Terms Used In Delaware Code > Title 9 > Chapter 7 > Subchapter III - Officers; Elections; Powers and Duties

• Applicant: shall mean any person filing an application for registration of a trademark under this chapter, the applicant's legal representatives, successors or assigns. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 3302
• 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
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• 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.
• Court: means the Court of Chancery. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 3314
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• 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.
• Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
• 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.
• Legal voter: means every citizen resident in a proposed or existing park district, who would be entitled at the time of holding an election under this chapter to register and vote in any election district of which a proposed or existing park district is a part at a general election, if such general election were to be held at the time of any election under this chapter, whether or not he or she is at that time a registered voter. See Delaware Code Title 9 Sec. 702
• Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
• Mark: shall include any trademark or service mark entitled to registration under this chapter, whether registered or not. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 3302
• Member: means a person who is admitted to a limited liability company as a member as provided in § 18-301 of this title, and includes a member of the limited liability company generally and a member associated with a series of the limited liability company. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 18-101
• Oath: A promise to tell the truth.
• Oath: includes affirmation in all cases where an affirmation may be substituted for an oath, and "sworn" includes affirmed; and the forms shall be varied accordingly. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302
• Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
• 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: shall mean any individual, firm, partnership, corporation, association, union or other organization. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 3302
• Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
• Registrant: shall mean the person to whom the registration of a trademark under this chapter is issued, that person's legal representatives, successors or assigns. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 3302
• 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.
• Service mark: shall mean a mark used in the sale or advertising of services to identify the services of 1 person and distinguish them from the services of others. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 3302
• 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
• Trade name: shall mean a word, name, symbol, device or any combination thereof used by a person to identify a business, vocation or occupation and distinguish it from the business, vocation or occupation of others. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 3302
• Trademark: shall mean any word, name, symbol or device or any combination thereof adopted and used by a person to identify goods made or sold by that person, and to distinguish them from goods made or sold by others. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 3302
• United States: includes its territories and possessions and the District of Columbia. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302
• Year: means a calendar year, and is equivalent to the words "year of our Lord. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302