Terms Used In Kansas Statutes > Chapter 8 > Article 13 - Miscellaneous Provisions

• Accreditation team: means a designated group of existing university of Kansas school of medicine staff who make occasional trips to affiliate locations for the purpose of reviewing the affiliated family practice residency training program at such locations as deemed necessary by the university of Kansas school of medicine. See Kansas Statutes 76-367
• Adaptive behavior: means the effectiveness or degree with which an individual meets the standards of personal independence and social responsibility expected of that person's age, cultural group and community. See Kansas Statutes 76-12b01
• Advice and consent: Under the Constitution, presidential nominations for executive and judicial posts take effect only when confirmed by the Senate, and international treaties become effective only when the Senate approves them by a two-thirds vote.
• 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.
• Affiliate: means a medical care facility or nonprofit community organization which has submitted jointly with the university an application for accreditation of a family practice residency training program to the council on medical education of the American medical association or the successor to such council. See Kansas Statutes 76-367
• Allegation: something that someone says happened.
• Alternative project delivery: means an integrated comprehensive building design and construction process, including all procedures, actions, sequences of events, contractual relations, obligations, interrelations and various forms of agreement all aimed at the successful completion of the design and construction of buildings and other structures whereby a construction manager or general contractor team is selected based on a qualifications and best value approach. See Kansas Statutes 76-7,126
• 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.
• Amortization: Paying off a loan by regular installments.
• Ancillary technical services: include , but shall not be limited to, geology services and other soil or subsurface investigation and testing services, surveying, adjusting and balancing air conditioning, ventilating, heating and other mechanical building systems and testing and consultant services that are determined by the institution to be required for the project. See Kansas Statutes 76-7,126
• Answer: The formal written statement by a defendant responding to a civil complaint and setting forth the grounds for defense.
• Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
• Appraisal: A determination of property value.
• 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
• Architectural services: means those services described as the "practice of architecture" as defined in Kan. See Kansas Statutes 76-7,126
• Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.
• Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
• Association: means the Kansas university endowment association. See Kansas Statutes 76-345
• Association lands: means the following described real property: All of lots 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, and 16 in block seventeen (17), and all of lots 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, and 16 in block eighteen (18), and all of lots 1, 2, 7, and 8 in block nineteen (19), and all of lots 1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10 in block twenty (20), and all of lots 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 17, 18, 19, and 20 in block twenty-one (21), and all of lots 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, and 20 in block twenty-two (22), and all of lots 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10 in block twenty-three (23), all of which lots are situated in University Place Annex, an addition to the city of Lawrence, Douglas county, Kansas. See Kansas Statutes 76-345
• association lands: shall mean the following described property located in Riley county, Kansas: Lot 3 of section 21, and the west half of the northwest quarter of section 27, township 10 south, range 7 east; parts of lots 2 and 3 in section 27, township 10 south, range 7 east of the 6th P. See Kansas Statutes 76-452
• Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
• Baseline: Projection of the receipts, outlays, and other budget amounts that would ensue in the future without any change in existing policy. Baseline projections are used to gauge the extent to which proposed legislation, if enacted into law, would alter current spending and revenue levels.
• Beneficiary: A person who is entitled to receive the benefits or proceeds of a will, trust, insurance policy, retirement plan, annuity, or other contract. ^{Source: OCC}
• Bequest: Property gifted by will.
• Board: means the Kansas state board of regents. See Kansas Statutes 76-345
• Board: means the state board of regents;

  (b) "Kansas state university" means the college of agriculture of Kansas state university; and

  (c) "service" means the Kansas forest service created by Kan. See Kansas Statutes 76-425a

