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Adjourn: A motion to adjourn a legislative chamber or a committee, if passed, ends that day's session.
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.
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.
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
Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
Board: means the board of directors of an empowerment zone development corporation. See Michigan Laws 125.2565
Charitable organization: means a benevolent, educational, philanthropic, humane, patriotic, or eleemosynary organization of persons that solicits or obtains contributions solicited from the public for charitable purposes. See Michigan Laws 400.272
Chief executive officer: means the mayor or city manager of a city, the president of a village, the supervisor of a township, or the county executive of a county or, if a county does not have a county executive, the chairperson of the county board of commissioners. See Michigan Laws 125.2565
Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
Corporation: means an empowerment zone development corporation organized under this act. See Michigan Laws 125.2565
Corporation: means an enterprise community development corporation organized under this act. See Michigan Laws 125.2605
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.
County drain: means any drain, irrespective of size, carrying drainage water or sewage or both originating in 1 county, and includes drains located, established and constructed by a county drain commissioner or drainage board, by a city, village or township. See Michigan Laws 280.461
county drain commissioner: means the elected county drain commissioner or the person or persons designated to perform the duties of the elected county drain commissioner as provided in section 21 and 21a. See Michigan Laws 280.4
Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
Department: means the department of labor. See Michigan Laws 125.2502
Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
Director: means the director of labor or his or her designee. See Michigan Laws 125.2502
Director of agriculture: means the director of the state department of agriculture. See Michigan Laws 280.511
drain: whenever used in this act , shall include the main stream or trunk and all tributaries or branches of any creek or river, any watercourse or ditch, either open or closed, any covered drain, any sanitary or any combined sanitary and storm sewer or storm sewer or conduit composed of tile, brick, concrete, or other material, any structures or mechanical devices, that will properly purify the flow of such drains, any pumping equipment necessary to assist or relieve the flow of such drains and any levee, dike, barrier, or a combination of any or all of same constructed, or proposed to be constructed, for the purpose of drainage or for the purification of the flow of such drains, but shall not include any dam and flowage rights used in connection therewith which is used for the generation of power by a public utility subject to regulation by the public service commission. See Michigan Laws 280.3
Empowerment zone: means an area designated as an empowerment zone by the United States department of housing and urban development. See Michigan Laws 125.2565
Empowerment zone coordinating council: means a community-based partnership initiated by the chief executive officer of a municipality with a population of 900,000 or more to do all of the following:

(i) Develop a strategic plan in accordance with 24 C. See Michigan Laws 125.2565

Enterprise community: means an area designated as an enterprise community by the United States department of housing and urban development or the United States department of agriculture. See Michigan Laws 125.2605

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.

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}

Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.

Governing body: means the body in which the legislative powers of a municipality are vested. See Michigan Laws 125.2565

Governing body: means the body in which the legislative powers of a municipality are vested. See Michigan Laws 125.2605

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.

Heating cable: means cable designed to be secured to pipes and vessels to reduce their likelihood of freezing or to facilitate the flow of viscous liquids. See Michigan Laws 125.2502

in writing: shall be construed to include printing, engraving, and lithographing; except that if the written signature of a person is required by law, the signature shall be the proper handwriting of the person or, if the person is unable to write, the person's proper mark, which may be, unless otherwise expressly prohibited by law, a clear and classifiable fingerprint of the person made with ink or another substance. See Michigan Laws 8.3q

Intercounty drain: means any drain, irrespective of size, carrying drainage water or sewage originating in more than 1 county, and includes drains located, established and constructed by a county drain commissioner or drainage board, by a city, village or township. See Michigan Laws 280.511

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}

Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.

month: means a calendar month; the word "year" a calendar year; and the word "year" alone shall be equivalent to the words "year of our Lord". See Michigan Laws 8.3j

Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.

Municipality: means a county, city, village, or township. See Michigan Laws 125.2565

Municipality: means a county, city, village, or township. See Michigan Laws 125.2605

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.

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 an individual, partnership, corporation, association, or other legal entity. See Michigan Laws 125.2502

person: may extend and be applied to bodies politic and corporate, as well as to individuals. See Michigan Laws 8.3l

Personal property: All property that is not real property.

Plaintiff: The person who files the complaint in a civil lawsuit.

Prosecute: To charge someone with a crime. A prosecutor tries a criminal case on behalf of the government.

Public corporation: includes this state, counties, cities, villages, townships, metropolitan districts and authorities created by or pursuant to state statutes. See Michigan Laws 280.461

Public corporation: includes this state, counties, cities, villages, townships, metropolitan districts and authorities created by or pursuant to state statutes. See Michigan Laws 280.511

Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.

Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.

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.

State: means this state. See Michigan Laws 280.461

State: means this state. See Michigan Laws 280.511

state: when applied to the different parts of the United States, shall be construed to extend to and include the District of Columbia and the several territories belonging to the United States; and the words "United States" shall be construed to include the district and territories. See Michigan Laws 8.3o

Statute: A law passed by a legislature.

Strategic plan: means a plan agreed to by this state and a municipality concerning an empowerment zone that includes both of the following:

(i) Certification of the authority to adopt a strategic plan in an application for nomination as an empowerment zone under applicable federal regulations. See Michigan Laws 125.2565

Strategic plan: means a plan agreed to by this state and a municipality concerning an enterprise community that includes both of the following:

(i) Certification of the authority to adopt a strategic plan in an application for nomination as an enterprise community under applicable federal regulations. See Michigan Laws 125.2605

Substantial interest: means 1 or more of the following:

(i) Owning real property or a business located in the empowerment zone. See Michigan Laws 125.2565

Summons: Another word for subpoena used by the criminal justice system.

Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.

Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.

United States: shall be construed to include the district and territories. See Michigan Laws 8.3o