Terms Used In Indiana Code > Title 4 > Article 1 > Chapter 10 - Release of Social Security Number

• 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.
• Allegation: something that someone says happened.
• 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.
• 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
• Attorney: includes a counselor or other person authorized to appear and represent a party in an action or special proceeding. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
• carbon dioxide: means a fluid consisting of more than ninety percent (90%) carbon dioxide molecules. See Indiana Code 14-39-1-1
• carbon dioxide transmission pipeline: means the part of a pipeline in Indiana, including appurtenant facilities, property rights, and easements, that is used exclusively for the purpose of transporting carbon dioxide to a carbon management application, including sequestration, enhanced oil recovery, and deep saline injection, within or outside Indiana. See Indiana Code 14-39-1-2
• carbon sequestration pilot project: refers to the pilot project described in section 3. See Indiana Code 14-39-1-2.4
• 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.
• 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.
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• 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.
• Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
• 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.
• Fair Credit Reporting Act: A federal law, established in 1971 and revised in 1997, that gives consumers the right to see their credit records and correct any mistakes. ^{Source: OCC}
• 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.
• Fee simple: Absolute title to property with no limitations or restrictions regarding the person who may inherit it.
• 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.
• Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
• fund: refers to the oil and gas environmental fund established by this chapter. See Indiana Code 14-37-10-1
• in writing: include printing, lithographing, or other mode of representing words and letters. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
• Judgment: means all final orders, decrees, and determinations in an action and all orders upon which executions may issue. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
• 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.
• 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}
• Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
• Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
• 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.
• 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.
• person: means the following:

  Indiana Code 14-38-1-2

• person: includes a political body, a corporate body, and the state of Indiana. See Indiana Code 14-39-1-2.6
• person: means an individual, a corporation, a limited liability company, a partnership, or other legal entity. See Indiana Code 4-1-10-1.5
• petroleum: means any liquid or gaseous hydrocarbon occurring in nature beneath the surface of the earth. See Indiana Code 14-38-1-3
• Plaintiff: The person who files the complaint in a civil lawsuit.
• plugging: means the stopping of the flow or migration of oil, gas, water, or other fluid or material up or down a test hole. See Indiana Code 14-38-2-3
• pore space: means subsurface cavities or voids that can be used as a storage space for carbon dioxide. See Indiana Code 14-39-1-2.7
• prior law: refers to the statutes concerning agriculture and animals that are repealed or amended in the recodification act of the 2008 regular session of the general assembly as the statutes existed before the effective date of the applicable or corresponding provision of the recodification act of the 2008 regular session of the general assembly. See Indiana Code 15-10-1-1
• Property: includes personal and real property. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
• proven territory: means territory so situated with reference to known producing wells as to establish the general opinion that, because of the territory's relation to the producing wells, petroleum is contained in the territory. See Indiana Code 14-38-1-4
• public land: means land and area belonging to or subsequently acquired by the state or any of the state's institutions. See Indiana Code 14-38-1-5
• 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.
• Service of process: The service of writs or summonses to the appropriate party.
• state agency: means an authority, a board, a branch, a commission, a committee, a department, a division, or another instrumentality of the executive, including the administrative, department of state government. See Indiana Code 4-1-10-2
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• Summons: Another word for subpoena used by the criminal justice system.
• test hole: means an exploratory hole, except for coal exploration, drilled for the purpose of obtaining information and data on the character, composition, sequence, thickness, age, and correlation of underground strata and formations for at least one (1) of the following and no other purposes:

  Indiana Code 14-38-2-4

• underground storage of carbon dioxide: means the injection of carbon dioxide into, and storage of carbon dioxide in, underground strata and formations at the site of the carbon sequestration pilot project, as described in section 3. See Indiana Code 14-39-1-2.5
• Uniform Commercial Code: A set of statutes enacted by the various states to provide consistency among the states' commercial laws. It includes negotiable instruments, sales, stock transfers, trust and warehouse receipts, and bills of lading. ^{Source: OCC}
• United States: includes the District of Columbia and the commonwealths, possessions, states in free association with the United States, and the territories. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
• Verified: when applied to pleadings, means supported by oath or affirmation in writing. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
• Year: means a calendar year, unless otherwise expressed. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5