Terms Used In Alaska Statutes > Title 24 > Chapter 50 - Student Guests of Legislature

• 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
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Decedent: A deceased person.
• Devise: To gift property by will.
• Intestate: Dying without leaving a will.
• Minority leader: See Floor Leaders
• Probate: Proving a will
• Testator: A male person who leaves a will at death.