Terms Used In South Carolina Code > Title 1 > Chapter 18 - Review of Occupational Registration & Licensing

• 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.
• Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.
• Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
• 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}
• Blaster: means a person who detonates or otherwise effects the explosion of an explosive material or who is in immediate personal charge and supervision of one or more persons who are not licensed to engage in such activity. See South Carolina Code 23-36-30
• Blasting agent: means any material or mixture, consisting of fuel and oxidizer, intended for blasting not otherwise defined as an explosive. See South Carolina Code 23-36-30
• Business: includes trade, profession, occupation, or employment. See South Carolina Code 12-6-30
• Catastrophe Savings Account: means a regular savings account or money market account established by an insurance policyholder for residential property in this State to cover an insurance deductible under an insurance policy for the taxpayer's legal residence property that covers hurricane, rising floodwaters, or other catastrophic windstorm event damage or by an individual to cover self-insured losses for the taxpayer's legal residence from a hurricane, rising floodwaters, or other catastrophic windstorm event. See South Carolina Code 12-6-1620
• Claim: means any cause of action in state courts, federal court, or arbitration related to a Year 2000 problem. See South Carolina Code 15-3-230
• clerk: as used in this title , signifies the clerk of the court where the action is pending and, in the Supreme Court or court of appeals, the clerk of the county mentioned in the title of the complaint or in another county to which the court may have changed the place of trial, unless otherwise specified. See South Carolina Code 14-1-40
• Commercial buildings: means buildings such as wholesale and retail stores and storerooms, and office buildings. See South Carolina Code 23-37-10
• Commercial entrance and exit door: means a hinged, pivoting, revolving, or sliding door which is glazed or to be glazed and used alone or in combination with other doors (other than doors covered by item (j) of this section), on interior or exterior walls of a commercial, public or industrial building as a means of passage, ingress or egress. See South Carolina Code 23-37-10
• 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.
• 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.
• Contract: means any agreement for the delivery of goods or services in South Carolina, any agreement entered into in South Carolina for the delivery of goods or services, or any other agreement governed by the South Carolina Uniform Commercial Code. See South Carolina Code 15-3-230
• Court reporter: A person who makes a word-for-word record of what is said in court and produces a transcript of the proceedings upon request.
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Dealer: means a person engaged in the wholesale or retail business of buying and selling explosives. See South Carolina Code 23-36-30
• Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
• Detonator: means any device containing a detonating charge that is used for initiating detonation in an explosive. See South Carolina Code 23-36-30
• Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
• Economic loss: means any damage for breach of contract or breach of warranty recognized under South Carolina law. See South Carolina Code 15-3-230
• Explosive: means any chemical compound, mixture, or device, the primary or intended common purpose of which is to function by explosion. See South Carolina Code 23-36-30
• Explosive materials: means any explosive, blasting agent, water gel, detonator, or other item contained in the "List of Explosive Materials" published by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (BATF). See South Carolina Code 23-36-30
• Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
• Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
• 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
• Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
• Glazed: means the accomplished act of glazing. See South Carolina Code 23-37-10
• Glazing: means the act of installing and securing glass or other glazing material into prepared openings in structural elements such as doors, enclosures, and panels. See South Carolina Code 23-37-10
• Grantor: The person who establishes a trust and places property into it.
• 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.
• Hazardous locations: means those structural elements, glazed or to be glazed, in residential buildings and other structures used as dwellings, commercial buildings, industrial buildings, and public buildings, known as interior and exterior commercial entrance and exit doors and the immediately adjacent flat fixed glazed panels, sliding glass door units including the fixed glazed panels which are part of such units, storm or combination doors, shower and bathtub enclosures, primary residential entrance and exit doors and the fixed or operable adjacent sidelites, whether or not the glazing in such doors, panels and enclosures is transparent. See South Carolina Code 23-37-10
• individual: means a human being. See South Carolina Code 12-2-20
• Industrial buildings: means buildings such as factories. See South Carolina Code 23-37-10
• Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
• 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.
• Juror: A person who is on the jury.
• 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}
• Legal residence: means the taxpayer's legal residence pursuant to § 12-43-220(c). See South Carolina Code 12-6-1610
• Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants.
• Nonresident estate: means an estate other than a resident estate. See South Carolina Code 12-6-30
• nonresident individual: means an individual other than a resident individual or a part-year resident. See South Carolina Code 12-6-30
• Nonresident trust: is a trust other than a resident trust. See South Carolina Code 12-6-30
• Oath: A promise to tell the truth.
• Other structures used as dwellings: means buildings such as mobile homes, manufactured or industrialized housing and lodging homes. See South Carolina Code 23-37-10
• Part-year resident: means an individual who is a resident individual for only a portion of the tax year. See South Carolina Code 12-6-30
• 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 :
  
  (a) an individual, labor union and organization, joint apprenticeship committee, partnership, association, corporation, legal representative, mutual company, joint-stock company, trust, unincorporated organization, trustee, trustee in bankruptcy, receiver, or other legal or commercial entity located in part or in whole in the State or doing business in the State;
  
  (b) the State and any agency or local subdivision of an agency; or
  
  (c) a political subdivision. See South Carolina Code 1-6-10
• person: includes any individual, trust, estate, partnership, receiver, association, company, limited liability company, corporation, or other entity or group; and
  
  (2) "individual" means a human being. See South Carolina Code 12-2-20
• Person: means any natural person, partnership, association, or corporation. See South Carolina Code 23-36-30
• Person: means any individual, corporation, partnership, or other private entity capable under South Carolina law of entering into a contract as defined in item (2) of this section. See South Carolina Code 15-3-230
• Personal property: All property that is not real property.
• Plaintiff: The person who files the complaint in a civil lawsuit.
• Principal place of business: means the domicile of a corporation. See South Carolina Code 12-6-30
• property: as used in this Title , includes both real and personal property. See South Carolina Code 15-1-50
• Public buildings: means buildings such as hotels, hospitals, motels, dormitories, sanitariums, nursing homes, theatres, stadiums, gymnasiums, amusement park buildings, schools and other buildings used for educational purposes, museums, restaurants, bars, correctional institutions, places of worship, and other buildings of public assembly. See South Carolina Code 23-37-10
• Qualified deductible: means the deductible for the individual's homeowner's policy for a taxpayer's legal residence. See South Carolina Code 12-6-1610
• real estate: as used in this Title are coextensive with lands, tenements and hereditaments. See South Carolina Code 15-1-30
• Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
• 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.
• Resident individual: means an individual domiciled in this State. See South Carolina Code 12-6-30
• Residential buildings: means buildings such as homes and apartments used as dwellings for one or more families or persons. See South Carolina Code 23-37-10
• Safety glazing material: means any glazing material, such as tempered glass, laminated glass, wire glass or rigid plastic, which meets the test requirements of the American National Standards Institute Standard (ANSI Standard) Z-97. See South Carolina Code 23-37-10
• Sale: means delivery of an explosive with or without consideration. See South Carolina Code 23-36-30
• Sliding glass door units: means an assembly of glazed or to be glazed panels contained in an overall frame, installed in residential buildings and other structures used as dwellings, commercial, industrial or public buildings, and so designed that one or more of the panels is movable in a horizontal direction to produce or close off an opening for use as a means of passage, ingress or egress. See South Carolina Code 23-37-10
• 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.
• Summons: Another word for subpoena used by the criminal justice system.
• Taxpayer: includes an individual, trust, estate, partnership, association, company, corporation, or any other entity subject to the tax imposed by this chapter or required to file a return. See South Carolina Code 12-6-30
• 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.
• Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
• 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}