Terms Used In Kansas Statutes > Chapter 2 > Article 12 - Fertilizers

• 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.
• Annuity: A periodic (usually annual) payment of a fixed sum of money for either the life of the recipient or for a fixed number of years. A series of payments under a contract from an insurance company, a trust company, or an individual. Annuity payments are made at regular intervals over a period of more than one full year.
• 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.
• Appellate: About appeals; an appellate court has the power to review the judgement of another lower court or tribunal.
• 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
• Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
• Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
• Authority: means the riverfront authority created by this act. See Kansas Statutes 12-5602
• Authority: means the riverfront authority created by this act. See Kansas Statutes 12-5702
• Authority: means the riverfront authority created by this act. See Kansas Statutes 12-5802
• Bank: means the city land bank established pursuant to this act. See Kansas Statutes 12-5901
• Bequest: Property gifted by will.
• Board: means the riverfront board created by this act. See Kansas Statutes 12-5602
• Board: means the riverfront board created by this act. See Kansas Statutes 12-5702
• Board: means the riverfront board created by this act. See Kansas Statutes 12-5802
• Board: means the board of trustees of the city land bank. See Kansas Statutes 12-5901
• Bulk fertilizer: means any liquid, blended or dry fertilizer or fertilizer material stored in a fluid or dry nonpackage form. See Kansas Statutes 2-1226
• cemetery association: shall mean a cemetery association which is a private corporation chartered as a voluntary association for charitable purposes and which controls, manages and maintains a cemetery and cemetery lands; (b) the word "city" means a city of the second class. See Kansas Statutes 14-1047
• Charity: An agency, institution, or organization in existence and operating for the benefit of an indefinite number of persons and conducted for educational, religious, scientific, medical, or other beneficent purposes.
• City: means the city of Topeka. See Kansas Statutes 12-5602
• City: means the city of Fort Scott. See Kansas Statutes 12-5702
• City: means the city of De Soto. See Kansas Statutes 12-5802
• City: means any city. See Kansas Statutes 12-5901
• city: means a city of the second class. See Kansas Statutes 14-1047
• Commission: means the county commission of Shawnee county. See Kansas Statutes 12-5602
• Commission: means the county commission of Bourbon county. See Kansas Statutes 12-5702
• Commission: means the county commission of Johnson county. See Kansas Statutes 12-5802
• Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
• Conservator: means an individual or corporation appointed by the court to act on behalf of a conservatee and possessed of some or all of the powers and duties set out in Kan. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
• 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.
• Council: means the city council of Topeka. See Kansas Statutes 12-5602
• Council: means the city council of Fort Scott. See Kansas Statutes 12-5702
• Council: means the city council of De Soto. See Kansas Statutes 12-5802
• County: means Shawnee county. See Kansas Statutes 12-5602
• County: means Bourbon county. See Kansas Statutes 12-5702
• County: means Johnson county. See Kansas Statutes 12-5802
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Decision: means any rate decision of the board made pursuant to Kan. See Kansas Statutes 13-1228b
• Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
• Department: means the Kansas department of agriculture. See Kansas Statutes 2-1220
• Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
• Devise: To gift property by will.
• Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
• Docket: A log containing brief entries of court proceedings.
• Donor: The person who makes a gift.
• Entitlement: A Federal program or provision of law that requires payments to any person or unit of government that meets the eligibility criteria established by law. Entitlements constitute a binding obligation on the part of the Federal Government, and eligible recipients have legal recourse if the obligation is not fulfilled. Social Security and veterans' compensation and pensions are examples of entitlement programs.
• 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.
• Ex officio: Literally, by virtue of one's office.
• Facility: means a place where commercial fertilizer materials are stored, mixed, blended, manufactured, weighted or handled. See Kansas Statutes 2-1226
• Federal Reserve System: The central bank of the United States. The Fed, as it is commonly called, regulates the U.S. monetary and financial system. The Federal Reserve System is composed of a central governmental agency in Washington, D.C. (the Board of Governors) and twelve regional Federal Reserve Banks in major cities throughout the United States. ^{Source: OCC}
• Fee simple: Absolute title to property with no limitations or restrictions regarding the person who may inherit it.
• 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.
• Garnishment: Generally, garnishment is a court proceeding in which a creditor asks a court to order a third party who owes money to the debtor or otherwise holds assets belonging to the debtor to turn over to the creditor any of the debtor
• General election: refers to the election required to be held on the Tuesday following the first Monday in November of each even-numbered year. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
• Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
• Governing body: means the governing body of the city. See Kansas Statutes 12-5901
• Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
• Interest rate: The amount paid by a borrower to a lender in exchange for the use of the lender's money for a certain period of time. Interest is paid on loans or on debt instruments, such as notes or bonds, either at regular intervals or as part of a lump sum payment when the issue matures. ^{Source: OCC}
• 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.
• 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}
• Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
• Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
• Life estate: A property interest limited in duration to the life of the individual holding the interest (life tenant).
• Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants.
• Manager: means the city manager of Topeka. See Kansas Statutes 12-5602
