Terms Used In Delaware Code > Title 9 > Chapter 11 - County Executive and County Council

• Adjourn: A motion to adjourn a legislative chamber or a committee, if passed, ends that day's session.
• 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.
• Affidavit: A written statement of facts confirmed by the oath of the party making it, before a notary or officer having authority to administer oaths.
• Affirmed: In the practice of the appellate courts, the decree or order is declared valid and will stand as rendered in the lower court.
• age: means any age 18 years or older. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 4602
• Aggrieved person: means a person who was a party to any intercepted wire, oral or electronic communication or a person against whom the interception was directed. See Delaware Code Title 11 Sec. 2401
• Agricultural products: includes all agricultural, horticultural, vegetable, fruit and floricultural products of the soil, livestock and meats, wool, hides, poultry, eggs, dairy products, nuts, mushrooms and honey, but does not include timber products. See Delaware Code Title 3 Sec. 8501
• 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.
• Annuity: A periodic (usually annual) payment of a fixed sum of money for either the life of the recipient or for a fixed number of years. A series of payments under a contract from an insurance company, a trust company, or an individual. Annuity payments are made at regular intervals over a period of more than one full year.
• Annuity issuer: shall mean an insurer that has issued an insurance contract used to fund periodic payments under a structured settlement;

  (2) "Applicable law" shall mean:

  a. See Delaware Code Title 10 Sec. 6602

• Answer: The formal written statement by a defendant responding to a civil complaint and setting forth the grounds for defense.
• 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.
• Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
• 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.
• Association: means a corporation formed under this chapter. See Delaware Code Title 3 Sec. 8501
• Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
• Aural transfer: means a transfer containing the human voice at any point between and including the point of origin and the point of reception. See Delaware Code Title 11 Sec. 2401
• Bail: Security given for the release of a criminal defendant or witness from legal custody (usually in the form of money) to secure his/her appearance on the day and time appointed.
• Balanced budget: A budget in which receipts equal outlays.
• Beneficiary: A person who is entitled to receive the benefits or proceeds of a will, trust, insurance policy, retirement plan, annuity, or other contract. ^{Source: OCC}
• Business day: shall mean any calendar day except Saturdays, Sundays or legal holidays (as that term is defined in Chapter 5 of Title 1). See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 4403
• Buyer: means a natural person who enters into a health spa contract. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 4202
• Chairperson: means the Chairperson of the Delaware Human and Civil Rights Commission. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 4602
• Child: means a person who has not reached the age of 18 years. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302
• Commission: means the Delaware Human and Civil Rights Commission. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 4602
• Commission: means the Public Service Commission. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 4902
• 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.
• Communication common carrier: means any person engaged as a common carrier for hire in the transmission of wire or electronic communications. See Delaware Code Title 11 Sec. 2401
• Complainant: means the person (including the Commission) who files a complaint under § 4610 of this title. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 4602
• Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
• Conciliation: means the attempted resolution of issues raised by a complaint, or by the investigation of such complaint, through informal negotiations involving the aggrieved person, the respondent and the Commission. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 4602
• Conciliation agreement: means a written agreement setting forth the resolution of the issues in conciliation. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 4602
• Consumer goods or services: shall mean goods or services purchased, leased or rented primarily for personal, family or household purposes, including courses of instruction or training regardless of the purpose for which they are taken. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 4403
• Contents: when used with respect to any wire, oral or electronic communication, includes any information concerning the identity of the parties to the communication or the existence or substance of that communication. See Delaware Code Title 11 Sec. 2401
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• 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.
• Court: means the Superior Court of the State unless otherwise designated. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 4602
• Covered multifamily dwellings: means :

  a. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 4602

• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• dealer: includes any person who engages exclusively in the repair of motor vehicles, except motor homes, if such repairs are performed pursuant to the terms of a franchise or other agreement with a franchiser or such repairs are performed as part of a manufacturer's or franchiser's warranty. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 4902
• Dealership facilities: means the real estate, buildings, fixtures and improvements which have been devoted to the conduct of business under the franchise by the new motor vehicle dealer. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 4902
• Decedent: A deceased person.
• Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
• Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
• Dependents: shall include a payee's spouse and minor children and all other family members and other persons for whom the payee is legally obligated to provide support, including alimony;

