Terms Used In U.S. Code > Title 38 > Part II > Chapter 20 > Subchapter III - Training and Outreach

• Advice and consent: Under the Constitution, presidential nominations for executive and judicial posts take effect only when confirmed by the Senate, and international treaties become effective only when the Senate approves them by a two-thirds vote.
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Department: means the Department of Education or any component thereof. See 20 USC 3404
• Deputy Secretary: means the Deputy Secretary of Education. See 20 USC 3404
• Dismissal: The dropping of a case by the judge without further consideration or hearing. ^Source:
• 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.
• Foreclosure: A legal process in which property that is collateral or security for a loan may be sold to help repay the loan when the loan is in default. ^{Source: OCC}
• individual: shall include every infant member of the species homo sapiens who is born alive at any stage of development. See 1 USC 8
• 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.
• office: includes any office, institute, council, unit, organizational entity, or component thereof. See 20 USC 3404
• officer: includes any person authorized by law to perform the duties of the office. See 1 USC 1
• protocol: means the Protocol Relating to Intervention on the High Seas in Cases of Marine Pollution by Substances Other Than Oil, 1973, including annexes thereto. See 33 USC 1471
• Secretary: means the Secretary of the department in which the Coast Guard is operating. See 33 USC 1471
• Secretary: means the Secretary of Education. See 20 USC 3404
• ship: means &mdash. See 33 USC 1471
• State: includes the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, the Northern Mariana Islands, and the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands. See 20 USC 3404
• State: means a State, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, or any other territory or possession of the United States. See 1 USC 7
• United States: means the States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Canal Zone, Guam, American Samoa, the United States Virgin Islands, the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas, and any other commonwealth, territory, or possession of the United States. See 33 USC 1471