Terms Used In Kansas Statutes > Chapter 4 > Article 4 - Senatorial Districts

• Act: means the real estate brokers' and salespersons' license act. See Kansas Statutes 58-3035
• Action: includes recoupment, counterclaim, setoff, suit in equity and any other proceeding in which rights are determined, including an action for possession. See Kansas Statutes 58-2543
• Adjacent property owner: means a person or entity, other than a responsible party, who owns property or facilities on or adjacent to a recreational trail. See Kansas Statutes 58-3211
• Administrator: means the state treasurer. See Kansas Statutes 58-3934
• Advance listing fee: means any fee charged for services related to promoting the sale or lease of real estate and paid in advance of the rendering of such services, including any fees charged for listing, advertising or offering for sale or lease any real estate, but excluding any fees paid solely for advertisement or for listing in a publication issued for the sole purpose of promoting the sale or lease of real estate wherein inquiries are directed to the owner of the real estate or to real estate brokers and not to unlicensed persons who publish the listing. See Kansas Statutes 58-3035
• 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.
• Affiliated licensee: means any individual licensed as a salesperson or broker under the Kansas real estate brokers' and salespersons' license act who is employed by a broker or affiliated with a broker as an independent contractor. See Kansas Statutes 58-30,102
• Agency: means every relationship in which a broker acts for or represents another, by the latter's express written authority, in a real estate transaction. See Kansas Statutes 58-30,102
• Agency agreement: means a written agreement setting forth the terms and conditions of the relationship between a broker and the broker's client. See Kansas Statutes 58-30,102
• Agricultural land: means land suitable for use in farming and includes roads, water, watercourses and private ways located upon or within the boundaries of such agricultural land and buildings, structures and machinery or equipment when attached to such agricultural land. See Kansas Statutes 58-3202
• AMC: means an individual, firm, partnership, association, corporation, limited liability company or any other business entity acting as an external third party authorized either by a creditor of a consumer credit transaction secured by a consumer's principal dwelling or by an underwriter of or other principal in the secondary mortgage markets:

  (1) That performs appraisal management services, regardless of the use of any of the following terms: Appraisal management company, mortgage technology provider, mortgage services provider, lender processing services provider, loan processor, real estate closing services provider, vendor management company or any other like term; and

  (2) such entity oversees an appraiser panel of:

  (A) More than 15 appraisers who are certified or licensed in Kansas; or

  (B) a total of more than 25 appraisers who are certified or licensed in Kansas and in any other jurisdiction. See Kansas Statutes 58-4703

• 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.
• Amortization: Paying off a loan by regular installments.
• 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.
• Apartment number: means the number, letter, or combination thereof designating the apartment or condominium unit in the declaration. See Kansas Statutes 58-3102
• Apartment owner: means the person or persons owning an apartment or condominium unit in fee simple absolute and an undivided interest in the fee simple estate of the common areas and facilities as specified and established in the declaration. See Kansas Statutes 58-3102
• Apparent owner: means the person whose name appears on the records of the holder as the person entitled to property held, issued or owing by the holder. See Kansas Statutes 58-3934
• 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.
• Appraisal: A determination of property value.
• Appraisal: has the meaning specified in Kan. See Kansas Statutes 58-4703
• Appraisal assignment: means an engagement for which an appraiser is employed or retained to act, or would be perceived by third parties or the public as acting, as a disinterested party in rendering an unbiased analysis, opinion or conclusion relating to the nature, quality, value or utility of specified interests in, or aspects of, identified real estate. See Kansas Statutes 58-4102
• Appraisal management services: means to perform or attempt to perform, directly or indirectly, any one or more of the following functions on behalf of a lender, financial institution, client, or any other person:

  (1) Administer an appraiser panel;

  (2) recruit, qualify, verify licensing or certification and negotiate fees and service level expectations with any person who is part of an appraiser panel;

  (3) receive an order for an appraisal from one entity and deliver the order for the appraisal to an appraiser that is part of an appraiser panel for completion;

  (4) track and determine the status of orders for appraisals;