  (4) "Discounted present value" shall mean the fair present value of future payments, as determined by discounting such payments to the present using the most recently published applicable federal rate for determining the present value of an annuity, as issued by the United States Internal Revenue Service;

  (5) "Favorable tax determination" shall mean, with respect to a proposed transfer of structured settlement payment rights, any of the following authorities that definitively establishes that the federal income tax treatment of the structured settlement for the parties to the structured settlement agreement and any qualified assignment agreement, other than the payee, will not be affected by such transfer:

  a. See Delaware Code Title 10 Sec. 6602

• Designated family member: means the spouse, child, grandchild, parent, brother or sister, of the owner of a new motor vehicle dealership who, in the case of the owner's death, is entitled to inherit the ownership interest in the new motor vehicle dealership under the terms of the owner's will, or who has been nominated in any other written instrument, or who, in the case of an incapacitated owner of a new motor vehicle dealership, has been appointed by a court as the legal representative of the new motor vehicle dealership's property. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 4902
• 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
• Disability: means as defined in § 4502 of this title. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 4602
• Discounted present value: shall mean the fair present value of future payments, as determined by discounting such payments to the present using the most recently published applicable federal rate for determining the present value of an annuity, as issued by the United States Internal Revenue Service;

  (5) "Favorable tax determination" shall mean, with respect to a proposed transfer of structured settlement payment rights, any of the following authorities that definitively establishes that the federal income tax treatment of the structured settlement for the parties to the structured settlement agreement and any qualified assignment agreement, other than the payee, will not be affected by such transfer:

  a. See Delaware Code Title 10 Sec. 6602

• Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
• Discriminatory housing practice: means an act that is unlawful under § 4603, § 4604, § 4605, § 4606 or § 4618 of this title. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 4602
• Dismissal: The dropping of a case by the judge without further consideration or hearing. ^Source:
• Distributor: which means any person, resident or nonresident, who in whole or in part offers for sale, sells or distributes any new motor vehicle to new motor vehicle dealers or who maintains factory representatives or who controls any person, firm, association, corporation or trust, resident or nonresident, who in whole or in part offers for sale, sells or distributes any new motor vehicle to new motor vehicle dealers. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 4902
• Division: means the Division of Human and Civil Rights. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 4602
• 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
• Door-to-door sale: shall mean a sale, lease or rental of consumer goods or services with a purchase price of $25 or more, whether under single or multiple contracts, in which the seller or the seller's representative personally solicits the sale, including those in response to or following an invitation by the buyer, and the buyer's agreement or offer to purchase is made at a place other than the place of business of the seller. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 4403
• Dwelling: means any building, structure or portion thereof which is occupied as, or designed or intended for occupancy as, a residence by 1 or more families, together with any land which is offered for sale, rent or exchange therewith and also means any vacant land which is offered for sale, lease or exchange for the construction or location thereon of any such building, structure or portion thereof. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 4602
• Electronic communication: means any transfer of signs, signals, writing, images, sounds, data or intelligence of any electromagnetic, photoelectronic or photooptical system. See Delaware Code Title 11 Sec. 2401
• Electronic communication service: means any service that provides to users of the service the ability to send or receive wire, oral or electronic communications. See Delaware Code Title 11 Sec. 2401
• Electronic communications system: means any wire, oral, radio, electromagnetic, photooptical or photoelectronic facilities for the transmission of wire, oral or electronic communications, and any computer facilities or related electronic equipment for the wire, oral or electronic storage of electronic communications. See Delaware Code Title 11 Sec. 2401
• Electronic storage: includes any storage of a wire, oral or electronic communication by an electronic communication service for purposes of backup protection of the communication. See Delaware Code Title 11 Sec. 2401
• 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}
• 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.
• Executive authority: includes the governor and any person performing the functions of governor in a state other than this State. See Delaware Code Title 11 Sec. 2501
• Executor: A male person named in a will to carry out the decedent
• Extradition: The formal process of delivering an accused or convicted person from authorities in one state to authorities in another state.
• 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.
• Familial status: means : one or more individuals who have not attained the age of 18 years being domiciled with:

  a. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 4602

• Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
• 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.
• Franchise: means the written agreement or contract between any new motor vehicle manufacturer and any new motor vehicle dealer which purports to fix the legal rights and liabilities of the parties to such agreement or contract, and pursuant to which the dealer purchases and resells the franchise product or leases or rents the dealership premises. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 4902
• Franchiser: which means 1 or more of the following:

