Terms Used In Delaware Code > Title 7 > Chapter 41 > Subchapter VI - General Provisions

• 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.
• 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
• Consumer: means any person who acquires eggs for consumption in the person's own household and not for resale. See Delaware Code Title 3 Sec. 3501
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Eggs: means eggs in the shell that are the product of domesticated chickens. See Delaware Code Title 3 Sec. 3501
• Grade: means specifications defining the limits of variation in quality of eggs in such a manner as to differentiate among classes of eggs, and the letter, number or other symbol by which reference thereto may be made. See Delaware Code Title 3 Sec. 3501
• Market: means sell, offer for sale, give in the channels of commerce, barter, exchange, or distribute in any manner. See Delaware Code Title 3 Sec. 3501
• Person: means any individual, producer, firm, partnership, exchange, association, trustee, receiver, corporation or any other entity and any member, officer, employee or agent thereof. See Delaware Code Title 3 Sec. 3501
• 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