Terms Used In Idaho Code > Title 6 > Chapter 19 - Limitation of a Mental Health Professional'S Duty to Warn

• Answer: The formal written statement by a defendant responding to a civil complaint and setting forth the grounds for defense.
• 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.
• Board: means the state board of education. See Idaho Code 33-1303
• Bureau: means the Idaho bureau of educational services for the deaf and the blind. See Idaho Code 33-1303
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Deaf: means a person who is not able to process information aurally and whose primary means of communication is visual. See Idaho Code 33-1303
• Deaf-blind: means a person who is deaf or hard of hearing and who also has significant visual impairment or is legally blind. See Idaho Code 33-1303
• Director: means the director of the department of finance. See Idaho Code 26-31-102
• Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
• Educational interpreter: means a person employed in the Idaho public schools, kindergarten through grade twelve (12), to provide interpreting services to students who are deaf, hard of hearing or deaf-blind. See Idaho Code 33-1303
• Educational interpreter performance assessment: means a statistically valid and reliable assessment tool administered by the boys town national research hospital or its successor organization. See Idaho Code 33-1303
• Equitable: Pertaining to civil suits in "equity" rather than in "law." In English legal history, the courts of "law" could order the payment of damages and could afford no other remedy. See damages. A separate court of "equity" could order someone to do something or to cease to do something. See, e.g., injunction. In American jurisprudence, the federal courts have both legal and equitable power, but the distinction is still an important one. For example, a trial by jury is normally available in "law" cases but not in "equity" cases. ^{Source: U.S. Courts}
• 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.
• Guardian: A person legally empowered and charged with the duty of taking care of and managing the property of another person who because of age, intellect, or health, is incapable of managing his (her) own affairs.
• Hard of hearing: means a person who has a hearing deficit, who is able to process information aurally with or without the use of a hearing aid or other device that enhances the ability of the person to hear, and whose primary means of communication may be visual. See Idaho Code 33-1303
• Interpreter education program: means a postsecondary degree program of at least two (2) years in duration that is accredited by the state board of education or an equivalent program accredited by another state, district or territory or by a professional accreditation body. See Idaho Code 33-1303
• Interpreting: means the process of providing accessible communication between and among persons who are deaf, hard of hearing or deaf-blind, and those who are hearing. See Idaho Code 33-1303
• 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}
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