Terms Used In South Carolina Code > Title 41 > Chapter 33 - Employment and Workforce - Funds

• 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.
• Bed and breakfast: means a residential-type lodging facility having no more than ten guestrooms where transient guests are fed and lodged for pay. See South Carolina Code 45-4-20
• Clerk of court: An officer appointed by the court to work with the chief judge in overseeing the court's administration, especially to assist in managing the flow of cases through the court and to maintain court records.
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
• 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}
• 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.
• Ex officio: Literally, by virtue of one's office.
• Guestroom: means a sleeping room, or a combination of rooms for sleeping and sitting, which includes, among other amenities:
  
  (1) a bed or beds;
  
  (2) a private or shared bathroom;
  
  (3) clothes hanging and storage amenities; and
  
  (4) a selection of furniture and lighting. See South Carolina Code 45-4-20
• hotel: as used in this chapter is an inn or public lodginghouse of more than ten bedrooms where transient guests are fed or lodged for pay in this State. See South Carolina Code 45-5-10
• Innkeeper: means the proprietor of a bed and breakfast. See South Carolina Code 45-4-20
• 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}
• 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.
• Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
• Residential kitchen: means a private-home-type kitchen in a bed and breakfast used for food service to registered guests as well as the innkeeper. See South Carolina Code 45-4-20
• Residential-type lodging facility: means a facility that:
  
  (1) serves as both the innkeeper's residence and a place of lodging for transient guests; and
  
  (2) is primarily residential in style with regard to the amenities provided to guests. See South Carolina Code 45-4-20
• Restitution: The court-ordered payment of money by the defendant to the victim for damages caused by the criminal action.
• transient guests: as used in this chapter shall mean one who puts up for less than one week at such a hotel. See South Carolina Code 45-5-10