• Board: means the state board of regents. See Kansas Statutes 76-6a01
• Board of regents: means the state board of regents provided for in the constitution of this state and described in article 32 of chapter 74 of Kansas Statutes Annotated and amendments thereto. See Kansas Statutes 76-711
• Bonds: means any bonds, notes, lease certificates of participation or other evidences of indebtedness, whether or not the interest on which is subject to federal income taxation, issued by the Kansas development finance authority on behalf of the board of regents pursuant to this act to finance a scientific research and development facility. See Kansas Statutes 76-779
• Building construction: means furnishing labor, equipment, material or supplies used or consumed for the design, construction, alteration, renovation, repair or maintenance of a building or structure. See Kansas Statutes 76-7,126
• Care: means supportive services, including, but not limited to, provision of room and board, supervision, protection, assistance in bathing, dressing, grooming, eating and other activities of daily living. See Kansas Statutes 76-12b01
• Care or treatment: means such necessary services as are determined by the secretary to be in the best interests of the physical and mental health of a substance abuser. See Kansas Statutes 76-12a22
• commissioner: means the commissioner of community services and programs. See Kansas Statutes 76-12a01
• 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.
• Conservator: means an individual or corporation appointed by the court to act on behalf of a conservatee and possessed of some or all of the powers and duties set out in Kan. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
• Construction management at-risk contract: means a contract under which an institution acquires from a construction manager or general contractor a series of preconstruction services and an at-risk financial obligation to carry out construction under a specified cost agreement. See Kansas Statutes 76-7,126
• Construction management at-risk services: means the services provided by a firm which has entered into a contract with the institution to be the construction manager or general contractor for the value and schedule of the contract for a project, which is to hold the trade contracts and execute the work for a project in a manner similar to a general contractor, and which is required to solicit competitive bids for the trade packages developed for the project and to enter into the trade contracts for a project with the lowest responsible bidder therefor. See Kansas Statutes 76-7,126
• Construction manager or general contractor: means any individual, partnership, joint venture, corporation, or other legal entity who is a member of the integrated project team with the institution, design professional and other consultants that may be required for the project, who utilizes skill and knowledge of general contracting to perform preconstruction services and competitively procures and contracts with specialty contractors assuming the responsibility and the risk for construction delivery within a specified cost and schedule terms including a guaranteed maximum price. See Kansas Statutes 76-7,126
• Construction project services: means the process of planning, acquiring, building, equipping, altering, repairing, improving, or demolishing any structure or appurtenance thereto, including facilities, utilities or other improvements to any real property, excluding highways, roads, bridges, dams, turnpikes or related structures or stand-alone parking lots. See Kansas Statutes 76-7,126
• 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: is a pplied to an instrument conveying lands but does not imply a sealed instrument. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
• 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.
• Deposition: An oral statement made before an officer authorized by law to administer oaths. Such statements are often taken to examine potential witnesses, to obtain discovery, or to be used later in trial.
• Devise: To gift property by will.
• director: means the director of the cooperative agricultural extension service of Kansas state university of agriculture and applied science. See Kansas Statutes 76-459
• Disabled person: includes incapacitated persons and incompetent persons as defined herein. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
• Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
• Donor: The person who makes a gift.
• Eligible educational institution: means any state educational institution, municipal university, community college, technical college or vocational education school under the governance or coordination of the state board of regents. See Kansas Statutes 76-773
• Endowed professorship: means the position of a professor of the faculty of an eligible educational institution for which a qualifying gift is received by the endowment association of the eligible educational institution in accordance with the Kansas partnership for faculty of distinction program. See Kansas Statutes 76-773
• Endowment association: means :

  (1) For the Fort Hays state university, the Fort Hays state university foundation;

  (2) for the Kansas state university of agriculture and applied science, the Kansas state university veterinary medical center, and the Kansas state university polytechnic campus, the Kansas state university foundation;

  (3) for the Emporia state university, the Emporia state university foundation;

  (4) for the Pittsburg state university, the Pittsburg state university foundation;

  (5) for the university of Kansas and the university of Kansas medical center, the Kansas university endowment association; and

  (6) for the Wichita state university, the Wichita state university board of trustees and the Wichita state university foundation. See Kansas Statutes 76-756

• Engineering services: means those services described as the "practice of engineering" as defined in Kan. See Kansas Statutes 76-7,126
• 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}
• Escrow: Money given to a third party to be held for payment until certain conditions are met.
• 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.
• Ex officio: Literally, by virtue of one's office.
• Fairmount Towers: shall mean the property consisting of:

  (1) The real property which is located in the city of Wichita, county of Sedgwick and state of Kansas and which is described as follows:

  Parcel 1: Lots 1 and 2, Campus Addition

  Parcel 2: Lot 1, Campus 2nd Addition

  Parcel 3: East one hundred forty (140) feet of Lot 55, Hillside Garden Subdivision; and

  (2) the buildings and improvements located on the real property described in subsection (1) above; and

