Terms Used In Delaware Code > Title 9 > Chapter 13 > Subchapter II - Police Department

• Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.
• Automobile: means any passenger motor vehicle which is leased or bought in Delaware or registered by the Division of Motor Vehicles in the Department of Transportation except the living facilities of motor homes. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 5001
• Consumer: means the purchaser, other than for purposes of resale, of an automobile; a person to whom an automobile is transferred during the duration of an express warranty applicable to the automobile; or any other person entitled by the terms of the warranty to enforce the obligations of the warranty. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 5001
• Consumer: means a purchaser, other than for purposes of resale, of a new farm tractor, a person to whom the new farm tractor is transferred for the same purposes during the duration of an express warranty applicable to the farm tractor and any other person entitled by the terms of the warranty to enforce the terms of the warranty. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 5001A
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Dealer: means a person actively engaged in the business of buying, selling or exchanging automobiles at retail and who has an established place of business. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 5001
• Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
• Fair rental value: means the rental value calculated in accordance with the "Tractor and Farm Equipment Trade-In Guide" published by the National Farm and Power Equipment Dealers Association. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 5001A
• Farm tractor: means any self-propelled vehicle which is designed primarily for pulling or propelling agricultural machinery and implements and is used principally in the occupation or business of farming, including an implement of husbandry that is self-propelled. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 5001A
• 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.
• Manufacturer: means a person engaged in the business of manufacturing, assembling or distributing automobiles, who will, under normal business conditions during the year, manufacture, assemble or distribute to dealers at least 10 new automobiles. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 5001
• Manufacturer: means a person engaged in the business of manufacturing, assembling or distributing farm tractors, who under normal business conditions during the year manufacturers, assembles, or distributes to dealers at least 10 new farm tractors. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 5001A
• Nonconformity: means a defect or condition which substantially impairs the use, value or safety of an automobile. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 5001
• Nonconformity: means any condition of the farm tractor that makes it reasonably unsuitable to use for the purpose for which it was intended. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 5001A
• 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.
• 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
• Plaintiff: The person who files the complaint in a civil lawsuit.
• Precedent: A court decision in an earlier case with facts and law similar to a dispute currently before a court. Precedent will ordinarily govern the decision of a later similar case, unless a party can show that it was wrongly decided or that it differed in some significant way.
• Reasonable allowance for prior use: shall mean no less than the fair rental value of the fair tractor and shall be the sum of:

  a. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 5001A

• 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 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.
• warranty: means the written warranty of the manufacturer of a new automobile of its condition and fitness for use, including any terms or conditions precedent to the enforcement of obligations under that warranty. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 5001
• Year: means a calendar year, and is equivalent to the words "year of our Lord. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302