Terms Used In Connecticut General Statutes > Chapter 826 - Real Estate Syndicates

• Advertisement: means any written or printed communication or any communication by means of recorded telephone messages or spoken on radio, television or similar communications media, published in connection with the offer or sale of a real estate syndicate security. See Connecticut General Statutes 47-91
• 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.
• 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.
• Commission: means the Real Estate Commission. See Connecticut General Statutes 47-91
• Common law: The legal system that originated in England and is now in use in the United States. It is based on judicial decisions rather than legislative action.
• Continuance: Putting off of a hearing ot trial until a later time.
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• 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.
• Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
• Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
• 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}
• Escrow: Money given to a third party to be held for payment until certain conditions are met.
• 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.
• Executor: A male person named in a will to carry out the decedent
• Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
• Issuer: means any person who issues or proposes to issue any real estate syndicate security. See Connecticut General Statutes 47-91
• 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}
• Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
• 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.
• Permit: means a permit to sell real estate syndicate securities. See Connecticut General Statutes 47-91
• Plaintiff: The person who files the complaint in a civil lawsuit.
• Real estate syndicate: means any general or limited partnership, joint venture, unincorporated association, or similar organization, but not a corporation, owned beneficially for not less than eighteen persons and formed for the sole purpose of, and engaged solely in, investment in or gain from an interest in real property, including, but not limited to, a sale, exchange, trade or development. See Connecticut General Statutes 47-91
• Real estate syndicate security: means any interest in a real estate syndicate. See Connecticut General Statutes 47-91
• Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
• Restitution: The court-ordered payment of money by the defendant to the victim for damages caused by the criminal action.
• sell: includes every contract of sale of, contract to sell, or disposition of a real estate syndicate security for value and any exchange of a real estate syndicate security or any substantial change in the rights, preferences, privileges or restrictions of or on outstanding certificates of interest. See Connecticut General Statutes 47-91
• Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.