Terms Used In Delaware Code > Title 3 > Chapter 12 > Subchapter V - Inspection and Seizure

• Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
• Business: includes every trade, occupation and profession, the holding or ownership of property and any other activity for profit. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 15-101
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Distribution: means a transfer of money or other property from a partnership to a partner in the partner's capacity as a partner or to a transferee of all or a part of a partner's economic interest. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 15-101
• Economic interest: means a partner's share of the profits and losses of a partnership and the partner's right to receive distributions. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 15-101
• 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}
• 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.
• Knowledge: means a person's actual knowledge of a fact, rather than the person's constructive knowledge of the fact. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 17-101
• Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
• Limited liability partnership: means a domestic partnership that has filed a statement of qualification under § 15-1001 of this title. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 15-101
• 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.
• Partner: means a person who is admitted to a partnership as a partner of the partnership. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 15-101
• Partnership: means an association of 2 or more persons formed under § 15-202 of this title, predecessor law or comparable law of another jurisdiction to carry on any business, purpose or activity. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 15-101
• Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
• Partnership agreement: means the agreement, whether written, oral or implied, among the partners concerning the partnership, including amendments to the partnership agreement. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 15-101
• Partnership at will: means a partnership that is not a partnership for a definite term or particular undertaking. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 15-101
• Partnership for a definite term or particular undertaking: means a partnership in which the partners have agreed to remain partners until the expiration of a definite term or the completion of a particular undertaking. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 15-101
• Partnership interest: means a partner's share of the profits and losses of a limited partnership and the right to receive distributions of partnership assets. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 17-101
• 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. 15-101
• Property: means all property, real, personal or mixed, tangible or intangible, or any interest therein. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 15-101
• Prosecute: To charge someone with a crime. A prosecutor tries a criminal case on behalf of the government.
• 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.
• 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 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. 15-101
• Statement: means a statement of partnership existence under § 15-303 of this title, a statement of denial under § 15-304 of this title, a statement of dissociation under § 15-704 of this title, a statement of dissolution under § 15-805 of this title, a statement of qualification under § 15-1001 of this title, a statement of foreign qualification under § 15-1102 of this title, and an amendment or cancellation of any of the foregoing under § 15-105 of this title and a statement of correction and a corrected statement under § 15-118 of this title. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 15-101
• Transfer: includes an assignment, conveyance, lease, mortgage, deed, and encumbrance. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 15-101
• Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
• Year: means a calendar year, and is equivalent to the words "year of our Lord. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302