Terms Used In Delaware Code > Title 3 > Chapter 73 > Subchapter I - Bovine Tuberculosis and Other Cattle Diseases

• Adjourn: A motion to adjourn a legislative chamber or a committee, if passed, ends that day's session.
• adult person: means a person of the age of 18 years or older. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302
• Affidavit: A written statement of facts confirmed by the oath of the party making it, before a notary or officer having authority to administer oaths.
• Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
• Apiary: means any place where one or more colonies of honey bees are kept. See Delaware Code Title 3 Sec. 7501
• 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.
• Appliances: means any apparatus, tools, machine, or other device used in the handling of bees, honey, wax and hives, and includes smokers, veils, gloves, hive tools, extractors, as well as any container of bees, honey or wax which may be used in an apiary or in transporting bees and their products. See Delaware Code Title 3 Sec. 7501
• Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
• Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.
• At large: means livestock that strays from confinement or restraint and from the property of the owner including livestock that strays into a confined area that is owned by a person other than the owner of the livestock. See Delaware Code Title 3 Sec. 7700
• Bee equipment: means hives, supers, frames, sections, wax foundation, wax, comb and honey. See Delaware Code Title 3 Sec. 7501
• Bees: means any stage of development of the common honey bee, Apis mellifera, or of any other bee species being transported into Delaware for any purpose. See Delaware Code Title 3 Sec. 7501
• Bequest: Property gifted by will.
• Colony: means the hive and its bees, comb and equipment. See Delaware Code Title 3 Sec. 7501
• Consumer: means any person who acquires eggs for consumption in the person's own household and not for resale. See Delaware Code Title 3 Sec. 3501
• Control: means to curb or hold in check and includes, but is not limited to, abatement, containment, eradication, extermination or suppression. See Delaware Code Title 3 Sec. 7501
• 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.
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
• Department: means the Department of Agriculture. See Delaware Code Title 3 Sec. 7401
• Department: means the Delaware Department of Agriculture. See Delaware Code Title 3 Sec. 7501
• Department: means the State Department of Agriculture. See Delaware Code Title 3 Sec. 7602
• Department: means the Department of Agriculture. See Delaware Code Title 3 Sec. 7700
• Devise: To gift property by will.
• Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
• Docket: A log containing brief entries of court proceedings.
• dollars: means lawful money of the United States. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302
• Eggs: means eggs in the shell that are the product of domesticated chickens. See Delaware Code Title 3 Sec. 3501
• Equine: includes all horses of every type and description. See Delaware Code Title 3 Sec. 7401
• 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}
• Eradication: means to burn or discard of bees, combs, and frames, or other equipment. See Delaware Code Title 3 Sec. 7501
• 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.
• Exotic mite: means Tropilaelaps clarae, Varroa jacobsoni, Varroa rindereri, Varroa sinhai, Varroa wongsirii, or other non-endemic species. See Delaware Code Title 3 Sec. 7501
• 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.
• Grade: means specifications defining the limits of variation in quality of eggs in such a manner as to differentiate among classes of eggs, and the letter, number or other symbol by which reference thereto may be made. See Delaware Code Title 3 Sec. 3501
• Hive: means frame hive, box hive, barrel, log gum, skep or any other container, or any part thereof, which may be used as a domicile for bees. See Delaware Code Title 3 Sec. 7501
• Inspector: means any qualified person who is appointed by the Department for the purpose of inspecting honey bee colonies. See Delaware Code Title 3 Sec. 7501
• Invasive plant: means any living part, cultivar, variety, species, or subspecies not native to Delaware identified by the Secretary as having the potential to do all of the following:

  a. See Delaware Code Title 3 Sec. 2902

• 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.
• 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.
• Livestock: means any cattle, sheep, swine, goats, horses, mules, other equines, poultry or cultured aquatic stock. See Delaware Code Title 3 Sec. 7602
• Livestock: means domesticated species including: bovine, camelid, cervid, equine, swine, ruminants, ratites, rabbits, poultry, and other animals harvested for food, fiber, fur, or leather. See Delaware Code Title 3 Sec. 7700
• Livestock dealer: means every recognized dealer engaged in the business of buying, selling or transporting livestock or operating a livestock auction or a livestock sales facility. See Delaware Code Title 3 Sec. 7602
• Market: means sell, offer for sale, give in the channels of commerce, barter, exchange, or distribute in any manner. See Delaware Code Title 3 Sec. 3501
• Mite: means Acarapis woodi, Varroa destructor. See Delaware Code Title 3 Sec. 7501
• Mite infestation: means the parasite or pathogen will threaten the colony health if action is not taken. See Delaware Code Title 3 Sec. 7501
• 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.
• Person: means any individual, producer, firm, partnership, exchange, association, trustee, receiver, corporation or any other entity and any member, officer, employee or agent thereof. See Delaware Code Title 3 Sec. 3501
• Person: includes veterinary practitioner, racetrack official, racing commission official, private horse owner, trainer, jockey or private person. See Delaware Code Title 3 Sec. 7401
• Person: means any individual, partnership, association, corporation or organized group of persons whether incorporated or not. See Delaware Code Title 3 Sec. 7602
• Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
• Remainder: An interest in property that takes effect in the future at a specified time or after the occurrence of some event, such as the death of a life tenant.
• Restitution: The court-ordered payment of money by the defendant to the victim for damages caused by the criminal action.
• Secretary: means the Secretary of the Delaware Department of Agriculture. See Delaware Code Title 3 Sec. 2902
• Secretary: means the Secretary of the State Department of Agriculture or the Secretary's designee. See Delaware Code Title 3 Sec. 7602
• 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
• Summons: Another word for subpoena used by the criminal justice system.
• Tort: A civil wrong or breach of a duty to another person, as outlined by law. A very common tort is negligent operation of a motor vehicle that results in property damage and personal injury in an automobile accident.
• Transcript: A written, word-for-word record of what was said, either in a proceeding such as a trial or during some other conversation, as in a transcript of a hearing or oral deposition.
• Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
• Unenclosed lands: means lands, other than the livestock owner's property, where the livestock would be able to run loose, free of confinement, or otherwise unrestrained by the livestock owner. See Delaware Code Title 3 Sec. 7700
• United States: includes its territories and possessions and the District of Columbia. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302
• Verdict: The decision of a petit jury or a judge.
• Writ: A formal written command, issued from the court, requiring the performance of a specific act.
• Year: means a calendar year, and is equivalent to the words "year of our Lord. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302