Delaware Code > Title 11 > Chapter 87 – Criminal Justice Council
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- Affirmed: In the practice of the appellate courts, the decree or order is declared valid and will stand as rendered in the lower court.
- Court: means the Court of Chancery. See Delaware Code Title 12 Sec. 39A-101
- Devise: To gift property by will.
- Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
- Legatee: A beneficiary of a decedent
- Proxy voting: The practice of allowing a legislator to cast a vote in committee for an absent legislator.
- Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
- Testator: A male person who leaves a will at death.
- Testatrix: The female counterpart of a testator.
- United States: includes its territories and possessions and the District of Columbia. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302
- Year: means a calendar year, and is equivalent to the words "year of our Lord. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302