Terms Used In Delaware Code > Title 16 > Chapter 84 - Trenches and Excavations

• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• controlled substance: includes "designer drug" as defined in paragraph (10) of this section. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 4701
• Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
• Designer drug: means a substance that has a chemical structure substantially similar to that of a controlled substance or that was specifically designed to or may produce an effect substantially similar to that of a controlled substance. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 4701
• Dose: means an amount or unit of a compound, mixture, or preparation containing a controlled substance that is separately identifiable and in a form that indicates that it is the amount or unit by which the controlled substance is separately administered to or taken by an individual. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 4701
• Drug: means (i) substances recognized as drugs in the official United States Pharmacopoeia, official Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia of the United States or official National Formulary or any supplement to any of them; (ii) substances intended for use in the diagnosis, cure, mitigation, treatment or prevention of disease in man or animals; (iii) substances (other than food) intended to affect the structure or any function of the body of man or animals; and (iv) substances intended for use as a component of any article specified in clause (i), (ii) or (iii) of this paragraph. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 4701
• Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
• Isomer: means the optical isomer, except as used in § 4714(d) of this title and § 4716(b)(4) of this title. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 4701
• Manufacture: means the production, preparation, propagation, compounding, conversion or processing of a controlled substance, either directly or indirectly by extraction from substances of natural origin, or independently by means of chemical synthesis or by a combination of extraction and chemical synthesis and includes any packaging or repackaging of the substance or labeling or relabeling of its container except that this term does not include the preparation or compounding of a controlled substance by an individual for the individual's own use or the preparation, compounding, packaging or labeling of a controlled substance:

  a. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 4701

• Marijuana: means all parts of the plant Cannabis sativa L. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 4701
• Person: means individual, corporation, government or governmental subdivision or agency, statutory trust, business trust, estate, trust, partnership or association, or any other legal entity. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 4701
• Prescription drug: means any drug required by federal or state law or regulation to be dispensed only by or on the prescription of a practitioner licensed to prescribe drugs, or which is restricted to use by practitioners only. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 4701
• State: when applied to a part of the United States, includes any state, district, commonwealth, territory, insular possession thereof and any area subject to the legal authority of the United States of America. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 4701