Terms Used In Delaware Code > Title 9 > Chapter 87 > Subchapter IV - Sale of Land for Delinquent Taxes in Kent and Sussex Counties

• Charge: means the admission price or fee asked in return for invitation or permission to enter or go upon the land. See Delaware Code Title 7 Sec. 5902
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
• Devise: To gift property by will.
• 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.
• Executor: A male person named in a will to carry out the decedent
• 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.
• Land: means land, roads, water, watercourses, private ways and buildings, structures, and machinery or equipment when attached to the realty. See Delaware Code Title 7 Sec. 5902
• 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}
• 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.
• Owner: means the possessor of a fee interest, tenant, lessee, occupant or person in control of the premises. See Delaware Code Title 7 Sec. 5902
• 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
• Year: means a calendar year, and is equivalent to the words "year of our Lord. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302