  (5) conduct quality control of a completed appraisal prior to the delivery of such appraisal to the person that ordered the appraisal; or

  (6) submit a completed appraisal performed by an appraiser to one or more clients. See Kansas Statutes 58-4703

• Appraiser: means a person who develops and communicates real estate appraisals for real estate-related financial transactions and holds a current valid certification or license issued to such person under the provisions of Kan. See Kansas Statutes 58-4102
• Appraiser: means an individual who holds a credential issued by the Kansas real estate appraisal board pursuant to the state certified and licensed real property appraiser act entitling that individual to perform an appraisal of real property in the state of Kansas consistent with the scope of practice for such credential. See Kansas Statutes 58-4703
• Appraiser panel: means a network of one or more licensed or certified appraisers who are independent contractors to the AMC and have:

  (1) Responded to an invitation, request, or solicitation from an AMC, in any form, to perform appraisals for persons that have ordered appraisals through the AMC, or to perform appraisals for the AMC directly, on a periodic basis, as requested and assigned by the AMC; and

  (2) been selected and approved by an AMC to perform appraisals for any client of the AMC that has ordered an appraisal through the AMC, or to perform appraisals for the AMC directly, on a periodic basis, as assigned by the AMC. See Kansas Statutes 58-4703

• 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
• Assessment: means the sum attributable to each unit and due to the association pursuant to the budget adopted under Kan. See Kansas Statutes 58-4602
• Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
• Associate broker: means an individual who has a broker's license and who is employed by another broker or is associated with another broker as an independent contractor and participates in any activity described in subsection (f). See Kansas Statutes 58-3035
• association: shall mean and refer to a nonprofit corporation formed pursuant to article 60 of chapter 17 of the Kansas Statutes Annotated, which owns, in fee simple, the common areas and facilities for the common use and enjoyment of the townhouse owners, as set forth in the declaration and articles of incorporation. See Kansas Statutes 58-3702
• Association: means the unit owners association. See Kansas Statutes 58-4602
• Association of apartment owners: means all of the apartment or condominium unit owners acting as a group in accordance with the bylaws and declaration. See Kansas Statutes 58-3102
• Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
• Attorney-in-fact: A person who, acting as an agent, is given written authorization by another person to transact business for him (her) out of court.
• Auctioneer: means a person who conducts a public auction as herein defined;

  (b) "clerk" means: (a) the county clerk of the county wherein the public auction is to be held if the public auction is to be held outside the corporate limits of a city; (b) the city clerk, city license collector or other person or officer designated by a city to issue public auction licenses of the city wherein the public auction is to be held;

  (c) "inventory" means a list of new goods, wares and merchandise offered at public auction, showing make and model; also their serial number, if any;

  (d) "person" means and includes an individual, firm, association, corporation or any other legal entity;

  (e) "public auction" means the offering for sale or selling of new goods, wares or merchandise to the highest bidder or offering for sale or selling of new goods, wares or merchandise at a high price and then offering the same at successive lower prices until a buyer is secured; and

  (f) "new goods, wares and merchandise" means those not previously sold at retail. See Kansas Statutes 58-1015

• 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.
• Beneficiary: A person who is entitled to receive the benefits or proceeds of a will, trust, insurance policy, retirement plan, annuity, or other contract. ^{Source: OCC}
• Bequest: Property gifted by will.
• Board: means the real estate appraisal board established pursuant to the provisions of this act. See Kansas Statutes 58-4102
• Board: means the Kansas real estate appraisal board. See Kansas Statutes 58-4703
• Board of directors: means the body, regardless of name, designated in the declaration or bylaws which has power to act on behalf of the association. See Kansas Statutes 58-4602
• Branch broker: means an individual who has a broker's license and who has been designated to supervise a branch office and the activities of salespersons and associate brokers assigned to the branch office. See Kansas Statutes 58-3035
• Branch office: means a place of business other than the principal place of business of a broker. See Kansas Statutes 58-3035
• Broker: means an individual, other than a salesperson, who advertises or represents that such individual engages in the business of buying, selling, exchanging or leasing real estate or who, for compensation, engages in any of the following activities as an employee of, or on behalf of, the owner, purchaser, lessor or lessee of real estate:

  (1) Sells, exchanges, purchases or leases real estate. See Kansas Statutes 58-3035

• Brokerage firm: means the business entity of a broker, whether an association, corporation, limited liability company, limited liability partnership, partnership, proprietorship or professional corporation. See Kansas Statutes 58-30,102
• Building: means a building, containing one or more apartments or condominium units, or two or more buildings, each containing one or more apartments or condominium units and comprising a part of the property. See Kansas Statutes 58-3102
• Building and housing codes: includes any law, ordinance or governmental regulation concerning fitness for habitation, or the construction, maintenance, operation, occupancy, use or appearance of any premises or dwelling unit. See Kansas Statutes 58-2543
• Business association: means a corporation, joint-stock company, investment company, partnership, unincorporated association, joint venture, limited liability company, business trust, trust company, land bank, safe deposit company, safekeeping depository, financial organization, insurance company, mutual fund, utility, other business entity consisting of one or more persons, whether or not for profit or the United States government or any agency or subdivision thereof. See Kansas Statutes 58-3934
• Bylaws: means the instruments, however denominated, that contain the procedures for conduct of the affairs of the association, regardless of the form in which the association is organized, including any amendments to the instruments. See Kansas Statutes 58-4602
• Charge: means the admission price or fee asked in return for invitation or permission to enter or go upon the land. See Kansas Statutes 58-3202
• 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.
• Client: means a seller, landlord, buyer or tenant who has an agency with a broker. See Kansas Statutes 58-30,102
• Codicil: An addition, change, or supplement to a will executed with the same formalities required for the will itself.
• Commercial real estate: means any real estate and any interest therein, except:

  (1) Real estate containing one to four residential units;

  (2) real estate containing single-family residential units such as condominiums, townhouses or homes in a subdivision when sold, leased or otherwise conveyed on a unit by unit basis, even though these units may be a part of a larger building or parcel of real estate containing more than four residential units;

  (3) real estate on which no buildings or structures are located and which is zoned for single-family residential use; or

  (4) real estate used for agricultural purposes. See Kansas Statutes 58-30a02

• Commission: means the Kansas real estate commission. See Kansas Statutes 58-3035
• Common areas and facilities: shall mean any portion of the real estate and all improvements located thereon submitted to the provisions of this act owned by the association for the common use and enjoyment of the townhouse unit owners. See Kansas Statutes 58-3702
• Common elements: means those portions of the property not owned individually by unit owners, but in which an indivisible interest is held by all unit owners, generally including the grounds, parking areas and recreational facilities. See Kansas Statutes 58-4602
• Common expenses: means and includes:

  (1) All sums lawfully assessed against the apartment owners by the association of apartment owners;

  (2) expenses of administration, maintenance, repair or replacement of the common areas and facilities;

  (3) expenses agreed upon as common expenses by the association of apartment owners; and

  (4) expenses declared common expenses by provisions of this act, or by the declaration or the bylaws. See Kansas Statutes 58-3102

• Common expenses: means :

  (1) All sums lawfully assessed against the townhouse unit owners by the association pursuant to the declaration;

  (2) expenses of administration, maintenance, repair or replacement of the common areas and facilities incurred by the association pursuant to the declaration;

  (3) expenses agreed upon as common expenses by the association at special or regular meetings held pursuant to the declaration; and

  (4) expenses declared common expenses by provisions of this act or by the declaration or the bylaws of the association. See Kansas Statutes 58-3702

