Terms Used In Kansas Statutes > Chapter 48 > Article 2 - Kansas Army and Air National Guard

• Adverse tier placement: means being subject to the rates of any tier with less coverage or higher premiums than the tier within which the insured is currently insured. See Kansas Statutes 48-291
• Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
• 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
• Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.
• 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}
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
• Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
• Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
• 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.
• 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.
• Federal government sponsored health insurance program: means the TriCare program providing coverage for civilian dependents of military personnel. See Kansas Statutes 48-291
• Health plan: means any insurance company or health maintenance organization which issues individual coverage to a resident of this state. See Kansas Statutes 48-291
• Individual coverage: means health insurance or health maintenance organization coverage issued on other than a group or blanket basis, including an individual coverage containing coverage for a spouse, dependent, or both. See Kansas Statutes 48-291
• Insureds: means persons enrolled under individual coverage issued by a health plan. See Kansas Statutes 48-291
• 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.
• Minor: means any person defined by Kan. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
• Month: means a calendar month, unless otherwise expressed. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
• Oath: includes an affirmation in all cases where an affirmation may be substituted for an oath, and in similar cases "swear" includes affirm. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
• Oath: A promise to tell the truth.
• Personal insurance: means private passenger automobile, motorcycle, mobile homeowners, homeowners, renters and non-commercial dwelling fire insurance policies and boat, personal watercraft, snowmobile and recreational vehicle policies. See Kansas Statutes 48-291
• Property: includes personal and real property. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
• Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
• Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
• real property: include lands, tenements and hereditaments, and all rights to them and interest in them, equitable as well as legal. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
• 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.
• seal: includes an impression of the seal upon the paper alone, as well as upon wax or a wafer affixed to the paper. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
• State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• Trial: A hearing that takes place when the defendant pleads "not guilty" and witnesses are required to come to court to give evidence.