  1. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 4902

• Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
• Gender identity: means a gender-related identity, appearance, expression or behavior of a person, regardless of the person's assigned sex at birth. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 4602
• Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
• Good faith: means honesty in fact and the observation of reasonable commercial standards of fair dealing in the trade as defined and interpreted in § 1-201(b)(20) of this title. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 4902
• Governor: includes any person performing the functions of Governor by authority of the law of this State. See Delaware Code Title 11 Sec. 2501
• Grand jury: agreement providing that a lender will delay exercising its rights (in the case of a mortgage,
• Guardian: A person legally empowered and charged with the duty of taking care of and managing the property of another person who because of age, intellect, or health, is incapable of managing his (her) own affairs.
• Habeas corpus: A writ that is usually used to bring a prisoner before the court to determine the legality of his imprisonment. It may also be used to bring a person in custody before the court to give testimony, or to be prosecuted.
• 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
• Home: shall mean a house, dwelling, condominium, townhouse, apartment or such other residential building or dwelling in which a person resides. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 4403
• Housing for older persons: means housing:

  a. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 4602

• In forma pauperis: In the manner of a pauper. Permission given to a person to sue without payment of court fees on claim of indigence or poverty.
• Indictment: The formal charge issued by a grand jury stating that there is enough evidence that the defendant committed the crime to justify having a trial; it is used primarily for felonies.
• Infant: means a person who has not reached the age of 18 years. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302
• Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
• Intercept: means the aural or other acquisition of the contents of any wire, oral or electronic communication through the use of any electronic, mechanical or other device. See Delaware Code Title 11 Sec. 2401
• Interest rate: The amount paid by a borrower to a lender in exchange for the use of the lender's money for a certain period of time. Interest is paid on loans or on debt instruments, such as notes or bonds, either at regular intervals or as part of a lump sum payment when the issue matures. ^{Source: OCC}
• Interested parties: shall mean , with respect to any structured settlement, the payee, any beneficiary designated under the annuity contract to receive payments following the payee's death, the annuity issuer, the structured settlement obligor, and any other party that has continuing rights or obligations under such structured settlement;

  (9) "Payee" shall mean an individual who is receiving tax-free damage payments under a structured settlement and proposes to make a transfer of payment rights thereunder;

  (10) "Qualified assignment agreement" shall mean an agreement providing for a qualified assignment within the meaning of § 130 of the United States Internal Revenue Code, United States Code Title 26 (26 U. See Delaware Code Title 10 Sec. 6602

• Interrogatories: Written questions asked by one party of an opposing party, who must answer them in writing under oath; a discovery device in a lawsuit.
• Investigative or law-enforcement officer: means any officer of this State or a political subdivision of this State, who is empowered by law to conduct investigations or to make arrests for offenses enumerated in this title, any sworn law-enforcement officer of the federal government or of any other state or a political subdivision of another state working with and under the direction of an investigative or law-enforcement officer of this State or a political subdivision of this State, or any attorney authorized by law to prosecute or participate in the prosecution of such offenses. See Delaware Code Title 11 Sec. 2401
• 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.
• 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
• 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}
• Legatee: A beneficiary of a decedent
• Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
• Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants.
• 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
• Manufacturer: includes the following terms:

