Terms Used In Kansas Statutes > Chapter 8 > Article 15 - Uniform Act Regulating Traffic; Rules of the Road

• Account: means any deposit or credit account with a bank, including a demand, time, savings, passbook, share draft, or like account, other than an account evidenced by a certificate of deposit;

  (2) "Afternoon" means the period of a day between noon and midnight;

  (3) "Banking day" means the part of a day on which a bank is open to the public for carrying on substantially all of its banking functions;

  (4) "Clearing house" means an association of banks or other payors regularly clearing items;

  (5) "Customer" means a person having an account with a bank or for whom a bank has agreed to collect items, including a bank that maintains an account at another bank;

  (6) "Documentary draft" means a draft to be presented for acceptance or payment if specified documents, certificated securities Kan. See Kansas Statutes 84-4-104

• 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.
• 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.
• Annuity: A periodic (usually annual) payment of a fixed sum of money for either the life of the recipient or for a fixed number of years. A series of payments under a contract from an insurance company, a trust company, or an individual. Annuity payments are made at regular intervals over a period of more than one full year.
• 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.
• Appellate: About appeals; an appellate court has the power to review the judgement of another lower court or tribunal.
• 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
• 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.
• Assurance storage: means that part of the conservation storage water supply capacity of any reservoir devoted to the storage water for the water assurance program;

  (b) "assurance water" means water stored in assurance storage of a reservoir under a water reservation right and provided as supplemental water to eligible water right holders;

  (c) "water assurance district" means an organization of eligible water right holders;

  (d) "assurance reservoir" means any reservoir containing assurance storage;

  (e) "eligible water right holder" means any entity holding a water right or permit, pursuant to Kan. See Kansas Statutes 82a-1331

• Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
• Authority: means the Kansas water authority. See Kansas Statutes 82a-1301
• Authority: means the Kansas water authority;

  (b) "Director" means the director of the Kansas water office. See Kansas Statutes 82a-1402

• Bail: Security given for the release of a criminal defendant or witness from legal custody (usually in the form of money) to secure his/her appearance on the day and time appointed.
• Bailee: means a person that by a warehouse receipt, bill of lading, or other document of title acknowledges possession of goods and contracts to deliver them. See Kansas Statutes 84-7-102
• Bankruptcy: Refers to statutes and judicial proceedings involving persons or businesses that cannot pay their debts and seek the assistance of the court in getting a fresh start. Under the protection of the bankruptcy court, debtors may discharge their debts, perhaps by paying a portion of each debt. Bankruptcy judges preside over these proceedings.
• 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 board of directors of a reservoir improvement district;

  (b) "district" means a reservoir district for which organization is proposed or has been organized under the provisions of this act, and amendments thereto;

  (c) "eligible water right holder" means any person:

  (1) Holding a water right or permit, pursuant to Kan. See Kansas Statutes 82a-2402

