Terms Used In Delaware Code > Title 25 > Chapter 55 - Tenant Obligations and Landlord Remedies

• Affidavit: A written statement of facts confirmed by the oath of the party making it, before a notary or officer having authority to administer oaths.
• AIT: shall mean an individual who is registered with the Board to obtain the experience for licensure under the direct supervision of a preceptor. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 5202
• 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
• Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
• Bankruptcy: Refers to statutes and judicial proceedings involving persons or businesses that cannot pay their debts and seek the assistance of the court in getting a fresh start. Under the protection of the bankruptcy court, debtors may discharge their debts, perhaps by paying a portion of each debt. Bankruptcy judges preside over these proceedings.
• Board: shall mean the State Board of Massage and Bodywork established in this chapter. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 5302
• Board: shall mean the State Board of Examiners of Nursing Home Administrators established in this chapter. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 5202
• Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
• Continuance: Putting off of a hearing ot trial until a later time.
• Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Direct supervision: shall mean oversight on the premises of a nursing home. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 5202
• Division: shall mean the Division of Professional Regulation of the Department of State of Delaware. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 5302
• Division: shall mean the State Division of Professional Regulation. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 5202
• 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.
• Fee simple: Absolute title to property with no limitations or restrictions regarding the person who may inherit it.
• Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
• Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
• 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}
• Massage establishment: means any place of business that offers the practice of massage and bodywork and where the practice of massage and bodywork is conducted on the premises of the business, or that represents itself to the public by any title or description of services incorporating the words "bodywork" "massage" "massage therapy" "massage practitioner" "massagist" "masseur" "masseuse" or other words identified by the Board in regulation. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 5302
• Massage technician: shall mean a person, who is certified with the Board to perform certain functions within the practice of massage therapy, and who is authorized by the Board to use any title or description of services incorporating the words "bodywork" "massage" "massage practitioner" "massagist" "masseur" "masseuse" or "certified massage technician " but shall be prohibited from using the words "therapist" or "therapy. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 5302
• Month: means a calendar month, unless otherwise expressed. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302
• Nursing home: shall mean any licensed residential health facility for aged, infirm, chronically ill or convalescent persons, excluding neighborhood homes and group homes licensed by the Division of Health Care Quality, that provides shelter and food to more than 4 persons who:

  a. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 5202

• Nursing home administrator: shall mean the individual licensed under this chapter to practice nursing home administration. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 5202
• Person: shall mean an individual, firm, partnership, corporation, association, joint stock company, limited partnership, limited liability company, and any other legal entity and includes a legal successor of those entities. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 5202
• Person: shall mean a corporation, company, association and partnership, as well as an individual. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 5302
• place of business: includes any office, clinic, facility, salon, spa, or other location where a person or persons engage in the practice of massage and bodywork. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 5302
• Plaintiff: The person who files the complaint in a civil lawsuit.
• Practice of massage and bodywork: shall mean a system of structured touch applied to the superficial or deep tissue, muscle, or connective tissue, by applying pressure with manual means. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 5302
• Practice of nursing home administration: shall mean the performance of any act or the making of any decision involved in the planning, organizing, directing, or controlling of the operations of a nursing home, whether or not such acts are performed, or decisions made, by 1 or more persons. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 5202
• Preceptor: shall mean a state-licensed nursing home administrator who is qualified under this chapter and approved by the Board to exercise direct supervision of a registered nursing home administrator-in-training. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 5202
• Probation: A sentencing alternative to imprisonment in which the court releases convicted defendants under supervision as long as certain conditions are observed.
• Public law: A public bill or joint resolution that has passed both chambers and been enacted into law. Public laws have general applicability nationwide.
• 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.
• State: shall mean the State of Delaware. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 5202
• State: means any state of the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the U. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 5302
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• Summons: Another word for subpoena used by the criminal justice system.
• Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
• Year: means a calendar year, and is equivalent to the words "year of our Lord. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302