Maine Revised Statutes > Title 4 > Chapter 3 – Superior Court


§ 101	Constitution of court
§ 101-A	Chief Justice of the Superior Court
§ 102	Salary; expenses
§ 104	Active retired justices
§ 104-A	Per diem compensation for Active Retired Superior Court Justices
§ 105	Superior Court; civil jurisdiction
§ 106	Conferences
§ 107	Clerk
§ 107-A	Authority of clerks to issue process for arrest of persons
§ 108	Seal; form of summonses, writs and processes; facsimile signature of clerk
§ 110	Trial terms
§ 111	Simultaneous and special sessions
§ 112	Sheriff or deputy to attend court
§ 114	Authority of court
§ 115	Place for holding court; suitable quarters
§ 115-A	Closure of Superior Courts
§ 116	Funds of court
§ 117	Other expenses of the court
§ 120	Justice of the Superior Court to sit in District Court
§ 121	Justice or Active Retired Justice of Superior Court assigned to sit in District Court
§ 122	Annual training; domestic violence and child abuse issues

Terms Used In Maine Revised Statutes > Title 4 > Chapter 3 - Superior Court

Abandoned: means left without provision for reasonable and necessary care or supervision. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 19-A Sec. 1732
Adjourn: A motion to adjourn a legislative chamber or a committee, if passed, ends that day's session.
Affiliate: means any company that controls, is controlled by, or is under common control with another company. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 9-B Sec. 131
Agency: means a branch office of a financial institution at which all or part of the business of the institution is conducted, but the records pertaining to such business are maintained at another office of the institution, and not at such agency office. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 9-B Sec. 131
Appellate: About appeals; an appellate court has the power to review the judgement of another lower court or tribunal.
Branch: means any office of a financial institution, including a credit union, where the business of banking is conducted other than the institution's main office. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 9-B Sec. 131
Bureau: means the Bureau of Financial Institutions. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 9-B Sec. 131
capital: means the sum of common stock, paid-in common stock surplus, perpetual preferred stock, undivided profits and other capital reserves; [PL 1997, c. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 9-B Sec. 131
Child: means an individual who has not attained 18 years of age. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 19-A Sec. 1732
Child custody determination: means a judgment, decree or other order of a court providing for the legal custody, physical custody or visitation with respect to a child. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 19-A Sec. 1732
Child custody proceeding: means a proceeding in which legal custody, physical custody or visitation with respect to a child is an issue. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 19-A Sec. 1732
Commencement: means the filing of the first pleading in a proceeding. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 19-A Sec. 1732
Cooperative financial institution: means any financial institution organized pursuant to chapter 32 in which the earnings and net worth of the institution inure to the ultimate benefit of the members. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 9-B Sec. 131
Court: means an entity authorized under the law of a state to establish, enforce or modify a child custody determination. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 19-A Sec. 1732
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.
deposits: includes credit union share accounts. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 9-B Sec. 131
Director: means a member of the governing body of a financial institution. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 9-B Sec. 131
Ex officio: Literally, by virtue of one's office.
Financial institution: means a universal bank or limited purpose bank organized under the provisions of this Title, and a trust company, nondepository trust company, savings bank, industrial bank or savings and loan association organized under the prior laws of this State. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 9-B Sec. 131
Governing body: means the body that oversees the affairs of a financial institution. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 9-B Sec. 131
His: as used in this Title , means "his or her;" while "he" means "he or she. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 9-B Sec. 131
Home state: means the state in which a child lived with a parent or a person acting as a parent for at least 6 consecutive months immediately before the commencement of a child custody proceeding. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 19-A Sec. 1732
Initial determination: means the first child custody determination concerning a particular child. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 19-A Sec. 1732
Interested party: means a person having a substantial interest in, or who is or may be aggrieved by, any act or impending act, or any report, rule, regulation, amendment, decision or order of the superintendent. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 9-B Sec. 131
Investor: means any person who has an ownership interest in a financial institution and is entitled to vote under the institution's organizational documents. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 9-B Sec. 131
Issuing court: means the court that makes a child custody determination for which enforcement is sought under this chapter. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 19-A Sec. 1732
Modification: means a child custody determination that changes, replaces, supersedes or is otherwise made after a previous determination concerning the same child, whether or not it is made by the court that made the previous determination. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 19-A Sec. 1732
Nondepository trust company: means any financial institution organized under chapter 121 with powers generally limited to trust or fiduciary matters. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 9-B Sec. 131
Officer: means an employee of a financial institution who has been given managerial or other high-level duties by the governing body of the financial institution. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 9-B Sec. 131
Parent: means the legal parent or the legal guardian when no legal parent exists. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 19-A Sec. 101
Person: means an individual, corporation, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, limited liability company, association, joint venture, government; governmental subdivision, agency or instrumentality; public corporation; or any other legal or commercial entity. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 19-A Sec. 1732
Person: means an individual, corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust, estate or unincorporated association. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 9-B Sec. 131
Person acting as a parent: means a person, other than a parent, who:

A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 19-A Sec. 1732

Petitioner: means a person who seeks enforcement of an order for return of a child under the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction or enforcement of a child custody determination. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 19-A Sec. 1761

Physical custody: means the physical care and supervision of a child. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 19-A Sec. 1732

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.

Respondent: means a person against whom a proceeding has been commenced for enforcement of an order for return of a child under the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction or enforcement of a child custody determination. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 19-A Sec. 1761

Share account: includes , but is not limited to, accounts such as share, share draft and term share accounts. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 9-B Sec. 131

Sociological composition: means the reflection of broad social and economic characteristics of the communities in which a mutual financial institution derives a substantial part of its deposit and loan business. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 9-B Sec. 131

State: means a state of the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands or any territory or insular possession subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 19-A Sec. 1732

Subsidiary: means a corporation, partnership, business trust, association or similar organization, all of which are referred to in this subsection as "another company" owned or controlled by a financial institution or financial institution holding company. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 9-B Sec. 131

Superintendent: means the Superintendent of Financial Institutions. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 9-B Sec. 131

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.

Universal bank: means an investor-owned institution or a mutual financial institution authorized by its organizational documents to exercise all the powers granted in Part 4 and includes a trust company, a savings bank and a savings and loan association chartered by special act of the Legislature, established prior to October 1, 1975 or established pursuant to this Title. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 9-B Sec. 131