• Buyer: means a person who buys or contracts to buy goods. See Kansas Statutes 84-2-103
• Capital cost: means all costs, including the principal and interest thereon, incurred by the state in the construction or acquisition of conservation storage water supply capacity in the reservoir system from which water may be contracted for sale. See Kansas Statutes 82a-1301
• Carrier: means a person that issues a bill of lading. See Kansas Statutes 84-7-102
• Chief engineer: means the chief engineer of the division of water resources of the Kansas department of agriculture. See Kansas Statutes 82a-1301
• Chief engineer: means the chief engineer of the division of water resources of the department of agriculture. See Kansas Statutes 82a-1603
• Classified stream segments: shall include all stream segments that are waters of the state as defined in Kan. See Kansas Statutes 82a-2001
• Commercial unit: means such a unit of goods as by commercial usage is a single whole for purposes of lease and division of which materially impairs its character or value on the market or in use. See Kansas Statutes 84-2a-103
• Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
• Concurrent resolution: A legislative measure, designated "S. Con. Res." and numbered consecutively upon introduction, generally employed to address the sentiments of both chambers, to deal with issues or matters affecting both houses, such as a concurrent budget resolution, or to create a temporary joint committee. Concurrent resolutions are not submitted to the President/Governor and thus do not have the force of law.
• 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
• Consignee: means a person named in a bill of lading to which or to whose order the bill promises delivery. See Kansas Statutes 84-7-102
• Consignor: means a person named in a bill of lading as the person from which the goods have been received for shipment. See Kansas Statutes 84-7-102
• Construction of water wells: means all acts necessary to obtaining groundwater by any method for any use including, without limitation, the location of and excavation for the well. See Kansas Statutes 82a-1203
• Consumer lease: means a lease that a lessor regularly engaged in the business of leasing or selling makes to a lessee who is an individual and who takes under the lease primarily for a personal, family, or household purpose, if the total payments to be made under the lease contract, excluding payments for options to renew or buy, do not exceed $25,000. See Kansas Statutes 84-2a-103
• Continuance: Putting off of a hearing ot trial until a later time.
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Contract for sale: includes both a present sale of goods and a contract to sell goods at a future time. See Kansas Statutes 84-2-106
• contractor: means any person who constructs, reconstructs or treats a water well. See Kansas Statutes 82a-1203
• 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.
• Counterclaim: A claim that a defendant makes against a plaintiff.
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Decedent: A deceased person.
• 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.
• Delivery order: means a record that contains an order to deliver goods directed to a warehouse, carrier, or other person that in the ordinary course of business issues warehouse receipts or bills of lading. See Kansas Statutes 84-7-102
• Department: means the department of health and environment. See Kansas Statutes 82a-2001
• Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
• Director: means the director of the Kansas water office. See Kansas Statutes 82a-1301
• Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
• Dismissal: The dropping of a case by the judge without further consideration or hearing. ^Source:
• Division: means the division of conservation established within the Kansas department of agriculture in Kan. See Kansas Statutes 82a-1603
• Draft: means a draft as defined in Kan. See Kansas Statutes 84-4-104
• Drawee: means a person ordered in a draft to make payment;

  (9) "Item" means an instrument or a promise in order to pay money handled by a bank for collection or payment. See Kansas Statutes 84-4-104

• 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.
• 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.
• Executor: includes an administrator where the subject matter applies to an administrator. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
• Executor: A male person named in a will to carry out the decedent
• 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.
• Fault: means wrongful act, omission, breach or default. See Kansas Statutes 84-2a-103
• Federal government: means the United States of America or any department or agency thereof. See Kansas Statutes 82a-1301
• Federal Reserve System: The central bank of the United States. The Fed, as it is commonly called, regulates the U.S. monetary and financial system. The Federal Reserve System is composed of a central governmental agency in Washington, D.C. (the Board of Governors) and twelve regional Federal Reserve Banks in major cities throughout the United States. ^{Source: OCC}
• Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
• Finance lease: means a lease with respect to which:

  (i) The lessor does not select, manufacture or supply the goods;

  (ii) the lessor acquires the goods or the right to possession and use of the goods in connection with the lease; and

  (iii) one of the following occurs:

  (A) The lessee receives a copy of the contract by which the lessor acquired the goods or the right to possession and use of the goods before signing the lease contract;

  (B) the lessee's approval of the contract by which the lessor acquired the goods or the right to possession and use of the goods is a condition to effectiveness of the lease contract;

  (C) the lessee, before signing the lease contract, receives an accurate and complete statement designating the promises and warranties, and any disclaimers of warranties, limitations or modifications of remedies, or liquidated damages, including those of a third party, such as the manufacturer of the goods, provided to the lessor by the person supplying the goods in connection with or as part of the contract by which the lessor acquired the goods or the right to possession and use of the goods; or

  (D) if the lease is not a consumer lease, the lessor, before the lessee signs the lease contract, informs the lessee in writing (a) of the identity of the person supplying the goods to the lessor, unless the lessee has selected that person and directed the lessor to acquire the goods or the right to possession and use of the goods from that person, (b) that the lessee is entitled under this article to the promises and warranties, including those of any third party, provided to the lessor by the person supplying the goods in connection with or as part of the contract by which the lessor acquired the goods or the right to possession and use of the goods, and (c) that the lessee may communicate with the person supplying the goods to the lessor and receive an accurate and complete statement of those promises and warranties, including any disclaimers and limitations of them or of remedies. See Kansas Statutes 84-2a-103

