§ 2101 Acquisition and adaptation of housing: eligible veterans
§ 2101A Eligibility for benefits and assistance: members of the Armed Forces with service-connected disabilities; individuals residing outside the United States
§ 2102 Limitations on assistance furnished
§ 2102A Assistance for individuals residing temporarily in housing owned by a family member
§ 2102B Adaptations to residences of veterans in rehabilitation programs
§ 2103 Furnishing of plans and specifications
§ 2104 Benefits additional to benefits under other laws
§ 2105 Nonliability of United States
§ 2106 Veterans’ mortgage life insurance
§ 2107 Coordination of administration of benefits
§ 2108 Specially adapted housing assistive technology grant program
§ 2109 Specially adapted housing destroyed or damaged by natural disasters
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Terms Used In U.S. Code > Title 38 > Part II > Chapter 21 - Specially Adapted Housing for Disabled Veterans

  • Amortization: Paying off a loan by regular installments.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
  • 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.
  • Fair market value: The price at which an asset would change hands in a transaction between a willing, informed buyer and a willing, informed seller.
  • 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.
  • individual: shall include every infant member of the species homo sapiens who is born alive at any stage of development. See 1 USC 8
  • Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
  • Mortgage loan: A loan made by a lender to a borrower for the financing of real property. Source: OCC
  • 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.
  • writing: includes printing and typewriting and reproductions of visual symbols by photographing, multigraphing, mimeographing, manifolding, or otherwise. See 1 USC 1