Terms Used In Delaware Code > Title 7 > Chapter 47 - State Parks

• Adjourn: A motion to adjourn a legislative chamber or a committee, if passed, ends that day's session.
• 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.
• Affirmed: In the practice of the appellate courts, the decree or order is declared valid and will stand as rendered in the lower court.
• 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.
• Animal food manufacturer: means any person engaged in the business of preparing animal (including poultry) food derived wholly or in part from livestock or poultry carcasses or parts or products of such carcasses. See Delaware Code Title 3 Sec. 8703
• 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.
• Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.
• Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
• Attorney-at-law: A person who is legally qualified and licensed to practice law, and to represent and act for clients in legal proceedings.
• Bail: Security given for the release of a criminal defendant or witness from legal custody (usually in the form of money) to secure his/her appearance on the day and time appointed.
• Bequest: Property gifted by will.
• Board: means the Board of Directors of the Fort DuPont Redevelopment and Preservation Corporation. See Delaware Code Title 7 Sec. 4732
• Broker: means any person engaged in the business of buying or selling livestock products or poultry products on commission, or otherwise negotiating purchases or sales of such articles other than for such broker's own account or as an employee of another person. See Delaware Code Title 3 Sec. 8703
• Commission: means the Delaware Harness Racing Commission. See Delaware Code Title 3 Sec. 10001
• Commission: means "Regional Planning Commission of Kent County" created by this chapter. See Delaware Code Title 9 Sec. 4801
• Commissioner: means a member of the Delaware Harness Racing Commission. See Delaware Code Title 3 Sec. 10001
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
• Corporation: means the Fort DuPont Redevelopment and Preservation Corporation to be established pursuant to § 4733 of this title. See Delaware Code Title 7 Sec. 4732
• Council: means "the Council of the Mayor and Council of Dover. See Delaware Code Title 9 Sec. 4801
• Counterclaim: A claim that a defendant makes against a plaintiff.
• County government: means the county governing body of Kent County. See Delaware Code Title 9 Sec. 4801
• Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
• Department: means the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control. See Delaware Code Title 7 Sec. 4732
• Deposition: An oral statement made before an officer authorized by law to administer oaths. Such statements are often taken to examine potential witnesses, to obtain discovery, or to be used later in trial.
• Devise: To gift property by will.
• District: means "Regional Planning District of Kent County" created by this chapter. See Delaware Code Title 9 Sec. 4801
• Docket: A log containing brief entries of court proceedings.
• dollars: means lawful money of the United States. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302
• Ex officio: Literally, by virtue of one's office.
• Executor: A male person named in a will to carry out the decedent
• Fair market value: The price at which an asset would change hands in a transaction between a willing, informed buyer and a willing, informed seller.
• federal acts: means these 2 federal laws. See Delaware Code Title 3 Sec. 8703
• Federal Meat Inspection Act: means the act so entitled approved March 4, 1907 (34 Stat. See Delaware Code Title 3 Sec. 8703
• federal Poultry Products Inspection Act: means the act so entitled approved August 28, 1957 (71 Stat. See Delaware Code Title 3 Sec. 8703
• Fort DuPont: means such real property, as well as such facilities, personal property, buildings, and fixtures located thereon, owned by the State along the Delaware River bounded by the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal on the south, and a branch canal, currently separating it from Delaware City, on the north, which includes the Fort DuPont State Park, the Governor Bacon Health Center, and surrounding lands, formerly tax parcel numbers 1202300020, 1202300021, 1203000001, and 1203000002. See Delaware Code Title 7 Sec. 4732
• Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
• Immediate container: includes any consumer package; or any other container, not consumer package, in which livestock products or poultry products, are packed. See Delaware Code Title 3 Sec. 8703
• Infant: means a person who has not reached the age of 18 years. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302
• Inspector: means an employee or official of the Department authorized by the Secretary or any employee or official of the government of any county or other governmental subdivision of this State, authorized by the Secretary to perform any inspection functions under this chapter under an agreement between the Secretary and such governmental subdivision. See Delaware Code Title 3 Sec. 8703
• Intrastate commerce: means commerce within this State. See Delaware Code Title 3 Sec. 8703
• Label: includes display of written, printed, or graphic matter upon any article or the immediate container (not including package liners) of any article. See Delaware Code Title 3 Sec. 8703
• Labeling: includes all labels and other written, printed, or graphic matter (a) upon any article or any of its containers or wrappers, or (b) accompanying such article. See Delaware Code Title 3 Sec. 8703
• Land development: means "any tract or parcel of land upon which is proposed the construction or erection of 1 or more commercial, industrial, multi-family, or mobile home park use. See Delaware Code Title 9 Sec. 4801
• Livestock: means any cattle, sheep, swine, goats, horses, mules or other equines, whether live or dead. See Delaware Code Title 3 Sec. 8703