• 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.
• Flood control storage: means storage space in reservoirs to hold flood waters. See Kansas Statutes 82a-1603
• Foreclosure: A legal process in which property that is collateral or security for a loan may be sold to help repay the loan when the loan is in default. ^{Source: OCC}
• Forgery: The fraudulent signing or alteration of another's name to an instrument such as a deed, mortgage, or check. The intent of the forgery is to deceive or defraud. ^{Source: OCC}
• Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
• Future use public water supply storage: means storage space that the Kansas water office determines will be needed within the next 20 years for use by public water supply users in an area but for which there is no current sponsor. See Kansas Statutes 82a-1603
• Garnishment: Generally, garnishment is a court proceeding in which a creditor asks a court to order a third party who owes money to the debtor or otherwise holds assets belonging to the debtor to turn over to the creditor any of the debtor
• General election: refers to the election required to be held on the Tuesday following the first Monday in November of each even-numbered year. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
• general plan: means a preliminary engineering report describing the characteristics of the reservoir, the nature and methods of dealing with the bed and water problems in the reservoir or the reservoir watershed and the projects proposed to be undertaken by the district. See Kansas Statutes 82a-2402
• General plan: means a preliminary engineering report describing the characteristics of the project area, the nature and methods of dealing with the soil and water problems within the project area and the projects proposed to be undertaken by the sponsor within the project area. See Kansas Statutes 82a-1603
• Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
• Good faith: means honesty in fact and the observance of reasonable commercial standards of fair dealing. See Kansas Statutes 84-7-102
• Goods: means all things that are treated as movable for the purposes of a contract for storage or transportation. See Kansas Statutes 84-7-102
• Goods: means all things that are movable at the time of identification to the lease contract, or are fixtures (Kan. See Kansas Statutes 84-2a-103
• Grantor: The person who establishes a trust and places property into it.
• Guarantor: A party who agrees to be responsible for the payment of another party's debts should that party default. ^{Source: OCC}
• Incapacitated person: means an individual whose ability to receive and evaluate relevant information, or to effectively communicate decisions, or both, even with the use of assistive technologies or other supports, is impaired to the degree that the person lacks the capacity to manage the person's estate, or to meet essential needs for the person's physical health, safety or welfare, as defined in Kan. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
• Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
• Installment lease contract: means a lease contract that authorizes or requires the delivery of goods in separate lots to be separately accepted, even though the lease contract contains a clause "each delivery is a separate lease" or its equivalent. See Kansas Statutes 84-2a-103
• 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}
• Issuer: means a bailee that issues a document of title or, in the case of an unaccepted delivery order, the person that orders the possessor of goods to deliver. See Kansas Statutes 84-7-102
• 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}
• Lease: means a transfer of the right to possession and use of goods for a term in return for consideration, but a sale, including a sale on approval or a sale or return, or retention or creation of a security interest is not a lease. See Kansas Statutes 84-2a-103
• Lease agreement: means the bargain, with respect to the lease, of the lessor and the lessee in fact as found in their language or by implication from other circumstances including course of dealing or usage of trade or course of performance as provided in this article. See Kansas Statutes 84-2a-103
• Lease contract: means the total legal obligation that results from the lease agreement as affected by this article and any other applicable rules of law. See Kansas Statutes 84-2a-103
• Leasehold interest: means the interest of the lessor or the lessee under a lease contract. See Kansas Statutes 84-2a-103
• Legal tender: coins, dollar bills, or other currency issued by a government as official money. ^{Source: U.S. Mint}
• Legislative session: That part of a chamber's daily session in which it considers legislative business (bills, resolutions, and actions related thereto).
• Lessee: means a person who acquires the right to possession and use of goods under a lease. See Kansas Statutes 84-2a-103
• Lessor: means a person who transfers the right to possession and use of goods under a lease. See Kansas Statutes 84-2a-103
• Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
• Lien: means a charge against or interest in goods to secure payment of a debt or performance of an obligation, but the term does not include a security interest. See Kansas Statutes 84-2a-103
• Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
• Lineal descendant: Direct descendant of the same ancestors.
• Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants.
• Lot: means a parcel or a single article that is the subject matter of a separate lease or delivery, whether or not it is sufficient to perform the lease contract. See Kansas Statutes 84-2a-103
• Manufactured home: means a structure which:

  (1) Is transportable in one or more sections which, in the traveling mode, is 8 body feet or more in width or 40 body feet or more in length, or, when erected on site, is 320 or more square feet, and which is built on a permanent chassis and designed to be used as a dwelling, with or without permanent foundation, when connected to the required utilities, and includes the plumbing, heating, air conditioning and electrical systems contained therein; and