• Common interest community: means real estate described in a declaration with respect to which a person, by virtue of the person's ownership of a unit, is obligated to pay for a share of real estate taxes, insurance premiums, maintenance, or improvement of, or services or other expenses related to, common elements, other units, or other real estate described in that declaration. See Kansas Statutes 58-4602
• Common law: The legal system that originated in England and is now in use in the United States. It is based on judicial decisions rather than legislative action.
• Common profits: means the balance of all income, rents, profits and revenues from the common areas and facilities remaining after the deduction of the common expenses. See Kansas Statutes 58-3102
• comparative market analysis: means an analysis, opinion or conclusion prepared by an individual licensed as a real estate broker or salesperson pursuant to Kan. See Kansas Statutes 58-4102
• Compensation: means all amounts to be paid to a broker for services provided under a written agreement including, but not limited to, the broker's commission and any brokerage, management, consulting or other fees. See Kansas Statutes 58-30a02
• Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
• Condominium: means "property" as hereinafter defined. See Kansas Statutes 58-3102
• condominium unit: means a part of the property intended for any type of independent use whether residence, office, the operation of any industry or business or other use, including one or more rooms or enclosed spaces located on one or more floors (or part or parts thereof) in a building, and with a direct exit to a public street or highway or to a common area leading to such street or highway. See Kansas Statutes 58-3102
• Confidential information: means information made confidential by statute, rule, regulation or instructions from the client or personal information about the client which might place the other party at an advantage over the client unless the information is made public or becomes public by the words or conduct of the client to whom the information pertains or from a source other than the licensee. See Kansas Statutes 58-30,102
• Conservatee: means a person who has a conservator. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
• Conservation easement: means a nonpossessory interest of a holder in real property imposing limitations or affirmative obligations the purposes of which include retaining or protecting natural, scenic or open-space values of real property, assuring its availability for agricultural, forest, recreational or open-space use, protecting natural resources, maintaining or enhancing air or water quality, or preserving the historical, architectural, archaeological or cultural aspects of real property. See Kansas Statutes 58-3810
• 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
• Continuance: Putting off of a hearing ot trial until a later time.
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Controlling person: means :

  (1) An owner, officer, manager, or director of a corporation, partnership, firm, association, limited liability company, or other business entity seeking to offer appraisal management services in this state;

  (2) an individual employed, appointed, or authorized by an AMC that has the authority to enter into a contractual relationship with other persons for the performance of appraisal management services and has the authority to enter into agreements with appraisers for the performance of appraisals; or

  (3) an individual who possesses, directly or indirectly, the power to direct or cause the direction of the management or policies of an AMC. See Kansas Statutes 58-4703

• Convertible land: shall mean a building site for one or more proposed additional condominium units within the submitted land which may be created in accordance with the declaration and this act. See Kansas Statutes 58-3102
• 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.
• correspondence: shall include email or other electronic communications if the recipient has agreed in writing to receive electronic communications concerning the property. See Kansas Statutes 58-3934
• Counterclaim: A claim that a defendant makes against a plaintiff.
• Credential: means a certificate, license or temporary permit issued by the board pursuant to the provisions of the state certified and licensed real estate appraisals act authorizing an individual to act as a temporary permitted appraiser, provisional appraiser, state licensed appraiser, certified residential appraiser or certified general appraiser in the state of Kansas. See Kansas Statutes 58-4703
• Customer: means a seller, landlord, buyer or tenant in a real estate transaction in which a broker is involved but who has not entered into an agency with the broker. See Kansas Statutes 58-30,102
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Decedent: A deceased person.
• Declarant: means a person or group of persons acting in concert that:

  (1) As part of a common promotional plan, offers to dispose of the interest of the person or group of persons in a unit not previously disposed of; or

  (2) reserves or succeeds to any declarant right. See Kansas Statutes 58-4602

• Declaration: means the instrument by which the property is submitted to the provisions of this act as hereinafter provided, and such declaration as from time to time may be lawfully amended. See Kansas Statutes 58-3102
• Declaration: means covenants and restrictions which run with the land and create certain land use restrictions, maintenance assessments which become liens against the real estate and easements in favor of all townhouse unit owners and the association. See Kansas Statutes 58-3702
• Declaration: means the instrument, however denominated, that creates a common interest community, including any amendments to that instrument. See Kansas Statutes 58-4602
• Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
• Deed: is a pplied to an instrument conveying lands but does not imply a sealed instrument. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
• Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
• Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
• Designated agent: means a licensee affiliated with a broker who has been designated by the broker, or the broker's duly authorized representative, to act as the agent of a broker's buyer or seller client to the exclusion of all other affiliated licensees. See Kansas Statutes 58-30,102
• Devise: To gift property by will.
• Director: means the director of the division of housing in the Kansas development finance authority. See Kansas Statutes 58-1401
• Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
• Document: means information that is:

