Terms Used In South Carolina Code > Title 3 > Chapter 7 - Agreements With United States

• 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.
• Agreement: shall mean contract and shall include renewals and alterations of a contract;
  
  (2) "Political subdivision" shall mean any agency or unit of this State, corporate or otherwise, which is authorized to levy taxes or empowered to cause taxes to be levied;
  
  (3) "Services" shall mean such public and municipal functions as are performed for property in and persons residing within a political subdivision; and
  
  (4) "Project" shall mean any reforestation project, resettlement project or rural rehabilitation project for resettlement purposes of the United States located within a political subdivision and shall include the persons inhabiting such project. See South Carolina Code 3-7-110
• 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
• Continuance: Putting off of a hearing ot trial until a later time.
• Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
• Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
• Dismissal: The dropping of a case by the judge without further consideration or hearing. ^Source:
• Ex officio: Literally, by virtue of one's office.
• 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.
• Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
• municipality: shall mean an incorporated city or town, irrespective of its population;
  
  (2) The term "municipal council" shall mean the governing body of any incorporated city or town; and
  
  (3) The word "assessments" shall denote such sums as may be due to the municipality by reason of improvements to streets and sidewalks, in the nature of roadway paving, sidewalk paving, the installation of curbs, the installation of gutters, the installation of storm drains or sewers, the paving of sidewalk or roadway intersections, street lighting or any other improvement for which such municipality shall be authorized to pay, in whole or in part, through the means of assessments against the real property benefited thereby. See South Carolina Code 5-21-620
• 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.
• Probable cause: A reasonable ground for belief that the offender violated a specific law.
• Probate: Proving a will
• Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
• Trial: A hearing that takes place when the defendant pleads "not guilty" and witnesses are required to come to court to give evidence.