Terms Used In Kansas Statutes > Chapter 44 > Article 3 - Payment of Compensation

• 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.
• 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
• Bankruptcy: Refers to statutes and judicial proceedings involving persons or businesses that cannot pay their debts and seek the assistance of the court in getting a fresh start. Under the protection of the bankruptcy court, debtors may discharge their debts, perhaps by paying a portion of each debt. Bankruptcy judges preside over these proceedings.
• Commission salesperson: means a person who contracts with and is authorized by a principal to solicit within this state wholesale orders for that principal for merchandise to be shipped into this state or services to be performed within this state and who is compensated therefor by commission. See Kansas Statutes 44-341
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Contractual relationship: means the relationship between a principal and a commission salesperson based on a contract between them providing for the commission salesperson to solicit and make sales within this state of merchandise to be shipped into or services to be performed within this state. See Kansas Statutes 44-341
• 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.
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• earned commissions: means commissions with respect to services or merchandise which actually has been delivered or furnished to, accepted by and paid for by the customer by the last day of the commission salesperson's contractual relationship. See Kansas Statutes 44-341
• Employee: means any person allowed or permitted to work by an employer. See Kansas Statutes 44-313
• Employer: means any individual, partnership, association, joint stock company, trust, corporation, limited liability company or other organization, the administrator or executor of the estate of a deceased individual, or the receiver, trustee, or successor of any of the same, the state of Kansas or any department, agency or authority of the state, any city, county, school district or other political subdivision, municipality or public corporation and any instrumentality thereof, employing any person. See Kansas Statutes 44-313
• 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.
• Month: means a calendar month, unless otherwise expressed. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
• 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.
• 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.
• Principal: means any individual, partnership, association, joint stock company, trust, corporation or administrator or executor of the estate of a deceased individual, or the receiver, trustee or successor thereof, contracting with a commission salesperson to solicit and make sales within this state for merchandise to be shipped into this state or services to be performed within this state. See Kansas Statutes 44-341
• Probate: Proving a will
• Property: includes personal and real property. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
• 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.
• Secretary: means the secretary of labor. See Kansas Statutes 44-313
• Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
• State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
• Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
• Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
• Wages: means compensation for labor or services rendered by an employee, whether the amount is determined on a time, task, piece, commission or other basis less authorized withholding and deductions. See Kansas Statutes 44-313