Terms Used In Delaware Code > Title 1 > Chapter 4 - Uniform Electronic Legal Material Act

• Answer: The formal written statement by a defendant responding to a civil complaint and setting forth the grounds for defense.
• Contract agreement: means a written or oral contract or agreement between a dealer and a supplier by which the dealer is granted the right to sell their equipment and the dealer is required to order and maintain an inventory in excess of $25,000 at current net price from the supplier. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 2720
• Current net price: means the price listed in the supplier's price list in effect at the time the contract agreement is terminated, less any applicable discount allowed. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 2720
• Dealer: means a person, firm or corporation engaged in the business of selling, at retail, construction, farm, industrial or outdoor power equipment and who maintains a total inventory of new equipment and repair parts valued at $50,000 or over and provides repair service for the above-mentioned equipment. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 2720
• Decedent: A deceased person.
• Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
• 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.
• Executor: A male person named in a will to carry out the decedent
• Guardian: A person legally empowered and charged with the duty of taking care of and managing the property of another person who because of age, intellect, or health, is incapable of managing his (her) own affairs.
• Inventory: means the tractors, implements, attachments, equipment and repair parts that the dealer purchased from the supplier. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 2720
• Legacy: A gift of property made by will.
• Manager: means a person who is named as a manager of a limited liability company in, or designated as a manager of a limited liability company pursuant to, a limited liability company agreement or similar instrument under which the limited liability company is formed, and includes a manager of the limited liability company generally and a manager associated with a series of the limited liability company. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 18-101
• Net cost: means the price the dealer paid the supplier for the inventory, less all applicable discounts allowed, plus the amount the dealer paid for freight costs from the supplier's location to the dealer's location, plus reasonable cost of assembly performed by the dealer. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 2720
• outdoor power: when used to refer to tractors, implements, attachments or repair parts, have the meanings commonly used and understood among dealers and suppliers of those trades. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 2720
• Partner: means a limited or general partner. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 17-101
• Person: means a natural person, partnership (whether general or limited), limited liability company, trust (including a common law trust, business trust, statutory trust, voting trust or any other form of trust), estate, association (including any group, organization, co-tenancy, plan, board, council or committee), corporation, government (including a country, state, county or any other governmental subdivision, agency or instrumentality), custodian, nominee or any other individual or entity (or series thereof) in its own or any representative capacity, in each case, whether domestic or foreign. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 17-101
• Personal representative: means , as to a natural person, the executor, administrator, guardian, conservator or other legal representative thereof and, as to a person other than a natural person, the legal representative or successor thereof. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 17-101
• Plaintiff: The person who files the complaint in a civil lawsuit.
• State: means the District of Columbia or the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico or any state, territory, possession, or other jurisdiction of the United States other than the State of Delaware. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 17-101
• Supplier: means a wholesaler, manufacturer or distributor who enters into a contract agreement with a dealer. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 2720
• Year: means a calendar year, and is equivalent to the words "year of our Lord. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302