware Code Title 31 Sec. 4001
• 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.
• Public body: means the State or any municipality, county, township, board, commission, authority, district or any other subdivision or public body of this State. See Delaware Code Title 31 Sec. 4001
• Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
• Real property: includes all lands, including improvements and fixtures thereon, and property of any nature appurtenant thereto or used in connection therewith, and every estate, interest and right, legal or equitable, therein, including terms for years and liens by way of judgment, mortgage or otherwise and the indebtedness secured by such liens. See Delaware Code Title 31 Sec. 4001
• 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
• United States: includes its territories and possessions and the District of Columbia. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302