  (3) all fixtures, facilities, machinery, apparatus, installations, furniture, equipment and other property, whether real, personal or mixed, located on or in the property described in subsections (1) and (2) above and used in connection with or on the property described in subsections (1) and (2) above, including all consumable personal property and inventories. See Kansas Statutes 76-6a31

• Federal funds: means funds which are received by a state agency directly or indirectly from any agency of the federal government and which may be expended to finance a research project. See Kansas Statutes 76-739
• 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.
• Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
• Grantor: The person who establishes a trust and places property into it.
• Guaranteed maximum price: means the cost of the work as defined in the contract. See Kansas Statutes 76-7,126
• Guardian: means an individual or a nonprofit corporation certified in accordance with Kan. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
• Guardian: A person legally empowered and charged with the duty of taking care of and managing the property of another person who because of age, intellect, or health, is incapable of managing his (her) own affairs.
• institution: means the university of Kansas, Kansas state university of agriculture and applied science, Wichita state university, Emporia state university, Pittsburg state university and Fort Hays state university. See Kansas Statutes 76-116d
• Institution: means and includes:

  (1) Any state educational institution operated and managed under the control and supervision of the state board of regents;

  (2) any municipal university organized under the laws of Kansas;

  (3) any community college;

  (4) northwest Kansas technical college or Fort Hays state university - northwest Kansas technical college upon approval of a formal affiliation agreement pursuant to Kan. See Kansas Statutes 76-6a13

• Institution: means any institution under the control and supervision of the state board of regents. See Kansas Statutes 76-739
• Institution: means the following institutions: Osawatomie state hospital, Rainbow mental health facility, Larned state hospital, Parsons state hospital and training center, and Kansas neurological institute. See Kansas Statutes 76-12a01
• Institution: means a state institution for people with intellectual disability including the following institutions: Kansas neurological institute and Parsons state hospital. See Kansas Statutes 76-12b01
• institutions: means and includes the university of Kansas, university of Kansas school of medicine, Kansas state university of agriculture and applied science, Wichita state university, Emporia state university, Fort Hays state university, and Pittsburg state university, together with all other state institutions of learning now or hereafter under the control and supervision of the board. See Kansas Statutes 76-6a01
• Intellectual disability: means significantly subaverage general intellectual functioning existing concurrently with deficits in adaptive behavior. See Kansas Statutes 76-12b01
• Interest rate: The amount paid by a borrower to a lender in exchange for the use of the lender's money for a certain period of time. Interest is paid on loans or on debt instruments, such as notes or bonds, either at regular intervals or as part of a lump sum payment when the issue matures. ^{Source: OCC}
• Interrogatories: Written questions asked by one party of an opposing party, who must answer them in writing under oath; a discovery device in a lawsuit.
• Irrevocable trust: A trust arrangement that cannot be revoked, rescinded, or repealed by the grantor.
• Joint committee: Committees including membership from both houses of teh legislature. Joint committees are usually established with narrow jurisdictions and normally lack authority to report legislation.
• 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}
• Legislative session: That part of a chamber's daily session in which it considers legislative business (bills, resolutions, and actions related thereto).
• 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.
• Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants.
• Minor: means any person defined by Kan. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
• Moneys received from sales and other operations: shall include moneys received under Kan. See Kansas Statutes 76-466
• Month: means a calendar month, unless otherwise expressed. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
• Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
• National Bank: A bank that is subject to the supervision of the Comptroller of the Currency. The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency is a bureau of the U.S. Treasury Department. A national bank can be recognized because it must have "national" or "national association" in its name. ^{Source: OCC}
• Natural guardian: means both the biological or adoptive mother and father of a minor if neither parent has been found to be an adult with an impairment in need of a guardian or has had parental rights terminated by a court of competent jurisdiction. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
• Net income and revenue: means the income arising from the operation of a building remaining after providing for the costs of operation of such building and the costs of maintenance thereof. See Kansas Statutes 76-6a13
• Nolo contendere: No contest-has the same effect as a plea of guilty, as far as the criminal sentence is concerned, but may not be considered as an admission of guilt for any other purpose.
• Non-state moneys: means any funds received by a state educational institution from any source other than the state of Kansas or any agency thereof. See Kansas Statutes 76-7,126
• 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.
• Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
• Parking lot: means a designated area constructed on the ground surface for parking motor vehicles. See Kansas Statutes 76-7,126
• 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.
• Personal property: includes money, goods, chattels, evidences of debt and things in action, and digital assets as defined in the revised uniform fiduciary access to digital assets act, Kan. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
• Personal property: All property that is not real property.
• Plea: In a criminal case, the defendant's statement pleading "guilty" or "not guilty" in answer to the charges, a declaration made in open court.
• Preconstruction services: means a series of services including, but not limited to: Design review, scheduling, cost control, value engineering, constructability evaluation and preparation and coordination of bid packages. See Kansas Statutes 76-7,126
• Probate: Proving a will
• Procurement committee: means the state educational institution procurement committee established by Kan. See Kansas Statutes 76-7,126
• Program: means the affiliated family practice residency training program authorized by this act. See Kansas Statutes 76-367
• Program: means the Kansas partnership for faculty of distinction program established by this act. See Kansas Statutes 76-773
• project: means the process of designing, constructing, reconstructing, altering or renovating a building or other structure. See Kansas Statutes 76-7,126
• Property: includes personal and real property. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
• Public law: A public bill or joint resolution that has passed both chambers and been enacted into law. Public laws have general applicability nationwide.
• Qualifying gift: means a monetary donation which (1) is a single monetary donation from a single donor or entity or is a joint monetary donation from or on behalf of two or more donors or entities that are directly related or associated or that otherwise are determined by the state board of regents to have common characteristics or similarities such that the joint monetary donation conforms with the purposes of the program, (2) is made in cash or the equivalent of cash, (3) has been received by the endowment association of an eligible educational institution from a single donor or entity for the purpose of endowing a professorship at the eligible educational institution in accordance with the program, and (4) is:

