Terms Used In Delaware Code > Title 6 > Chapter 25 > Subchapter IX - Home Food Service Plan Sales

• Buyer: means both the actual and prospective purchaser of a home food service plan, but does not include persons purchasing for resale. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 2587
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Contract: means all of the collective written or oral agreements between a seller and a buyer relating to the purchase of a home food service plan, except promissory notes or other financing agreements. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 2587
• 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.
• Document: means :

  a. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 17-101

• dollars: means lawful money of the United States. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302
• Food item: means each edible product sold as part of a home food service plan, including, but not limited to, each constituent part or kind of meat cut from a primal source, each kind of whole poultry or poultry part, seafood products and other like products. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 2587
• Home food service plan: means a plan of food items or food items in combination with non-food items and/or service offered by the seller for profit and for sale in the consumer's home, whether or not a membership fee or similar charge is involved. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 2587
• Item price: means the price of a food or non-food item sold as part of a home food service plan, computed to the nearest tenth of 1 cent when less than $1. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 2587
• 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.
• Non-food item: means each inedible product sold as part of a home food service plan, including, but not limited to, paper products, health and beauty products, detergents, cleaners and disinfectants, rolls of wrapping and like products. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 2587
• Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
• 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
• Primal source: means the following cuts:

  a. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 2587

• Products: means any tangible items offered for sale irrespective of their nature, including, without limiting the generality of the term, all types of publications. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 2551
• Seller: means any person, partnership, corporation or association, however organized, engaged in the sale of a home food service plan. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 2587
• Service charge: means the total price for any additional features, services and processing associated with the purchase of a home food service plan, whether stated in terms of membership fees or otherwise. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 2587
• 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
• State: means the State of Delaware; and when applied to different parts of the United States, it includes the District of Columbia and the several territories and possessions of the United States. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302
• United States: includes its territories and possessions and the District of Columbia. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302