Terms Used In Alaska Statutes > Title 35 > Chapter 20 - Acquisition and Disposition of Property

• Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
• commissioner: means the commissioner of education and early development. See Alaska Statutes 14.60.010
• Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
• department: means the Department of Education and Early Development. See Alaska Statutes 14.60.010
• Fee simple: Absolute title to property with no limitations or restrictions regarding the person who may inherit it.
• Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants.
• person: includes a corporation, company, partnership, firm, association, organization, business trust, or society, as well as a natural person. See Alaska Statutes 01.10.060
• property: includes real and personal property. See Alaska Statutes 01.10.060
• Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
• Remainder: An interest in property that takes effect in the future at a specified time or after the occurrence of some event, such as the death of a life tenant.
• state: means the State of Alaska unless applied to the different parts of the United States and in the latter case it includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Alaska Statutes 01.10.060