Terms Used In Delaware Code > Title 9 > Chapter 7 > Subchapter V - Bonds; Powers to Issue; Terms

• Commission: means the park commission of a park district established by an election under the provisions of this chapter. See Delaware Code Title 9 Sec. 702
• 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.
• Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
• Department of Finance: means the Department of Finance of New Castle County in which the park district is located. See Delaware Code Title 9 Sec. 702
• Energy service agreement: means a contract between a homeowner and an energy service company by which the energy service company is to provide residential heating fuel to the homeowner's home and/or service the residential heating system. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 3401
• Energy service company: means any person engaged in the sale of residential heating fuel and/or the service of residential heating systems. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 3401
• Entitlement: A Federal program or provision of law that requires payments to any person or unit of government that meets the eligibility criteria established by law. Entitlements constitute a binding obligation on the part of the Federal Government, and eligible recipients have legal recourse if the obligation is not fulfilled. Social Security and veterans' compensation and pensions are examples of entitlement programs.
• Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
• 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
• 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.
• Performing group: means a vocal or instrumental group using or seeking to use the name of another group that has previously released a commercial sound recording under that name. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 3301A
• Person: means any individual, partnership, corporation, trustee or other entity having the capacity to enter into a valid and enforceable contract. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 3401
• 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
• Receiver of taxes and county treasurer: means the receiver of taxes and county treasurer of the county, Kent or Sussex, in which the park district is located. See Delaware Code Title 9 Sec. 702
• Recording group: means a vocal or instrumental group at least 1 of whose members has previously released a commercial sound recording under that group's name and in which the member or members have a legal right by virtue of use or operation under the group name without having abandoned the name or affiliation with the group. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 3301A
• Residential heating fuel: includes natural gas, propane, fuel oil, wood and electricity. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 3401
• Residential heating system: means all equipment necessary for the storage and transmission of residential heating fuel and the conversion thereof to energy for the purpose of heating a residence and/or heating hot water to be used in the residence. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 3401
• Series: means a designated series of limited partners, general partners, partnership interests or assets that is a protected series or a registered series, or that is neither a protected series nor a registered series. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 17-101
• 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.
• Sound recording: means a work that results from the fixation on a material object of a series of musical, spoken or other sounds regardless of the nature of the material object, such as a disk, tape or other media in which the sounds are embodied. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 3301A
• 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
• 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
• Year: means a calendar year, and is equivalent to the words "year of our Lord. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302