Terms Used In Delaware Code > Title 14 > Chapter 82 - Educational Compacts

• 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.
• Animal welfare officer: means an individual employed by the Department or employed by an independent contractor of the Department or by a municipality for the purpose of enforcing dog control laws, rules, regulations, and ordinances. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 3041F
• Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
• 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
• Approved: means acceptable to the authority having jurisdiction over the sale and use of portable oil-fueled heaters as hereinafter set forth. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 7306
• Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.
• Bank: means a Delaware state bank, out-of-state state bank, Delaware national bank or out-of-state national bank. See Delaware Code Title 5 Sec. 795
• Branch office: has the meaning specified in § 770 of this title. See Delaware Code Title 5 Sec. 795
• Continuance: Putting off of a hearing ot trial until a later time.
• 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.
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Delaware state bank: means a bank (as defined in § 101 of this title) chartered under the laws of this State. See Delaware Code Title 5 Sec. 795
• Department: means the Department of Health and Social Services. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 3041F
• Dog: means any dog or dog hybrid. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 3041F
• Donor: The person who makes a gift.
• Equitable: Pertaining to civil suits in "equity" rather than in "law." In English legal history, the courts of "law" could order the payment of damages and could afford no other remedy. See damages. A separate court of "equity" could order someone to do something or to cease to do something. See, e.g., injunction. In American jurisprudence, the federal courts have both legal and equitable power, but the distinction is still an important one. For example, a trial by jury is normally available in "law" cases but not in "equity" cases. ^{Source: U.S. Courts}
• Foreclosure: A legal process in which property that is collateral or security for a loan may be sold to help repay the loan when the loan is in default. ^{Source: OCC}
• Judge: means judge of elections. See Delaware Code Title 15 Sec. 101
• Judgement: The official decision of a court finally determining the respective rights and claims of the parties to a suit.
• Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
• Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). ^{Source: OCC}
• liquefied petroleum gas: as used in this chapter means any material which is composed predominately of any of the following hydrocarbons or mixtures of the same: Propane, propylene, butanes (normal butane and isobutane) and butylenes. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 7201
• Listed: means any portable oil-fueled heater which has been evaluated with respect to reasonably foreseeable hazards to life and property by any 1 of the following nationally recognized testing or inspection agencies: Underwriters Laboratories, Inc. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 7306
• Month: means a calendar month, unless otherwise expressed. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302
• Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
• Oil: means any liquid fuel with a flash point of greater than 100 degrees Fahrenheit, including but not limited to kerosene. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 7306
• owner: as used in this chapter means any person who holds a written bill of sale under which title or ownership to a container was transferred to such person or any manufacturer of a container who has not sold or transferred ownership thereof by written bill of sale. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 7201
• Owner: means any person who owns, keeps, harbors, or is the custodian of a dog. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 3041F
• person: as used in this chapter means any person, firm or corporation. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 7201
• Portable oil-fueled heater: means any nonflue-connected, self-contained, self-supporting, oil-fueled, heating appliance equipped with an integral reservoir, designed to be carried from 1 location to another. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 7306
• 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.
• Restitution: The court-ordered payment of money by the defendant to the victim for damages caused by the criminal action.
• State Board: consists of 9 members who are citizens of this State andappointed as follows:

  (1) The Governor shall appoint, with Senate confirmation, 7 voting members. See Delaware Code Title 14 Sec. 104

• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• Structure: means any building or completed construction of any kind, including but not limited to, private dwellings or to any structure used for business, commercial or industrial purposes, but not including buildings under construction or buildings used solely for agricultural purposes. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 7306
• Tort: A civil wrong or breach of a duty to another person, as outlined by law. A very common tort is negligent operation of a motor vehicle that results in property damage and personal injury in an automobile accident.