Terms Used In Delaware Code > Title 6 > Article 7 - Documents of Title

• 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.
• Bailee: means a person that by a warehouse receipt, bill of lading, or other document of title acknowledges possession of goods and contracts to deliver them. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 7-102
• Broadcast: means the transmission of information by means of radio or television facilities. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 3801
• Business day: means any day except a Sunday or legal holiday. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 4202
• Buyer: means a natural person who enters into a health spa contract. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 4202
• Carrier: means a person that issues a bill of lading. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 7-102
• Clinically ill: means an illness that is apparent to a licensed veterinarian based on observation, examination, or testing of the dog. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 4001
• Common law: The legal system that originated in England and is now in use in the United States. It is based on judicial decisions rather than legislative action.
• Consignee: means a person named in a bill of lading to which or to whose order the bill promises delivery. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 7-102
• Consignor: means a person named in a bill of lading as the person from which the goods have been received for shipment. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 7-102
• Consumer: means a person who buys for personal use, or for the use of another but not for resale. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 3701
• Contract price: means the sum of the initiation fee, if any, and all fees except interest required by the health spa contract. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 4202
• Delivery order: means a record that contains an order to deliver goods directed to a warehouse, carrier, or other person that in the ordinary course of business issues warehouse receipts or bills of lading. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 7-102
• Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
• Director: means the Director of the Division of Consumer Protection, or a member of the Director's staff to whom the Director may delegate duties under this chapter. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 4202
• Document: means :

  a. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 17-101

• dollars: means lawful money of the United States. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302
• Entitlement: A Federal program or provision of law that requires payments to any person or unit of government that meets the eligibility criteria established by law. Entitlements constitute a binding obligation on the part of the Federal Government, and eligible recipients have legal recourse if the obligation is not fulfilled. Social Security and veterans' compensation and pensions are examples of entitlement programs.
• 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}
• 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.
• Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
• Goods: means all things that are treated as movable for the purposes of a contract for storage or transportation. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 7-102
• Health spa: includes any person, firm, corporation, organization, club or association engaged in the sale of memberships in a program of physical exercise, physical fitness, weight control or figure reduction, which offers the use of 1 or more of the following: a whirlpool, weight lifting room, steam room, exercising room or exercising or weight loss device. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 4202
• Health spa contract: means a written agreement whereby the buyer of health spa services purchases or becomes obligated to purchase health spa services to be rendered over a period longer than 3 months, and the seller of health spa services receives payment to cover a period more than 3 months. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 4202
• Health spa services: means and includes services, privileges or rights offered for sale or provided by a health spa. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 4202
• Initiation fee: means a nonrecurring fee charged at or near the beginning of a health spa membership, and includes all fees or charges not a part of the monthly fee. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 4202
• Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
• Issuer: means a bailee that issues a document of title or, in the case of an unaccepted delivery order, the person that orders the possessor of goods to deliver. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 7-102
• 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.
• Manager: means a person who is named as a manager of a limited liability company in, or designated as a manager of a limited liability company pursuant to, a limited liability company agreement or similar instrument under which the limited liability company is formed, and includes a manager of the limited liability company generally and a manager associated with a series of the limited liability company. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 18-101
• Member: means a person who is admitted to a limited liability company as a member as provided in § 18-301 of this title, and includes a member of the limited liability company generally and a member associated with a series of the limited liability company. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 18-101
• Notice: means any notice that is required by law to be published. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 3801
• Operator: shall mean any person that operates or exercises control over any silvicultural activity. See Delaware Code Title 3 Sec. 1072
• Owner: shall mean any person that (a) owns or leases land on which silvicultural activity occurs or (b) owns timber on land which silvicultural activity occurs. See Delaware Code Title 3 Sec. 1072
• 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
• Pollution: shall mean such alteration of the physical, chemical or biological properties of any waters of the State resulting from sediment deposition that will or is likely to create a nuisance or render such waters (a) harmful or detrimental or injurious to the public health, safety or welfare, or to the health of animals, fish or aquatic life; (b) unsuitable with reasonable treatment for use as a present or possible future source of public water supply; or (c) unsuitable for recreational, commercial, industrial, agricultural or other reasonable uses. See Delaware Code Title 3 Sec. 1072
• Purchaser: means any person purchasing a dog from a seller, as defined by this section. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 4001
• 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.
• Sell: includes offer to sell or exchange, expose for sale or exchange, possess with intent to sell or exchange, and sell or exchange. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 3701
• Seller: means any person, business or other entity engaging in the sale of dogs, except that this definition does not encompass the sale of dogs on the premises of and by a public shelter, pound or other entity operating as a nonprofit organization pursuant to Delaware law. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 4001
• 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.
• Shipper: means a person that enters into a contract of transportation with a carrier. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 7-102
• 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
• Station: means any radio or television station licensed for commercial or educational operation by the Federal Communications Commission. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 3801
• 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.
• 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}
• Warehouse: means a person engaged in the business of storing goods for hire. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 7-102