  (1) Inscribed on a tangible medium or that is stored in an electronic or other medium and is retrievable in perceivable form; and

  (2) eligible to be recorded in the land records maintained by the register of deeds. See Kansas Statutes 58-4402

• Domicile: means the state of incorporation of a corporation and the state of the principal place of business of a holder other than a corporation. See Kansas Statutes 58-3934
• Donor: The person who makes a gift.
• Dwelling: means any single family residence and each individual living unit in a duplex or triplex residential building which is constructed with public financial assistance. See Kansas Statutes 58-1401
• Dwelling unit: means a structure or the part of a structure that is used as a home, residence or sleeping place by one person who maintains a household or by two or more persons who maintain a common household; but such term shall not include real property used to accommodate a manufactured home or mobile home, unless such manufactured home or mobile home is rented or leased by the landlord. See Kansas Statutes 58-2543
• Electronic: means relating to technology having electrical, digital, magnetic, wireless, optical, electromagnetic or similar capabilities. See Kansas Statutes 58-4402
• Electronic signature: means an electronic sound, symbol or process attached to or logically associated with a document and executed or adopted by a person with the intent to sign the document. See Kansas Statutes 58-4402
• Embezzlement: In most states, embezzlement is defined as theft/larceny of assets (money or property) by a person in a position of trust or responsibility over those assets. Embezzlement typically occurs in the employment and corporate settings. ^{Source: OCC}
• 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}
• Escheat: Reversion of real or personal property to the state when 1) a person dies without leaving a will and has no heirs, or 2) when the property (such as a bank account) has been inactive for a certain period of time. ^{Source: OCC}
• Escrow: Money given to a third party to be held for payment until certain conditions are met.
• 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.
• Exchange: means a type of sale or purchase of real estate. See Kansas Statutes 58-3035
• Exclusive agency agreement: means a written agency agreement that sets forth the terms and conditions of the relationship between a broker and the broker's clients and does the following:

  (1) Grants the broker the exclusive right to represent the seller in the sale of the seller's property; and

  (2) provides the broker will be compensated if the broker or any other person or entity produces a purchaser in accordance with the terms specified in the agreement or if the property is sold during the term of the listing agreement, unless the property is sold solely through the efforts of the seller or to specifically exempted persons or entities. See Kansas Statutes 58-30,102

• Exclusive right to sell agreement: means a written agency agreement or written transaction brokerage agreement that sets forth the terms and conditions of the relationship between a broker and the broker's clients or customers and does the following:

  (1) Grants the broker the exclusive right to assist the seller in the sale of the seller's property; and

  (2) provides the broker will be compensated if the broker, seller or any other person or entity produces a purchaser in accordance with the terms specified in the agreement or if the property is sold during the term of the listing agreement to anyone other than specifically exempted persons or entities. See Kansas Statutes 58-30,102