  (2) is subject to the federal manufactured home construction and safety standards established pursuant to 42 U. See Kansas Statutes 77-201

• member: means an eligible water right holder who, because of a determination of benefit by the chief engineer, is required to participate in and is subject to the rules of a water assurance district. See Kansas Statutes 82a-1331
• Merchant lessee: means a lessee that is a merchant with respect to goods of the kind subject to the lease. See Kansas Statutes 84-2a-103
• Minor: means any person defined by Kan. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
• Mobile home: means a structure which:

  (1) Is transportable in one or more sections which, in the traveling mode, is 8 body feet or more in width and 36 body feet or more in length and is built on a permanent chassis and designed to be used as a dwelling, with or without a permanent foundation, when connected to the required utilities, and includes the plumbing, heating, air conditioning and electrical systems contained therein; and

  (2) is not subject to the federal manufactured home construction and safety standards established pursuant to 42 U. See Kansas Statutes 77-201

• 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.
• Mortgagee: The person to whom property is mortgaged and who has loaned the money.
• Multipurpose small lake project: means a dam and lake containing: (1) Flood control storage; and (2) either public water supply storage or recreation features, or both. See Kansas Statutes 82a-1603
• Naturally: means arising from a phenomenon of nature. See Kansas Statutes 82a-1402
• 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 any person, firm, partnership, association or corporation;

  (f) "specific project" means any project outlined and proposed by the board of directors and may constitute all or part of the general plan;

  (g) "steering committee" means the group of eligible water right holders, not less than the number to be chosen for the board of directors, who shall serve as the governing body of the proposed reservoir improvement district until the first board of directors is elected;

  (h) "water right" shall have the meaning provided in Kan. See Kansas Statutes 82a-2402

• Person: means any individual, association, firm, partnership, corporation or governmental entity. See Kansas Statutes 82a-1203
• Person: means and includes a natural person, partnership, organization, association, private corporation, public corporation, any taxing district or political subdivision of the state, and any department or agency of the state government. See Kansas Statutes 82a-1301
• Person: means and includes a natural person, a partnership, an organization, a corporation, a municipality and any department or agency of the state. See Kansas Statutes 82a-1402
• 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.
• Plaintiff: The person who files the complaint in a civil lawsuit.
• 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.
• Pleadings: Written statements of the parties in a civil case of their positions. In the federal courts, the principal pleadings are the complaint and the answer.
• Point of withdrawal from the reservoir: means the point at which water is taken from the reservoir by pump, siphon, canal or any other device or released through a dam by gates, conduits or any other means. See Kansas Statutes 82a-1301
• present sale: means a sale which is accomplished by the making of the contract. See Kansas Statutes 84-2-106
• Present value: means the amount as of a date certain of one or more sums payable in the future, discounted to the date certain. See Kansas Statutes 84-2a-103
• Presiding officer: A majority-party Senator who presides over the Senate and is charged with maintaining order and decorum, recognizing Members to speak, and interpreting the Senate's rules, practices and precedents.
• Probation: A sentencing alternative to imprisonment in which the court releases convicted defendants under supervision as long as certain conditions are observed.
• Property: includes personal and real property. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
• Prosecute: To charge someone with a crime. A prosecutor tries a criminal case on behalf of the government.
• Proxy voting: The practice of allowing a legislator to cast a vote in committee for an absent legislator.
• Public corporation: means a body that has for its object the government of a political subdivision of this state and includes any county, township, city, district, authority, or other municipal corporation or political subdivision of this state. See Kansas Statutes 82a-1301
• Public law: A public bill or joint resolution that has passed both chambers and been enacted into law. Public laws have general applicability nationwide.
• Public water supply: means a water supply for municipal, industrial or domestic use. See Kansas Statutes 82a-1603
• Public water supply storage: means storage of water for municipal, industrial or domestic use. See Kansas Statutes 82a-1603
• Purchase: includes taking by sale, lease, mortgage, security interest, pledge, gift, or any other voluntary transaction creating an interest in goods. See Kansas Statutes 84-2a-103
• Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
• Ranking minority member: The highest ranking (and usually longest serving) minority member of a committee or subcommittee.
• 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.
• Record: means information that is inscribed on a tangible medium or that is stored in an electronic or other medium and is retrievable in perceivable form. See Kansas Statutes 84-7-102
• 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}
• Recreational use: means :

