Terms Used In Delaware Code > Title 6 > Article 8 - Investment Securities

• Adjourn: A motion to adjourn a legislative chamber or a committee, if passed, ends that day's session.
• Advice and consent: Under the Constitution, presidential nominations for executive and judicial posts take effect only when confirmed by the Senate, and international treaties become effective only when the Senate approves them by a two-thirds vote.
• Affirmed: In the practice of the appellate courts, the decree or order is declared valid and will stand as rendered in the lower court.
• age: means any age 18 years or older. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 4602
• 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.
• 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
• Balanced budget: A budget in which receipts equal outlays.
• Business day: shall mean any calendar day except Saturdays, Sundays or legal holidays (as that term is defined in Chapter 5 of Title 1). See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 4403
• Chairperson: means the Chairperson of the Delaware Human and Civil Rights Commission. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 4602
• Commission: means the Delaware Human and Civil Rights Commission. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 4602
• Complainant: means the person (including the Commission) who files a complaint under § 4610 of this title. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 4602
• Conciliation: means the attempted resolution of issues raised by a complaint, or by the investigation of such complaint, through informal negotiations involving the aggrieved person, the respondent and the Commission. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 4602
• Conciliation agreement: means a written agreement setting forth the resolution of the issues in conciliation. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 4602
• Consumer goods or services: shall mean goods or services purchased, leased or rented primarily for personal, family or household purposes, including courses of instruction or training regardless of the purpose for which they are taken. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 4403
• Court: means the Superior Court of the State unless otherwise designated. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 4602
• Covered multifamily dwellings: means :

  a. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 4602

• Decedent: A deceased person.
• Disability: means as defined in § 4502 of this title. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 4602
• Discriminatory housing practice: means an act that is unlawful under § 4603, § 4604, § 4605, § 4606 or § 4618 of this title. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 4602
• Dismissal: The dropping of a case by the judge without further consideration or hearing. ^Source:
• Division: means the Division of Human and Civil Rights. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 4602
• Document: means :

  a. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 17-101

• Door-to-door sale: shall mean a sale, lease or rental of consumer goods or services with a purchase price of $25 or more, whether under single or multiple contracts, in which the seller or the seller's representative personally solicits the sale, including those in response to or following an invitation by the buyer, and the buyer's agreement or offer to purchase is made at a place other than the place of business of the seller. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 4403
• Dwelling: means any building, structure or portion thereof which is occupied as, or designed or intended for occupancy as, a residence by 1 or more families, together with any land which is offered for sale, rent or exchange therewith and also means any vacant land which is offered for sale, lease or exchange for the construction or location thereon of any such building, structure or portion thereof. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 4602
• 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.
• Familial status: means : one or more individuals who have not attained the age of 18 years being domiciled with:

  a. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 4602

• Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
• 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.
• Gender identity: means a gender-related identity, appearance, expression or behavior of a person, regardless of the person's assigned sex at birth. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 4602
• Guarantor: A party who agrees to be responsible for the payment of another party's debts should that party default. ^{Source: OCC}
• Home: shall mean a house, dwelling, condominium, townhouse, apartment or such other residential building or dwelling in which a person resides. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 4403
• Housing for older persons: means housing:

  a. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 4602

• In forma pauperis: In the manner of a pauper. Permission given to a person to sue without payment of court fees on claim of indigence or poverty.
• Interrogatories: Written questions asked by one party of an opposing party, who must answer them in writing under oath; a discovery device in a lawsuit.
• Knowledge: means a person's actual knowledge of a fact, rather than the person's constructive knowledge of the fact. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 17-101
• Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants.
• Manager: means a person who is named as a manager of a limited liability company in, or designated as a manager of a limited liability company pursuant to, a limited liability company agreement or similar instrument under which the limited liability company is formed, and includes a manager of the limited liability company generally and a manager associated with a series of the limited liability company. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 18-101
• Marital status: means the legal relationship of parties as determined by the laws of marriage applicable to them or the absence of such a legal relationship. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 4602
• Member: means a person who is admitted to a limited liability company as a member as provided in § 18-301 of this title, and includes a member of the limited liability company generally and a member associated with a series of the limited liability company. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 18-101
• Oral argument: An opportunity for lawyers to summarize their position before the court and also to answer the judges' questions.
• Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
• Panel: means 3 or more Commissioners appointed by the Chair to perform any act authorized under this chapter. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 4602
• Person: includes 1 or more individuals, corporations, partnerships, associations, labor organizations, legal representatives, mutual companies, joint-stock companies, trusts, unincorporated organizations, trustees, trustees in bankruptcy in cases under Title 11 of the United States Code, receivers, fiduciaries and land use commissions or boards. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 4602
• Person: means a natural person, partnership (whether general or limited), limited liability company, trust (including a common law trust, business trust, statutory trust, voting trust or any other form of trust), estate, association (including any group, organization, co-tenancy, plan, board, council or committee), corporation, government (including a country, state, county or any other governmental subdivision, agency or instrumentality), custodian, nominee or any other individual or entity (or series thereof) in its own or any representative capacity, in each case, whether domestic or foreign. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 17-101
• Personal representative: means , as to a natural person, the executor, administrator, guardian, conservator or other legal representative thereof and, as to a person other than a natural person, the legal representative or successor thereof. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 17-101
• Place of business: shall mean the main or permanent branch office or a permanent local address of a seller, not including a hotel room, motel room or other temporary quarters. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 4403
• 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.
• President pro tempore: A constitutionally recognized officer of the Senate who presides over the chamber in the absence of the Vice President. The President Pro Tempore (or, "president for a time") is elected by the Senate and is, by custom, the Senator of the majority party with the longest record of continuous service.
• Protective hairstyle: includes braids, locks, and twists. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 4602
• Public debt: Cumulative amounts borrowed by the Treasury Department or the Federal Financing Bank from the public or from another fund or account. The public debt does not include agency debt (amounts borrowed by other agencies of the Federal Government). The total public debt is subject to a statutory limit.
• Purchase price: shall mean the total price paid or to be paid for the consumer goods or services, including all interest and service charges. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 4403
• Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
• Race: includes traits historically associated with race, including hair texture and a protective hairstyle. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 4602
• Regulations: include any applicable federal regulations, state regulations, local regulations or regulations of the shopping center or a place of business within the shopping center, and include the regulating of the flow and direction of traffic in the parking areas of such shopping center as well as stop signs and no-parking regulations. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 4801
• Respondent: means :

  a. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 4602

• sale: includes a sale, gift, exchange or other means of conveyance. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 4602
• Seller: shall mean any person, partnership, corporation or association engaged in the door-to-door sale of consumer goods or services. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 4403
• Series: means a designated series of limited partners, general partners, partnership interests or assets that is a protected series or a registered series, or that is neither a protected series nor a registered series. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 17-101
• 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.
• Sexual orientation: includes heterosexuality, homosexuality, or bisexuality. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 4602
• Shopping center: shall mean any area composed of at least 3 places of business which is serviced by a common parking area. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 4801
• Source of income: means any lawful source of money paid directly, indirectly, or on behalf of a renter or buyer of housing including:

  a. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 4602

• Special Administration Fund: means the Fund established and maintained pursuant to § 3005 of Title 31. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 4602
• State: means the District of Columbia or the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico or any state, territory, possession, or other jurisdiction of the United States other than the State of Delaware. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 17-101
• Testify: Answer questions in court.
• Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
• 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.
• 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}
• Veto: The procedure established under the Constitution by which the President/Governor refuses to approve a bill or joint resolution and thus prevents its enactment into law. A regular veto occurs when the President/Governor returns the legislation to the house in which it originated. The President/Governor usually returns a vetoed bill with a message indicating his reasons for rejecting the measure. In Congress, the veto can be overridden only by a two-thirds vote in both the Senate and the House.
• Writ: A formal written command, issued from the court, requiring the performance of a specific act.