  a. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 4902

• Marital status: means the legal relationship of parties as determined by the laws of marriage applicable to them or the absence of such a legal relationship. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 4602
• 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
• Month: means a calendar month, unless otherwise expressed. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302
• Mortgagee: The person to whom property is mortgaged and who has loaned the money.
• Motor vehicle: means every vehicle intended primarily for use and operation on the public highways which is self-propelled, not including motor homes, motor home products and recreational vehicles, farm tractors and other machines and tools used in the production, harvesting and care of farm products. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 4902
• New motor vehicle: means a vehicle which has been sold to a new motor vehicle dealer and which has not been used for other than demonstration purposes and on which the original title has not been issued from the new motor vehicle dealer. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 4902
• Oath: includes affirmation in all cases where an affirmation may be substituted for an oath, and "sworn" includes affirmed; and the forms shall be varied accordingly. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302
• Oath: A promise to tell the truth.
• 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.
• Oral argument: An opportunity for lawyers to summarize their position before the court and also to answer the judges' questions.
• Oral communication: means any oral communication uttered by a person made while exhibiting an expectation that such communication is not subject to interception and under circumstances justifying such expectation, but such term does not include any electronic communication. See Delaware Code Title 11 Sec. 2401
• Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
• Panel: means 3 or more Commissioners appointed by the Chair to perform any act authorized under this chapter. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 4602
• 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.
• Patron: means a person engaged in agriculture whose products are sold by or supplies purchased through the association, or who has executed a contract with the association to sell all or a part of the patron's agricultural products to or through the association. See Delaware Code Title 3 Sec. 8501
• Pen register: means a device that records and decodes electronic or other impulses that identify the numbers dialed or otherwise transmitted on the telephone line to which the device is attached. See Delaware Code Title 11 Sec. 2401
• Person: means any employee or agent of this State or a political subdivision thereof, or any individual, partnership, association, joint stock company, trust or corporation. See Delaware Code Title 11 Sec. 2401
• Person: includes 1 or more individuals, corporations, partnerships, associations, labor organizations, legal representatives, mutual companies, joint-stock companies, trusts, unincorporated organizations, trustees, trustees in bankruptcy in cases under Title 11 of the United States Code, receivers, fiduciaries and land use commissions or boards. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 4602
• Person: means every natural person, partnership, corporation, association, trust, estate, or any other legal entity. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 4902
• 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
• Person with a mental condition: includes every person with an emotional or psychiatric disorder or disability. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302
• Personal property: All property that is not real property.
• Place of business: shall mean the main or permanent branch office or a permanent local address of a seller, not including a hotel room, motel room or other temporary quarters. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 4403
• Plaintiff: The person who files the complaint in a civil lawsuit.
• President pro tempore: A constitutionally recognized officer of the Senate who presides over the chamber in the absence of the Vice President. The President Pro Tempore (or, "president for a time") is elected by the Senate and is, by custom, the Senator of the majority party with the longest record of continuous service.
• 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.
• Prosecute: To charge someone with a crime. A prosecutor tries a criminal case on behalf of the government.
• Protective hairstyle: includes braids, locks, and twists. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 4602
• Public debt: Cumulative amounts borrowed by the Treasury Department or the Federal Financing Bank from the public or from another fund or account. The public debt does not include agency debt (amounts borrowed by other agencies of the Federal Government). The total public debt is subject to a statutory limit.
• Purchase price: shall mean the total price paid or to be paid for the consumer goods or services, including all interest and service charges. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 4403
• Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
• Race: includes traits historically associated with race, including hair texture and a protective hairstyle. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 4602
• Readily accessible to the general public: means , with respect to a radio communication, that the communication is not:

  a. See Delaware Code Title 11 Sec. 2401

• 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.
• Regulations: include any applicable federal regulations, state regulations, local regulations or regulations of the shopping center or a place of business within the shopping center, and include the regulating of the flow and direction of traffic in the parking areas of such shopping center as well as stop signs and no-parking regulations. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 4801
• Relevant market area: means the area within a radius of 10 miles from the intended site of a proposed additional dealership. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 4902
• 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.
• Remand: When an appellate court sends a case back to a lower court for further proceedings.
• Remote computing service: means the provision to the public of computer storage or processing services by means of an electronic communications system. See Delaware Code Title 11 Sec. 2401
• Rescission: The cancellation of budget authority previously provided by Congress. The Impoundment Control Act of 1974 specifies that the President may propose to Congress that funds be rescinded. If both Houses have not approved a rescission proposal (by passing legislation) within 45 days of continuous session, any funds being withheld must be made available for obligation.
• Respondent: means :

  a. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 4602

• Responsible administrative authority: shall mean , with respect to a structured settlement, any government authority vested by law with exclusive jurisdiction over the settled claim resolved by such structured settlement;

  (12) "Settled claim" shall mean the original tort claim or workers' compensation claim resolved by a structured settlement;

  (13) "Structured settlement" shall mean an arrangement for periodic payment of damages for personal injuries established by settlement or judgment in resolution of a tort claim or for periodic payments in settlement of a workers' compensation claim;

