Terms Used In U.S. Code > Title 16 > Chapter 22 - International Parks

• Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
• Continuance: Putting off of a hearing ot trial until a later time.
• day: means the time from eight o'clock antemeridian to five o'clock postmeridian. See 19 USC 1401
• Devise: To gift property by will.
• Docket: A log containing brief entries of court proceedings.
• master: means the person having the command of the vessel. See 19 USC 1401
• merchandise: means goods, wares, and chattels of every description, and includes merchandise the importation of which is prohibited, and monetary instruments as defined in section 5312 of title 31. See 19 USC 1401
• night: means the time from five o'clock postmeridian to eight o'clock antemeridian. See 19 USC 1401
• person: includes partnerships, associations, and corporations. See 19 USC 1401
• 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.
• Secretary: means the Secretary of the Treasury or his delegate. See 19 USC 1401
• Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
• United States: includes all Territories and possessions of the United States except the Virgin Islands, American Samoa, Wake Island, Midway Islands, Kingman Reef, Johnston Island, and the island of Guam. See 19 USC 1401
• vehicle: includes every description of carriage or other contrivance used, or capable of being used, as a means of transportation on land, but does not include aircraft. See 19 USC 1401
• vessel: includes every description of watercraft or other artificial contrivance used, or capable of being used, as a means of transportation on water. See 1 USC 3