Terms Used In Delaware Code > Title 6 > Chapter 28 - Campground Resorts Membership and Vacation Time-Sharing Plans Sales Act

• Accommodations: means any apartment, condominium or cooperative unit, cabin, lodge, hotel or motel room or any other structure which is situated on real property and designed for occupancy by one or more individuals. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 2822
• Advertisement: means the attempt by publication, dissemination, solicitation or circulation to induce, directly or indirectly, any person to enter into any obligation, acquire any title, interest in or otherwise execute a contract as defined in this section. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 2802
• Advertising: means the use of media, mail or personal contacts to induce, directly or indirectly, any person to enter into any obligation, acquire any title, interest in or otherwise execute a contract as defined in this section. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 2822
• Aircraft: includes balloon, airplane, hydroplane and every other vehicle used for navigation through the air. See Delaware Code Title 2 Sec. 301
• Airperson: includes aviator, pilot, balloonist and every other person having any part in the operation of aircraft while in flight. See Delaware Code Title 2 Sec. 301
• Business day: means any day except Sunday or a legal holiday. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 2802
• Business day: means any day except Sunday or a legal holiday. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 2822
• Campground resort: means any tract or parcel of real property within the State on which there are at least 10 camping sites. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 2802
• Chambers: A judge's office.
• Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
• Contract: means any written agreement of more than 1 year's duration, executed in whole or in part within the State, which grants to a purchaser a nonexclusive right or license to use the campground resort of a membership camping resort operator or any portion thereof on a first come, first serve or reservation basis together with other purchasers. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 2802
• Contract: means any written agreement of more than 1 year's duration, executed in whole or in part within the State which grants to a purchaser the rights and obligations of a time-sharing plan. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 2822
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
• Developer: means the person creating a time-sharing plan. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 2822
• Document: means :

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• Escrow: Money given to a third party to be held for payment until certain conditions are met.
• Facilities: means any structure, service, improvement or real property, whether improved or unimproved, which is made available to the purchasers of a time-sharing plan. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 2822
• Fee simple: Absolute title to property with no limitations or restrictions regarding the person who may inherit it.
• Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
• Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
• Laser pointer: means any device designed or used to amplify electromagnetic radiation by stimulated emission that emits a beam designed to be used by the operator as a pointer or highlighter to indicate, mark, or identify a specific position, place, item or object. See Delaware Code Title 2 Sec. 301
• 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}
• Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
• Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
• Managing entity: means a person who undertakes the duties, responsibilities and obligations of the management of a campground resort. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 2802
• Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
• Offer: means any offer, solicitation, advertisement or inducement, to execute a contract. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 2802
• Offer: means any offer, solicitation, advertisement or inducement to execute a contract. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 2822
• Operator: means any person who is in the business of soliciting, offering, advertising or executing membership camping resort contracts. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 2802
• Passenger: includes any person riding in an aircraft but having no part in its operation. See Delaware Code Title 2 Sec. 301
• Person: means any individual, corporation, partnership, company, unincorporated association or any other legal entity other than a government or agency or a subdivision thereof. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 2802
• Person: means any individual, corporation, partnership, company, unincorporated association or any other legal entity other than a government or agency or a subdivision thereof. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 2822
• Personal property: All property that is not real property.
• Plaintiff: The person who files the complaint in a civil lawsuit.
• Prosecute: To charge someone with a crime. A prosecutor tries a criminal case on behalf of the government.
• Purchase money: means any money, currency, note, security or other consideration paid by the purchaser for a membership camping agreement. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 2802
• Purchaser: means any person who enters into a contract with an operator as defined herein. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 2802
• Purchaser: means any person who is buying or who has bought a time-share period in a time-sharing plan. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 2822
• 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.
• Reciprocal program: means any arrangement under which a purchaser is permitted to use camping resort sites or facilities at 1 or more campground resorts not owned or operated by the operator with whom the purchaser has entered into a contract. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 2802
• Reciprocal program: means any arrangement under which a purchaser is permitted to use time-share units or facilities in 1 or more time-sharing plans' locations not owned by the seller with whom the purchaser has entered into a contract. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 2822
• Remand: When an appellate court sends a case back to a lower court for further proceedings.
• Salesperson: means an individual, other than an operator, who offers to sell a contract by means of a direct sales presentation, but does not include a person who merely refers a prospective purchaser to a sales person without making any direct sales presentation. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 2802
• Salesperson: means an individual, other than a seller, who offers to sell a contract by means of a direct sales presentation, but does not include a person who merely refers a prospective purchaser to a sales person without making any direct sales presentation. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 2822
• Seller: means any developer, or any other person, or agent or employee thereof, who offers time-share periods for sale to the public in the ordinary course of business, except persons who have acquired a time-share period for their own occupancy and later offer it for resale. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 2822
• Service of process: The service of writs or summonses to the appropriate party.
• 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. 17-101
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
• Summons: Another word for subpoena used by the criminal justice system.
• Testify: Answer questions in court.
• Time-share period: means that period of time during which a purchaser of a time-sharing plan is entitled to possession and use of the accommodations or facilities, or both, of a time-sharing plan. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 2822
• Time-share unit: means an accommodation or facility of a time-sharing plan which is divided into time-share periods. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 2822
• Time-sharing plan: means an arrangement, plan, or similar device, whereby a purchaser, in exchange for consideration, receives a right to use accommodations or facilities, or both, for a period of more than 3 years and such use is to occur during specific periods of time which are less than 1 year during any given year within the terms of such arrangement, plan or other device. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 2822
• 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.
• Trial: A hearing that takes place when the defendant pleads "not guilty" and witnesses are required to come to court to give evidence.
• Venue: The geographical location in which a case is tried.