  (i) Primary contact recreational use is use of a classified stream segment for recreation during the period from April 1 through October 31 of each year, provided such classified stream segment is capable of supporting the recreational activities of swimming, skin diving, water-skiing, wind surfing, kayaking or mussel harvesting where the body is intended to be immersed in surface water to the extent that some inadvertent ingestion of water is probable. See Kansas Statutes 82a-2001

• 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.
• Renovation: means repair or restoration of an existing lake that contains water storage space for use as a public water supply and that has either recreational purposes or flood control purposes, or both. See Kansas Statutes 82a-1603
• 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).
• Rescission: The cancellation of budget authority previously provided by Congress. The Impoundment Control Act of 1974 specifies that the President may propose to Congress that funds be rescinded. If both Houses have not approved a rescission proposal (by passing legislation) within 45 days of continuous session, any funds being withheld must be made available for obligation.
• 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
• Restitution: The court-ordered payment of money by the defendant to the victim for damages caused by the criminal action.
• 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
• 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
• Secretary: means the secretary of the Kansas department of agriculture. See Kansas Statutes 82a-1603
• Secretary: means the secretary of health and environment. See Kansas Statutes 82a-2001
• Secretary: means the secretary of health and environment. See Kansas Statutes 82a-1203
• Seller: means a person who sells or contracts to sell goods. See Kansas Statutes 84-2-103
• Service of process: The service of writs or summonses to the appropriate party.
• 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.
• Shipper: means a person that enters into a contract of transportation with a carrier. See Kansas Statutes 84-7-102
• Sponsor: means : (1) Any political subdivision of the state that has the power of taxation and the right of eminent domain; (2) any public wholesale water supply district; or (3) any rural water district. See Kansas Statutes 82a-1603
• State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• Statute of limitations: A law that sets the time within which parties must take action to enforce their rights.
• Sublease: means a lease of goods the right to possession and use of which was acquired by the lessor as a lessee under an existing lease. See Kansas Statutes 84-2a-103
• Summons: Another word for subpoena used by the criminal justice system.
• Supplier: means a person from whom a lessor buys or leases goods to be leased under a finance lease. See Kansas Statutes 84-2a-103
• Supply contract: means a contract under which a lessor buys or leases goods to be leased. See Kansas Statutes 84-2a-103
• Surplus waters: means waters within the conservation storage water supply capacity committed to the state, but not required to meet contractual requirements made pursuant to Kan. See Kansas Statutes 82a-1301
• Temporary restraining order: Prohibits a person from an action that is likely to cause irreparable harm. This differs from an injunction in that it may be granted immediately, without notice to the opposing party, and without a hearing. It is intended to last only until a hearing can be held.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Undertaking: means a promise or security in any form where required by law. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
• 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}
• Variable Rate: Having a "variable" rate means that the APR changes from time to time based on fluctuations in an external rate, normally the Prime Rate. This external rate is known as the "index." If the index changes, the variable rate normally changes. Also see Fixed Rate.
• Ward: means a person who has a guardian. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
• Warehouse: means a person engaged in the business of storing goods for hire. See Kansas Statutes 84-7-102
• Water user: means any city, rural water district, wholesale water district or any other political subdivision of the state that is in the business of furnishing municipal or industrial water to the public. See Kansas Statutes 82a-1603
• Water well: means any excavation that is drilled, cored, bored, washed, driven, dug, jetted or otherwise constructed, when the intended use of such excavation is for the location, diversion, artificial recharge or acquisition of groundwater. See Kansas Statutes 82a-1203
• watershed: means all the area within the state draining toward a selected point on a reservoir. See Kansas Statutes 82a-2402
• Weather modification activity: means any operation or experimental process which has as its objective inducing change, by artificial means, in the composition, behavior, or dynamics of clouds and the atmosphere. See Kansas Statutes 82a-1402
• well point: means any driven well which is 25 feet or less in depth and is constructed by manually driving into the ground a drive point fitted to the lower end of tightly connected sections of pipe that are 2 inches or less in diameter. See Kansas Statutes 82a-1203