• Executive session: A portion of the Senate's daily session in which it considers executive business.
• Executor: A male person named in a will to carry out the decedent
• Executor: includes an administrator where the subject matter applies to an administrator. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
• Expandable condominium: shall mean a condominium to which additional real property may be added in accordance with the provisions of the declaration and of this act. See Kansas Statutes 58-3102
• Facility: means all or any portion of buildings, structures, sites, complexes, equipment, rolling stock or other conveyances, roads, walks, passageways, parking lots or other real or personal property, including the site where the building, property, structure or equipment is located. See Kansas Statutes 58-1301b
• 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.
• Farming: means the cultivation of land for the production of agricultural crops, the raising of poultry, the production of eggs, the production of milk, the production of fruit or other horticultural crops, grazing or the production of livestock. See Kansas Statutes 58-3202
• federal act: means such act and amendments thereto. See Kansas Statutes 58-3501
• Federal law: means title XI of the financial institutions reform, recovery and enforcement act of 1989 (12 U. See Kansas Statutes 58-4102
• Federally related transaction: means any real estate-related financial transaction which: (1) A federal financial institutions regulatory agency or the resolution trust corporation engages in, contracts for or regulates; and (2) requires the services of an appraiser. See Kansas Statutes 58-4102
• Fee simple: Absolute title to property with no limitations or restrictions regarding the person who may inherit it.
• Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
• fiduciary: means a personal representative or a trustee. See Kansas Statutes 58-24a01
• Financial organization: means a savings and loan association, building and loan association, savings bank, industrial bank, bank, banking organization or credit union. See Kansas Statutes 58-3934
• 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.
• Foreclosure: A legal process in which property that is collateral or security for a loan may be sold to help repay the loan when the loan is in default. ^{Source: OCC}
• Forgery: The fraudulent signing or alteration of another's name to an instrument such as a deed, mortgage, or check. The intent of the forgery is to deceive or defraud. ^{Source: OCC}
• Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
• 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.
• Good faith: means honesty in fact in the conduct of the transaction concerned. See Kansas Statutes 58-2543
• Governmental entity: means a "public entity" as defined in Title II, but shall not include the national railroad passenger corporation, and any commuter authority, as defined in section 103(8) of the rail passenger service act (45 U. See Kansas Statutes 58-1301b
• Grantor: The person who establishes a trust and places property into it.
• Gross estate: The total fair market value of all property and property interests, real and personal, tangible and intangible, of which a decedent had beneficial ownership at the time of death before subtractions for deductions, debts, administrative expenses, and casualty losses suffered during estate administration.
• 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.
• Guardian: means an individual or a nonprofit corporation certified in accordance with Kan. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
• Holder: means :

  (1) A governmental body empowered to hold an interest in real property under the laws of this state or the United States; or

  (2) a charitable corporation, charitable association or charitable trust, the purposes or powers of which include retaining or protecting the natural, scenic, or open-space values of real property, assuring the availability of real property for agricultural, forest, recreational or open-space use, protecting natural resources, maintaining or enhancing air or water quality, or preserving the historical, architectural, archaeological or cultural aspects of real property. See Kansas Statutes 58-3810

• Holder: means a person obligated to hold for the account of, or deliver or pay to, the owner property that is subject to this act. See Kansas Statutes 58-3934
• home loan: means a real estate loan when the security is home property;

  (f) "home property" means real estate on which there is located, or will be located pursuant to a home loan, a home or a combination home;

  (g) "real estate loan" means a loan on the security of real estate evidenced by any form of instrument whereby a lien is created upon such real estate for the benefit of another person as security for the payment of an obligation to such person or whereby title to real estate is conveyed to another person as trustee for a third person, as security for the payment of an obligation to such third person;

  (h) "person" means an individual, corporation, business trust, partnership or association or any other legal entity;

  (i) "escrow account" means escrow, agency or similar account for the payment of taxes or insurance premiums with respect to a home loan. See Kansas Statutes 58-2337

