Terms Used In Delaware Code > Title 6 > Chapter 25 > Subchapter VII - Buyer Property Protection Act

• Agent: means any individual, partnership, corporation or trustee defined as a broker in § 2901 of Title 24, acting on behalf of a seller or buyer of residential real property. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 2571
• Buyer: means any individual, partnership, corporation or trustee purchasing any estate or interest in real property. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 2571
• 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.
• Decedent: A deceased person.
• Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
• Document: means :

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

• Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
• Final settlement: means the time at which the parties have signed and delivered all papers and consideration to convey title to the estate or interest in residential real property being conveyed. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 2571
• Foreclosure: A legal process in which property that is collateral or security for a loan may be sold to help repay the loan when the loan is in default. ^{Source: OCC}
• 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.
• Mortgagee: The person to whom property is mortgaged and who has loaned the money.
• Mortgagor: The person who pledges property to a creditor as collateral for a loan and who receives the money.
• 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, 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
• 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.
• Residential real property: means any estate or interest in a manufactured housing lot or real property, improved by dwelling units for 1-4 families. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 2571
• Seller: means any individual, partnership, corporation or trustee transferring residential real property. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 2571
• 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 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
• Subagent: means any individual, partnership, corporation or trustee defined as a broker or sales person in § 2901 of Title 24 acting on behalf of an agent. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 2571
• Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
• Writ: A formal written command, issued from the court, requiring the performance of a specific act.