Terms Used In Delaware Code > Title 7 > Chapter 7 > Subchapter I - General Provisions

• Advice and consent: Under the Constitution, presidential nominations for executive and judicial posts take effect only when confirmed by the Senate, and international treaties become effective only when the Senate approves them by a two-thirds vote.
• 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.
• Aquaculture: means the controlled propagation, growth, harvest and subsequent commerce in cultured aquatic stock by an aquaculturist. See Delaware Code Title 3 Sec. 403
• Aquaculture facility: means any water system and associated infrastructures capable of holding and/or producing cultured aquatic stock. See Delaware Code Title 3 Sec. 403
• Commission: means the Alcoholic Beverage Control Commission. See Delaware Code Title 3 Sec. 603
• 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.
• Cultured aquatic stock: means aquatic organisms, lawfully acquired by an aquaculturist that are held and grown in a registered aquaculture facility. See Delaware Code Title 3 Sec. 403
• Department: means the Department of Agriculture. See Delaware Code Title 3 Sec. 403
• Department: means the Department of Agriculture. See Delaware Code Title 3 Sec. 603
• 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.
• Freedom of Information Act: A federal law that mandates that all the records created and kept by federal agencies in the executive branch of government must be open for public inspection and copying. The only exceptions are those records that fall into one of nine exempted categories listed in the statute. ^{Source: OCC}
• Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
• 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.
• Prosecute: To charge someone with a crime. A prosecutor tries a criminal case on behalf of the government.
• 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.
• Secretary: means the Secretary of the Department of Agriculture. See Delaware Code Title 3 Sec. 603
• 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
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• United States: includes its territories and possessions and the District of Columbia. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302
• Viticulture: means the cultivation, production or marketing of any grape variety that is cultivated, produced or marketed as a cultivated crop in this State. See Delaware Code Title 3 Sec. 603
• Year: means a calendar year, and is equivalent to the words "year of our Lord. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302