Terms Used In U.S. Code > Title 20 > Chapter 25A - Overseas Defense Dependents' Education

• administer: refers to the direct application of a controlled substance to the body of a patient or research subject by&mdash. See 21 USC 802
• 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.
• agent: means an authorized person who acts on behalf of or at the direction of a manufacturer, distributor, or dispenser. See 21 USC 802
• Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.
• Civil forfeiture: The loss of ownership of property used to conduct illegal activity.
• control: means to add a drug or other substance, or immediate precursor, to a schedule under part B of this subchapter, whether by transfer from another schedule or otherwise. See 21 USC 802
• controlled substance: means a drug or other substance, or immediate precursor, included in schedule I, II, III, IV, or V of part B of this subchapter. See 21 USC 802
• dispense: means to deliver a controlled substance to an ultimate user or research subject by, or pursuant to the lawful order of, a practitioner, including the prescribing and administering of a controlled substance and the packaging, labeling or compounding necessary to prepare the substance for such delivery. See 21 USC 802
• distribute: means to deliver (other than by administering or dispensing) a controlled substance or a listed chemical. See 21 USC 802
• drug: has the meaning given that term by section 321(g)(1) of this title. See 21 USC 802
• Drug Enforcement Administration: means the Drug Enforcement Administration in the Department of Justice. See 21 USC 802
• felony: means any Federal or State offense classified by applicable Federal or State law as a felony. See 21 USC 802
• Internet: means collectively the myriad of computer and telecommunications facilities, including equipment and operating software, which comprise the interconnected worldwide network of networks that employ the Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol, or any predecessor or successor protocol to such protocol, to communicate information of all kinds by wire or radio. See 21 USC 802
• Irrevocable trust: A trust arrangement that cannot be revoked, rescinded, or repealed by the grantor.
• listed chemical: means any list I chemical or any list II chemical. See 21 USC 802
• manufacture: means the production, preparation, propagation, compounding, or processing of a drug or other substance, either directly or indirectly or by extraction from substances of natural origin, or independently by means of chemical synthesis or by a combination of extraction and chemical synthesis, and includes any packaging or repackaging of such substance or labeling or relabeling of its container. See 21 USC 802
• Personal property: All property that is not real property.
• practitioner: means a physician, dentist, veterinarian, scientific investigator, pharmacy, hospital, or other person licensed, registered, or otherwise permitted, by the United States or the jurisdiction in which he practices or does research, to distribute, dispense, conduct research with respect to, administer, or use in teaching or chemical analysis, a controlled substance in the course of professional practice or research. See 21 USC 802
• Probable cause: A reasonable ground for belief that the offender violated a specific law.
• production: includes the manufacture, planting, cultivation, growing, or harvesting of a controlled substance. See 21 USC 802
• Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
• 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, and any commonwealth, territory, or possession of the United States. See 21 USC 802
• United States: when used in a geographic sense, means all places and waters, continental or insular, subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. See 21 USC 802
• Venue: The geographical location in which a case is tried.