Terms Used In Delaware Code > Title 5 > Chapter 27 > Subchapter III - Regulatory Provisions

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Bonds: means any bonds, interim certificates, notes, debentures or other obligations of a company issued under this chapter. See Delaware Code Title 22 Sec. 1302
• Commissioner: means the State Bank Commissioner. See Delaware Code Title 5 Sec. 2701
• Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
• Continuance: Putting off of a hearing ot trial until a later time.
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Contracting municipality: means a municipality which contracts to establish an electric company under this chapter. See Delaware Code Title 22 Sec. 1302
• 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.
• Department: means the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control, unless stated otherwise in this chapter. See Delaware Code Title 23 Sec. 2112
• Escrow: Money given to a third party to be held for payment until certain conditions are met.
• 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.
• Fair market value: The price at which an asset would change hands in a transaction between a willing, informed buyer and a willing, informed seller.
• 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.
• Fish and Wildlife Agent: means a law-enforcement officer employed by the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control pursuant to this title and § 8003(13) of Title 29. See Delaware Code Title 23 Sec. 2112
• 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.
• Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
• Licensee: means a licensed casher of checks, drafts or money orders. See Delaware Code Title 5 Sec. 2701
• Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
• Mobile unit: means any vehicle or other movable means from which the business of cashing checks, drafts or money orders is to be conducted. See Delaware Code Title 5 Sec. 2701
• Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
• Municipal electric company: means a public corporation created by contract between 2 or more municipalities under this chapter. See Delaware Code Title 22 Sec. 1302
• Municipality: means any incorporated town or city of this State. See Delaware Code Title 22 Sec. 1001
• Municipality: means a city or town. See Delaware Code Title 22 Sec. 1302
• 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.
• 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 a natural person, a public agency, cooperative or private corporation, association, firm, statutory trust, partnership or business trust of any nature whatsoever, organized and existing under the laws of any state or of the United States. See Delaware Code Title 22 Sec. 1302
• Personal property: All property that is not real property.
• Physical injury: means impairment of physical condition or substantial pain. See Delaware Code Title 23 Sec. 2112
• Probable cause: A reasonable ground for belief that the offender violated a specific law.
• Probation: A sentencing alternative to imprisonment in which the court releases convicted defendants under supervision as long as certain conditions are observed.
• Project: means any plant, works, system, facilities and real and personal property of any nature whatsoever, together with all parts thereof and appurtenances thereto, used or useful in the generation, production, transmission, distribution, purchase, sale, exchange or interchange of electric power and energy, or any interest therein or right to capacity thereof and the acquisition of fuel of any kind for any such purposes, including, but not limited to, the acquisition of fuel deposits and the acquisition or construction and operation of facilities for extracting fuel from natural deposits, for converting it for use in another form, for burning it in place, for transportation, storage and reprocessing or for any energy conservation measure which involves public education or the actual fitting and application of a device. See Delaware Code Title 22 Sec. 1302
• Public agency: means any municipality or other municipal corporation, political subdivision, government unit or public corporation created under the laws of this State or of another state or of the United States, and any state or the United States, and any person, board or other body declared by the laws of any state or the United States to be a department, agency or instrumentality thereof. See Delaware Code Title 22 Sec. 1302
• Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
• real property: is synonymous with the phrase "lands, tenements and hereditaments. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302
• Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
• 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 Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control, unless otherwise stated in this chapter. See Delaware Code Title 23 Sec. 2112
• Serious physical injury: means physical injury which creates a substantial risk of death, or which causes serious and prolonged disfigurement, prolonged impairment of health or prolonged loss or impairment of the function of any bodily organ. See Delaware Code Title 23 Sec. 2112
• 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 State of Delaware. See Delaware Code Title 23 Sec. 2112
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• Trial: A hearing that takes place when the defendant pleads "not guilty" and witnesses are required to come to court to give evidence.
• Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
• United States: includes its territories and possessions and the District of Columbia. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302
• Vessel: shall mean every description of watercraft, other than a seaplane, used or capable of being used as a means of transportation on water or ice. See Delaware Code Title 23 Sec. 2112
• Waterway management: means those activities necessary to provide for the planning, surveying, design, engineering and construction, or other activities directly related to the maintenance of public waterways, including dredging, channel marking, debris and derelict vessel/structure removal, the beneficial use of sediment, and shoreline and bathymetric survey work for commercial or recreational waterways. See Delaware Code Title 23 Sec. 2112
• Year: means a calendar year, and is equivalent to the words "year of our Lord. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302