  (14) "Structured settlement agreement" shall mean the agreement, judgment, stipulation or release embodying the terms of a structured settlement, including the rights of the payee to receive periodic payments;

  (15) "Structured settlement obligor" shall mean, with respect to any structured settlement, the party that has the continuing periodic payment obligation to the payee under a structured settlement agreement or a qualified assignment agreement;

  (16) "Structured settlement payment rights" shall mean rights to receive periodic payments (including lump sum payments) under a structured settlement, whether from the settlement obligor or the annuity issuer, where:

  a. See Delaware Code Title 10 Sec. 6602

• Right of rescission: Right to cancel, within three business days, a contract that uses the home of a person as collateral, except in the case of a first mortgage loan. There is no fee to the borrower, who receives a full refund of all fees paid. The right of rescission is guaranteed by the Truth in Lending Act (TILA). ^{Source: OCC}
• sale: includes a sale, gift, exchange or other means of conveyance. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 4602
• Seller: shall mean any person, partnership, corporation or association engaged in the door-to-door sale of consumer goods or services. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 4403
• 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.
• Sexual orientation: includes heterosexuality, homosexuality, or bisexuality. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 4602
• Shopping center: shall mean any area composed of at least 3 places of business which is serviced by a common parking area. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 4801
• Source of income: means any lawful source of money paid directly, indirectly, or on behalf of a renter or buyer of housing including:

  a. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 4602

• Special Administration Fund: means the Fund established and maintained pursuant to § 3005 of Title 31. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 4602
• 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.
• Terms of the structured settlement: shall include , with respect to any structured settlement, the terms of the structured settlement agreement, the annuity contract, any qualified assignment agreement and any order or approval of any court or responsible administrative authority or other government authority authorizing or approving such structured settlement;

  (18) "Transfer" shall mean any sale, assignment, pledge, hypothecation or other form of alienation or encumbrance made by a payee for consideration;

  (19) "Transfer agreement" shall mean the agreement providing for transfer of structured settlement payment rights from a payee to a transferee; and

  (20) "Transferee" or "payor" shall mean the person, firm or entity purchasing or receiving the assignment, pledge, hypothecation or other form of alienation or encumbrance made by a payee for consideration under a structured settlement agreement. See Delaware Code Title 10 Sec. 6602

• Testify: Answer questions in court.
• Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
• 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.
• Transfer: shall mean any sale, assignment, pledge, hypothecation or other form of alienation or encumbrance made by a payee for consideration;

  (19) "Transfer agreement" shall mean the agreement providing for transfer of structured settlement payment rights from a payee to a transferee; and

  (20) "Transferee" or "payor" shall mean the person, firm or entity purchasing or receiving the assignment, pledge, hypothecation or other form of alienation or encumbrance made by a payee for consideration under a structured settlement agreement. See Delaware Code Title 10 Sec. 6602

• Trap and trace device: means a device that captures the incoming electronic or other impulses that identify the originating number of an instrument or device from which a wire or electronic communication was transmitted. See Delaware Code Title 11 Sec. 2401
• 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
• User: means any person or entity that uses an electronic communication service and is duly authorized by the provider of the service to engage in that use. See Delaware Code Title 11 Sec. 2401
• Vehicle: includes all motor-propelled vehicles, wagons, carts, carriages, bicycles, vessels and aircraft. See Delaware Code Title 11 Sec. 2321
• Veto: The procedure established under the Constitution by which the President/Governor refuses to approve a bill or joint resolution and thus prevents its enactment into law. A regular veto occurs when the President/Governor returns the legislation to the house in which it originated. The President/Governor usually returns a vetoed bill with a message indicating his reasons for rejecting the measure. In Congress, the veto can be overridden only by a two-thirds vote in both the Senate and the House.
• Wire communication: means any aural transfer made in whole or in part through the use of facilities for the transmission of communications by the aid of wire, cable or other like connection between the point of origin and the point of reception (including the use of a connection in a switching station) furnished or operated by any person licensed to engage in providing or operating such facilities for the transmission of communications. See Delaware Code Title 11 Sec. 2401
• Writ: A formal written command, issued from the court, requiring the performance of a specific act.
• Year: means a calendar year, and is equivalent to the words "year of our Lord. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302