Terms Used In California Codes > Business and Professions Code > Division 9 > Chapter 15 - Tied-House Restrictions

• Advice and consent: Under the Constitution, presidential nominations for executive and judicial posts take effect only when confirmed by the Senate, and international treaties become effective only when the Senate approves them by a two-thirds vote.
• Affirmed: In the practice of the appellate courts, the decree or order is declared valid and will stand as rendered in the lower court.
• Allegation: something that someone says happened.
• Bequest: Property gifted by will.
• Board: means the Osteopathic Medical Board of California. See California Business and Professions Code 2361
• City: includes city and county. See California Business and Professions Code 18
• commission: means the Student Aid Commission. See California Education Code 70100
• commission: means the Student Aid Commission created by this article. See California Education Code 69515
• Committee: means a diversion evaluation committee created by this article. See California Business and Professions Code 2361
• Devise: To gift property by will.
• Dismissal: The dropping of a case by the judge without further consideration or hearing. ^Source:
• Diversion program: means a treatment program created by this article for osteopathic physicians and surgeons whose competency may be threatened or diminished due to abuse of drugs or alcohol. See California Business and Professions Code 2361
• Ex officio: Literally, by virtue of one's office.
• Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
• Greenhouse: means a structure covered with transparent or translucent materials for the purpose of admitting natural light and controlling the atmosphere for growing plants, including floricultural, ornamental, or other nursery and agricultural products. See California Food and Agricultural Code 33
• License: includes "certificate" "permit" and "registration. See California Business and Professions Code 2421
• Licensee: includes the holder of a license. See California Business and Professions Code 2421
• Licensing authority: means the board, which has jurisdiction over a particular licensee. See California Business and Professions Code 2421
• Nolo contendere: No contest-has the same effect as a plea of guilty, as far as the criminal sentence is concerned, but may not be considered as an admission of guilt for any other purpose.
• Oral argument: An opportunity for lawyers to summarize their position before the court and also to answer the judges' questions.
• Participant: means a California-licensed osteopathic physician and surgeon. See California Business and Professions Code 2361
• Personal property: All property that is not real property.
• Plea: In a criminal case, the defendant's statement pleading "guilty" or "not guilty" in answer to the charges, a declaration made in open court.
• Probable cause: A reasonable ground for belief that the offender violated a specific law.
• Program manager: means the staff manager of the diversion program, as designated by the executive officer of the board. See California Business and Professions Code 2361
• Sequester: To separate. Sometimes juries are sequestered from outside influences during their deliberations.
• Spouse: includes "registered domestic partner" as required by §. See California Business and Professions Code 14.2
• Testify: Answer questions in court.
• Verdict: The decision of a petit jury or a judge.