Terms Used In Delaware Code > Title 9 > Chapter 8 > Subchapter II - Method of Creating and Operating Library Systems in Kent County

• 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.
• 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
• Billing period: means the payment cycle agreed to by the parties, or, in the absence of an agreement, the calendar month within which the work is performed. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 3501
• Broadcast: means the transmission of information by means of radio or television facilities. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 3801
• Consumer: means a person who buys for personal use, or for the use of another but not for resale. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 3701
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Contractor: includes , but is not limited to, an architect, engineer, real estate broker or agent, subcontractor or other person, who enters into any contract with another person to furnish labor and/or materials in connection with the erection, construction, completion, alteration or repair of any building or for additions to a building, by such contractor, or for the sale to such other person of any lands and premises, whether owned by such contractor or another, upon which such contractor undertakes to erect, construct, complete, alter or repair any building or addition to a building. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 3501
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Devise: To gift property by will.
• dollars: means lawful money of the United States. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302
• Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
• 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.
• Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
• 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
• 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
• Moneys or funds: includes , but is not limited to, the entire amount of all moneys or funds received by a contractor, as defined in this section, who, being the owner of the legal title to lands and premises, receives, in connection with a contract for the sale thereof and for the erection, construction, completion, alteration or repair of any building or addition thereon by such contractor, any moneys or funds by way of a loan or advance upon the security of such lands and premises for the purpose of such erection, construction, completion, alteration or repair, or who receives from the other contracting party or vendee any deposit or sum of money on account of the purchase or contract price, and no part of such moneys or funds shall be deemed or construed applicable to the payment of the cost or selling price of land, unless that part of the contract price or selling price applicable to cost or selling price of land, be specifically so stated in the contract. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 3501
• Notice: means any notice that is required by law to be published. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 3801
• 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 a person who has an interest in the lands or premises upon which a contractor has undertaken to erect, construct, complete, alter or repair any building or addition to a building. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 3501
• Person: shall include a corporation, partnership, limited liability corporation or partnership, business trust, other association, estate trust, foundation or a natural person. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 3501
• 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
• Sell: includes offer to sell or exchange, expose for sale or exchange, possess with intent to sell or exchange, and sell or exchange. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 3701
• 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
• 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
• Station: means any radio or television station licensed for commercial or educational operation by the Federal Communications Commission. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 3801
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• Subcontractor: means a person who enters into a contract to furnish labor and/or materials to a contractor. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 3501
• 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.
• Year: means a calendar year, and is equivalent to the words "year of our Lord. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302