Terms Used In South Carolina Code > Title 15 > Chapter 67 > Article 9 - Determination Whether Life Tenant, Etc., Be Alive or Dead

• 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: means the bargain of the parties in fact, as found in their language or inferred from other circumstances and from rules, regulations, and procedures giving the effect of agreements under law otherwise applicable to a particular transaction. See South Carolina Code 26-6-20
• Automated transaction: means a transaction conducted or performed, in whole or in part, by electronic means or electronic records, in which the acts or records of any of the parties are not reviewed by an individual in the ordinary course in forming a contract, performing under an existing contract, or fulfilling an obligation required by the transaction. See South Carolina Code 26-6-20
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Contract: means the total legal obligation resulting from the agreement of the parties as affected by this chapter and other applicable law. See South Carolina Code 26-6-20
• Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Devise: To gift property by will.
• Electronic: means relating to technology having electrical, digital, magnetic, wireless, optical, electromagnetic, or similar capabilities. See South Carolina Code 26-6-20
• Electronic agent: means a computer program or an electronic or other automated means used independently to initiate an action or respond to electronic records or performances in whole or in part, without review or action by an individual. See South Carolina Code 26-6-20
• Electronic record: means a record created, generated, sent, communicated, received, or stored by electronic means. See South Carolina Code 26-6-20
• Electronic signature: means an electronic sound, symbol, or process attached to or logically associated with a record and executed or adopted by a person with the intent to sign the record. See South Carolina Code 26-6-20
• Governmental agency: means an executive, legislative, or judicial agency, department, board, commission, authority, institution, or instrumentality of the federal government or of a state or of a county, municipality, or other political subdivision of a state. See South Carolina Code 26-6-20
• 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.
• Individual: means a single natural person; one human being. See South Carolina Code 26-6-20
• Information: means data, text, images, sounds, codes, computer programs, software, databases, or other forms for the communication or reception of knowledge. See South Carolina Code 26-6-20
• Information processing system: means an electronic system for creating, generating, sending, receiving, storing, displaying, or processing information. See South Carolina Code 26-6-20
• Oath: A promise to tell the truth.
• Person: means an individual, corporation, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, limited liability company, association, joint venture, governmental agency, public corporation, or other legal or commercial entity. See South Carolina Code 26-6-20
• Record: means information that is inscribed on a tangible medium or that is stored in an electronic or other medium and is retrievable in perceivable form. See South Carolina Code 26-6-20
• Remainder: An interest in property that takes effect in the future at a specified time or after the occurrence of some event, such as the death of a life tenant.
• Service of process: The service of writs or summonses to the appropriate party.
• State: means a state of the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, or any territory or insular possession subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. See South Carolina Code 26-6-20
• Transaction: means an action or set of actions occurring between two or more persons relating to the conduct of business, commercial, or governmental affairs. See South Carolina Code 26-6-20
• Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
• United States Postal Service Electronic Postmark: means an electronic service provided by the United States Postal Service that provides evidentiary proof that an electronic document existed in a certain form at a certain time and the electronic document was opened or the contents of the electronic document were displayed at a time and date documented by the United States Post Office. See South Carolina Code 26-6-20