  (A) For community colleges, technical colleges and vocational education schools, an aggregate amount of at least $50,000;

  (B) for Fort Hays state university, Emporia state university and Pittsburg state university, an aggregate amount of at least $200,000;

  (C) for Washburn university, an aggregate amount of at least $300,000;

  (D) for Wichita state university, an aggregate amount of at least $350,000; and

  (E) for the university of Kansas, the university of Kansas medical center and Kansas state university of agriculture and applied science, an aggregate amount of at least $500,000. See Kansas Statutes 76-773

• real property: include lands, tenements and hereditaments, and all rights to them and interest in them, equitable as well as legal. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
• Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
• Recourse: An arrangement in which a bank retains, in form or in substance, any credit risk directly or indirectly associated with an asset it has sold (in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles) that exceeds a pro rata share of the bank's claim on the asset. If a bank has no claim on an asset it has sold, then the retention of any credit risk is recourse. ^{Source: FDIC}
• 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.
• Reporter: Makes a record of court proceedings and prepares a transcript, and also publishes the court's opinions or decisions (in the courts of appeals).
• Research project: means any sponsored project or activity which is conducted by an institution for a state agency pursuant to a contract with the state agency and which project or activity is financed by federal funds. See Kansas Statutes 76-739
• Residence: means the place which is adopted by a person as the person's place of habitation and to which, whenever the person is absent, the person has the intention of returning. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
• Respite care: means temporary, short-term care not exceeding 90 days per calendar year to provide relief from the daily pressures involved in caring for a person with intellectual disability. See Kansas Statutes 76-12b01
• Restraint: means the use of a totally enclosed crib or any material to restrict or inhibit the free movement of one or more limbs of a person except medical devices which limit movement for examination, treatment or to insure the healing process. See Kansas Statutes 76-12b01
• Revenue bonds: means bonds issued by a board under authority of Kan. See Kansas Statutes 76-6a13
• road: include public bridges and may be construed to be equivalent to "county way" "county road" "common road" "state road" and "territorial road. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
• Scientific research and development facility: means any facility, including real and personal property, for which the primary purpose is to promote scientific research and development and which is under the control of a state educational institution. See Kansas Statutes 76-779
• seal: includes an impression of the seal upon the paper alone, as well as upon wax or a wafer affixed to the paper. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
• Seclusion: means being placed alone in a locked room where the individual's freedom to leave is thereby restricted and where such placement is not under continuous observation. See Kansas Statutes 76-12b01
• Secretary: means the secretary for aging and disability services. See Kansas Statutes 76-12a01
• Secretary: means the secretary for aging and disability services or the designee of the secretary. See Kansas Statutes 76-12b01
• 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: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
• State: means the state of Kansas. See Kansas Statutes 76-779
• State agency: means any state agency, as defined in Kan. See Kansas Statutes 76-739
• State board: means the state board of regents. See Kansas Statutes 76-7,126
• State board: means the state board of education. See Kansas Statutes 76-11a04
• State educational institution: means the university of Kansas, Kansas state university of agriculture and applied science, Wichita state university, Emporia state university, Pittsburg state university, and Fort Hays state university. See Kansas Statutes 76-711
• State school: means the Kansas state school for the deaf and the Kansas state school for the blind. See Kansas Statutes 76-11a04
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• Student dormitory: means a building erected for, and used solely as, a place for housing and boarding students and other purposes incidental thereto. See Kansas Statutes 76-6a01
