Terms Used In South Carolina Code 39-54-50

• Consumer: means an individual or a public or private agency including, but not limited to, a school district:
  
  (a) who purchases an assistive technology device from an assistive technology device dealer or manufacturer for purposes other than resale;
  
  (b) to whom the assistive technology device is transferred for purposes other than resale, if the transfer occurs before the expiration of an express warranty applicable to the assistive technology device;
  
  (c) who may enforce the warranty; or
  
  (d) who leases an assistive technology device from an assistive technology device lessor under a written lease. See South Carolina Code 39-54-20
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• 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}