• Manager: means the city manager of Fort Scott. See Kansas Statutes 12-5702
• Mayor: means the mayor of Topeka. See Kansas Statutes 12-5602
• Mayor: means the mayor of Fort Scott. See Kansas Statutes 12-5702
• Mayor: means the mayor of De Soto. See Kansas Statutes 12-5802
• Metropolitan area: includes the area within the corporate limits of the city of Topeka. See Kansas Statutes 12-5602
• Metropolitan area: includes the area within the corporate limits of the city of Fort Scott and within five miles of the corporate limits along the Marmaton river. See Kansas Statutes 12-5702
• Metropolitan area: includes the area within the corporate limits of the city of De Soto and within five miles of the corporate limits along the Kansas river. See Kansas Statutes 12-5802
• Minor: means any person defined by Kan. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
• Month: means a calendar month, unless otherwise expressed. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
• Municipality: means any city, county or other political or taxing subdivision which has the power to levy special assessments. See Kansas Statutes 12-5901
• Oath: A promise to tell the truth.
• Oath: includes an affirmation in all cases where an affirmation may be substituted for an oath, and in similar cases "swear" includes affirm. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
• 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.
• Oral argument: An opportunity for lawyers to summarize their position before the court and also to answer the judges' questions.
• Outlays: Outlays are payments made (generally through the issuance of checks or disbursement of cash) to liquidate obligations. Outlays during a fiscal year may be for payment of obligations incurred in prior years or in the same year.
• parking stations: includes parking lots, passageways, arcades, and facilities for ingress and egress to parking facilities. See Kansas Statutes 13-1374
• 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.
• Party: means any affected utility customer who intervened at the public hearing of the board held pursuant to Kan. See Kansas Statutes 13-1228b
• Person: means any individual, any association of persons or any corporation. See Kansas Statutes 2-1220
• Plaintiff: The person who files the complaint in a civil lawsuit.
• Pleadings: Written statements of the parties in a civil case of their positions. In the federal courts, the principal pleadings are the complaint and the answer.
• Precedent: A court decision in an earlier case with facts and law similar to a dispute currently before a court. Precedent will ordinarily govern the decision of a later similar case, unless a party can show that it was wrongly decided or that it differed in some significant way.
• Presiding officer: A majority-party Senator who presides over the Senate and is charged with maintaining order and decorum, recognizing Members to speak, and interpreting the Senate's rules, practices and precedents.
• product: means the compound formed by the combination of the two gaseous elements, nitrogen and hydrogen, in the proportion of one part nitrogen to three parts hydrogen (by volume), and used or intended for use as an agricultural fertilizer. See Kansas Statutes 2-1220
• Property: includes personal and real property. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
• 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.
• 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.
• Residence: means the place which is adopted by a person as the person's place of habitation and to which, whenever the person is absent, the person has the intention of returning. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
• Riverfront: means all real estate, equipment, rights and property useful for the purpose of recreation, along the banks of the Kansas river that runs through the city of Topeka and Shawnee county. See Kansas Statutes 12-5602
• Riverfront: means all real estate, equipment, rights and property useful for the purpose of recreation, along the banks of the Marmaton river that runs through the city of Fort Scott and Bourbon county. See Kansas Statutes 12-5702
• Riverfront: means all real estate, equipment, rights and property useful for the purpose of recreation, along the banks of the Kansas river that runs through the city of De Soto and Johnson county. See Kansas Statutes 12-5802
• road: include public bridges and may be construed to be equivalent to "county way" "county road" "common road" "state road" and "territorial road. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
• seal: includes an impression of the seal upon the paper alone, as well as upon wax or a wafer affixed to the paper. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
• Secretary: means the secretary of agriculture. See Kansas Statutes 2-1220
• State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• Statute of limitations: A law that sets the time within which parties must take action to enforce their rights.
• Summons: Another word for subpoena used by the criminal justice system.
• Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
• Tort: A civil wrong or breach of a duty to another person, as outlined by law. A very common tort is negligent operation of a motor vehicle that results in property damage and personal injury in an automobile accident.
• Transcript: A written, word-for-word record of what was said, either in a proceeding such as a trial or during some other conversation, as in a transcript of a hearing or oral deposition.
• Trial: A hearing that takes place when the defendant pleads "not guilty" and witnesses are required to come to court to give evidence.
• Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
• Undertaking: means a promise or security in any form where required by law. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
• University: means Washburn university of Topeka;

  (b) "state board" means the state board of regents; and

  (c) "state grant" means the operating grant provided for under subsection (a) of Kan. See Kansas Statutes 13-13a40

• Uphold: The decision of an appellate court not to reverse a lower court decision.
• Veto: The procedure established under the Constitution by which the President/Governor refuses to approve a bill or joint resolution and thus prevents its enactment into law. A regular veto occurs when the President/Governor returns the legislation to the house in which it originated. The President/Governor usually returns a vetoed bill with a message indicating his reasons for rejecting the measure. In Congress, the veto can be overridden only by a two-thirds vote in both the Senate and the House.
• Ward: means a person who has a guardian. See Kansas Statutes 77-201