• Student union building: means a building and related parking area constructed for, and used solely as, a recreational center for students, boarding students and other purposes incidental thereto. See Kansas Statutes 76-6a01
• Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
• Substance abuser: means : (1) Any alcoholic, intoxicated person or person incapacitated by alcohol, as such terms are defined in Kan. See Kansas Statutes 76-12a22
• Summons: Another word for subpoena used by the criminal justice system.
• Superintendent: means the chief administrative officer of the institution or the designee of the chief administrative officer. See Kansas Statutes 76-12b01
• Teacher: means any unclassified employee of a state school who is required to hold a certificate to teach. See Kansas Statutes 76-11a04
• Testator: A male person who leaves a will at death.
• Testify: Answer questions in court.
• Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
• This act: means the university research and development enhancement act. See Kansas Statutes 76-779
• Tort: A civil wrong or breach of a duty to another person, as outlined by law. A very common tort is negligent operation of a motor vehicle that results in property damage and personal injury in an automobile accident.
• Training: means the provision of specific environmental, physical, mental, social and educational interventions and therapies for the purpose of halting, controlling or reversing processes that cause, aggravate or complicate malfunctions or dysfunctions of development. See Kansas Statutes 76-12b01
• 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.
• Trial: A hearing that takes place when the defendant pleads "not guilty" and witnesses are required to come to court to give evidence.
• Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
• Trustor: The person who makes or creates a trust. Also known as the grantor or settlor.
• 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}
• University: means the university of Kansas school of medicine. See Kansas Statutes 76-367
• university board: means the board of regents of the university of Wichita;

  (b) the term "state board" means the state board of regents;

  (c) the term "campus property" means the real estate, buildings, furnishings, fixtures, and equipment comprising the educational plant of the university of Wichita; and

  (d) the term "endowment property" means the investment real estate, the net earnings of which are devoted to general educational purposes of said university or to the retirement of revenue bonds, or to special university purposes as prescribed or authorized by the donors of such property, and investment personal property, endowment and scholarship funds of the university of Wichita. See Kansas Statutes 76-3a01

• University lands: means the following described real property commonly known as the "Robinson farm" and all of which is located in Douglas county, Kansas: The east one-half (1/2) of the southeast quarter (1/4) of section eight (8), township twelve (12) south, range twenty (20) east, containing eighty (80) acres more or less; the southeast quarter (1/4) of the northeast quarter (1/4) of section eight (8), township twelve (12) south, range twenty (20) east; section seventeen (17), township twelve (12) south, range twenty (20) east, less the west sixty (60) acres of the south one-half (1/2) of the southwest quarter (1/4) of said section, said tract containing five hundred eighty (580) acres more or less; and section four (4), township twelve (12) south, range twenty (20) east, less the southwest quarter (1/4) of the southwest quarter (1/4) of said section four (4) and less the southwest quarter (1/4) of the northwest quarter (1/4) of the southwest quarter (1/4) of said section four (4), containing five hundred ninety (590) acres more or less. See Kansas Statutes 76-345
• university lands: shall mean the following described property located in Riley county, Kansas: A tract of land in the west part of the north half of the southwest quarter of section 12, township 10 south, range 7 east of the 6th principal meridian, more particularly described as follows: Beginning at the intersection of Dickens avenue and Browning avenue, which is the northwest corner of said southwest quarter of section 12, thence east 945. See Kansas Statutes 76-452
• Verdict: The decision of a petit jury or a judge.
• Ward: means a person who has a guardian. See Kansas Statutes 77-201