• Meat food product: means any product capable of use as human food which is made wholly or in part from any meat or other portion of the carcass of any cattle, sheep, swine, or goats, excepting products which contain meat or other portions of such carcasses only in a relatively small proportion or historically have not been considered by consumers as products of the meat food industry, and which are exempted from definition as a meat food product by the Secretary under such conditions as the Secretary may prescribe to assure that the meat or other portions of such carcass contained in such product are not adulterated and that such products are not represented as meat food products. See Delaware Code Title 3 Sec. 8703
• Minor subdivision: means any subdivision of land that creates 5 or less, or no, parcels of land and if a parcel of land is created, either said created parcel is not on a new road, or said created parcel or parcels is on a private road approved pursuant to regulations adopted by the county government; and shall apply only to the creation of up to a 5 parcel minor subdivision and shall not apply to the creation of parcels in excess of a total of 5 off of the tract of land from which minor subdivision is sought. See Delaware Code Title 9 Sec. 4801
• Official inspection legend: means any symbol prescribed by regulations of the Secretary showing that an article was inspected and passed in accordance with this chapter. See Delaware Code Title 3 Sec. 8703
• Official mark: means the official inspection legend or any other symbol prescribed by regulations of the Secretary to identify the status of any article or livestock or poultry under this chapter. See Delaware Code Title 3 Sec. 8703
• package: includes any box, can, tin, cloth, plastic, or other receptacle, wrapper, or cover. See Delaware Code Title 3 Sec. 8703
• Person: includes any individual, partnership, corporation, association, or other business unit, and any officer, agent or employee thereof. See Delaware Code Title 3 Sec. 8703
• Personal property: All property that is not real property.
• Plaintiff: The person who files the complaint in a civil lawsuit.
• Poultry: means any domesticated bird, whether live or dead. See Delaware Code Title 3 Sec. 8703
• Poultry product: means any poultry carcass or part thereof; or any product which is made wholly or in part from any poultry carcass or part thereof, excepting products which contain poultry ingredients only in a relatively small proportion or historically have not been considered by consumers as products of the poultry food industry, and which are exempted by the Secretary from definition as a poultry product under such conditions as the Secretary may prescribe to assure that the poultry ingredients in such products are not adulterated and that such products are not represented as poultry products. See Delaware Code Title 3 Sec. 8703
• Prepared: means slaughtered, canned, salted, stuffed, rendered, boned, cut up, or otherwise manufactured or processed. See Delaware Code Title 3 Sec. 8703
• President pro tempore: A constitutionally recognized officer of the Senate who presides over the chamber in the absence of the Vice President. The President Pro Tempore (or, "president for a time") is elected by the Senate and is, by custom, the Senator of the majority party with the longest record of continuous service.
• Probate: Proving a will
• Prosecute: To charge someone with a crime. A prosecutor tries a criminal case on behalf of the government.
• Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
• real property: is synonymous with the phrase "lands, tenements and hereditaments. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302
• Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
• Redevelopment plan: means the draft master plan for the redevelopment of the Fort DuPont complex dated October 2013, as may be amended from time to time by the Board, which is intended to guide the redevelopment of the Fort DuPont Complex. See Delaware Code Title 7 Sec. 4732
• Reinspection: includes inspection of the preparation of livestock products and poultry products, as well as reexamination of articles previously inspected. See Delaware Code Title 3 Sec. 8703
• Remand: When an appellate court sends a case back to a lower court for further proceedings.
• Renderer: means any person engaged in the business of rendering livestock or poultry carcasses, or parts or products of such carcasses, except rendering conducted under inspection or exemption under this chapter. See Delaware Code Title 3 Sec. 8703
• Restitution: The court-ordered payment of money by the defendant to the victim for damages caused by the criminal action.
• Road: includes any "road" "street" "highway" "freeway" "parkway" or other public thoroughfare. See Delaware Code Title 9 Sec. 4801
• Secretary: means the Secretary of Agriculture or the Secretary's delegate. See Delaware Code Title 3 Sec. 8703
• Service of process: The service of writs or summonses to the appropriate party.
• 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
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• Subdivision: means division of any part, parcel or area of land by the owner or the owner's agent, into lots or parcels 2 or more in number for the purpose of conveyance, transfer, improvement or sale with or without appurtenant roads, streets, lanes, driveways and ways dedicated or intended to be dedicated to public use, or the use of purchasers or owners of lots fronting thereon. See Delaware Code Title 9 Sec. 4801
• Summons: Another word for subpoena used by the criminal justice system.
• Testify: Answer questions in court.
• Trial: A hearing that takes place when the defendant pleads "not guilty" and witnesses are required to come to court to give evidence.
• United States: includes its territories and possessions and the District of Columbia. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302
• Writ: A formal written command, issued from the court, requiring the performance of a specific act.
• Year: means a calendar year, and is equivalent to the words "year of our Lord. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302