• impracticable of fulfillment: includes , but is not limited to, the failure of any charitable trust, testamentary or inter vivos, including, without limitation, trusts described in section 509 of the federal internal revenue code of 1986, as in effect on December 31, 2000, and charitable remainder trusts described in section 664 of the federal internal revenue code of 1986, as in effect on December 31, 2000, to include, if required to do so by section 508(e) or section 4947(a) of the federal internal revenue code of 1986, as in effect on December 31, 2000, the provisions relating to governing instruments set forth in section 508(e) of the federal internal revenue code of 1986, as in effect on December 31, 2000. See Kansas Statutes 58a-413
• Incapacitated person: means an individual whose ability to receive and evaluate relevant information, or to effectively communicate decisions, or both, even with the use of assistive technologies or other supports, is impaired to the degree that the person lacks the capacity to manage the person's estate, or to meet essential needs for the person's physical health, safety or welfare, as defined in Kan. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
• Incompetent person: includes disabled persons and incapacitated persons as defined herein. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
• Indemnification: In general, a collateral contract or assurance under which one person agrees to secure another person against either anticipated financial losses or potential adverse legal consequences. ^{Source: FDIC}
• Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
• Insurance company: means an association, corporation, fraternal or mutual benefit organization, whether or not for profit, engaged in the business of providing life endowments, annuities or insurance, including accident, burial, casualty, credit life, contract performance, dental, disability, fidelity, fire, health, hospitalization, illness, life, malpractice, marine, mortgage, surety, wage protection and workers compensation insurance. See Kansas Statutes 58-3934
• Intangible property: Property that has no intrinsic value, but is merely the evidence of value such as stock certificates, bonds, and promissory notes.
• Inter vivos: Transfer of property from one living person to another living person.
• Interest: means : (1) Having any type of ownership in the real estate involved in the transaction; or (2) an officer, member, partner or shareholder of any entity that owns such real estate excluding an ownership interest of less than 5% in a publicly traded entity. See Kansas Statutes 58-3035
• Interest bearing property: means demand and savings accounts and certificates of deposit which at the time such accounts and certificates were reported to the administrator paid interest to the owner. See Kansas Statutes 58-3934
• 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}
• Intestate: Dying without leaving a will.
• Irrevocable trust: A trust arrangement that cannot be revoked, rescinded, or repealed by the grantor.
• 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.
• Land: means land, roads, water, watercourses, private ways and buildings, structures, and machinery or equipment when attached to the realty and includes agricultural and nonagricultural land. See Kansas Statutes 58-3202
• Landlord: means the owner, lessor or sublessor of the dwelling unit, or the building of which it is a part, and it also means a manager of the premises who fails to disclose as required by Kan. See Kansas Statutes 58-2543
• Last known address: means a description of the location of the apparent owner sufficient for the purpose of the delivery of mail. See Kansas Statutes 58-3934
• 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}
• Lease: means rent or lease for nonresidential use. See Kansas Statutes 58-3035
• Legatee: A beneficiary of a decedent
• Lender: means all state and national banks, trust companies, state and federally chartered savings and loan associations, federally chartered savings banks or state and federally chartered credit unions or any person making a home loan;

  (b) "selling lender" means a lender who sells, assigns or transfers the servicing of a loan to a purchasing lender or a servicing agent;

  (c) "purchasing lender" means a lender or servicing agent who buys the servicing of a loan from a selling lender;

  (d) "home" means a dwelling or dwellings for not more than four families. See Kansas Statutes 58-2337

• Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
• Licensee: means any person licensed under this act as a broker or salesperson. See Kansas Statutes 58-3035
• 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).
• Limited common areas and facilities: means and includes those common areas and facilities designated in the declaration as reserved for use of certain apartment or apartments to the exclusion of the other apartments. See Kansas Statutes 58-3102
• Limited common element: means a portion of the common elements allocated for the exclusive use of one or more but fewer than all of the units. See Kansas Statutes 58-4602
• Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants.
• Local unit of government: means a county, city, township or any other political subdivision of the state, or any agency, authority, institution or instrumentality thereof. See Kansas Statutes 58-3221
• Manufactured home: means a structure which:

  (1) Is transportable in one or more sections which, in the traveling mode, is 8 body feet or more in width or 40 body feet or more in length, or, when erected on site, is 320 or more square feet, and which is built on a permanent chassis and designed to be used as a dwelling, with or without permanent foundation, when connected to the required utilities, and includes the plumbing, heating, air conditioning and electrical systems contained therein; and

  (2) is subject to the federal manufactured home construction and safety standards established pursuant to 42 U. See Kansas Statutes 77-201

• Marital deduction: The deduction(s) that can be taken in the determination of gift and estate tax liabilities because of the existence of a marriage or marital relationship.
• Mineral: means oil, gas, uranium, sulphur, lignite, coal and any other substance that is ordinarily and naturally considered a mineral, regardless of the depth at which the oil, gas, uranium, sulphur, lignite, coal or other substance is found. See Kansas Statutes 58-3934
• Mineral proceeds: means amounts payable for the extraction, production or sale of minerals, or, upon abandonment of those payments, all payments that become payable thereafter. See Kansas Statutes 58-3934
• Ministerial acts: means those acts that a licensee may perform for a person that are informative in nature and do not rise to the level of active representation on behalf of a person. See Kansas Statutes 58-30,102
• Minor: means any person defined by Kan. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
• Mobile home: means a structure which:

  (1) Is transportable in one or more sections which, in the traveling mode, is 8 body feet or more in width and 36 body feet or more in length and is built on a permanent chassis and designed to be used as a dwelling, with or without a permanent foundation, when connected to the required utilities, and includes the plumbing, heating, air conditioning and electrical systems contained therein; and

  (2) is not subject to the federal manufactured home construction and safety standards established pursuant to 42 U. See Kansas Statutes 77-201

• Money order: includes an express money order and a personal money order, on which the remitter is the purchaser. See Kansas Statutes 58-3934
• Month: means a calendar month, unless otherwise expressed. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
• Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
• Mortgagee: The person to whom property is mortgaged and who has loaned the money.
• Mortgagor: The person who pledges property to a creditor as collateral for a loan and who receives the money.
• Muniments: means the records of title transactions in the chain of title of a person purporting to create the interest in land claimed by the person and upon which the person relies as a basis for the marketability of the person's title, commencing with the root of title and including all subsequent transactions. See Kansas Statutes 58-3402
• National Bank: A bank that is subject to the supervision of the Comptroller of the Currency. The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency is a bureau of the U.S. Treasury Department. A national bank can be recognized because it must have "national" or "national association" in its name. ^{Source: OCC}
• Nolo contendere: No contest-has the same effect as a plea of guilty, as far as the criminal sentence is concerned, but may not be considered as an admission of guilt for any other purpose.
• Nonagricultural land: means all land other than agricultural land. See Kansas Statutes 58-3202
• 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.
• Office: means any permanent location where one or more licensees regularly conduct real estate business as described in subsection (f) or a location that is held out as an office. See Kansas Statutes 58-3035
• Organization: includes a corporation, government, governmental subdivision or agency, business trust, estate, trust, partnership or association, two or more persons having a joint or common interest, and any other legal or commercial entity. See Kansas Statutes 58-2543
• Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
• Owner: means one or more persons, jointly or severally, in whom is vested: (1) All or part of the legal title to property; or (2) all or part of the beneficial ownership and a right to prevent use and enjoyment of the premises; and such term includes a mortgagee in possession. See Kansas Statutes 58-2543
• Owner: means the possessor of a fee interest, a tenant, lessee, occupant or person in control of the premises. See Kansas Statutes 58-3202
• Owner: means a person who has a legal or equitable interest in property subject to this act or the person's legal representative. See Kansas Statutes 58-3934
• Par value: shall mean a number of dollars or points assigned to each condominium unit by the declaration. See Kansas Statutes 58-3102
• 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: means an individual, partnership, corporation or other association of individuals. See Kansas Statutes 58-1301b
• person: means any individual, partnership, corporation, unincorporated association or governmental entity. See Kansas Statutes 58-2006
• Person: includes an individual or organization. See Kansas Statutes 58-2543
• Person: means individual, corporation, partnership, association, trustee or other legal entity. See Kansas Statutes 58-3102
• Person: means an individual, proprietorship, partnership, corporation, club, governmental entity or other legal entity. See Kansas Statutes 58-3221
• Person: means an individual, partnership, corporation, organization or other association. See Kansas Statutes 58-3402
• Person: means an individual, business association, financial organization, estate, trust, state or other government, governmental subdivision, agency or instrumentality or any other legal or commercial entity. See Kansas Statutes 58-3934
• Person: means an individual, corporation, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, limited liability company, association, joint venture, public corporation, government, or governmental subdivision, agency or instrumentality or any other legal or commercial entity. See Kansas Statutes 58-4402
• Person: means an individual, corporation, estate, trust, partnership, limited liability company, association, joint venture, public corporation, government or governmental subdivision, agency, or instrumentality, or any other legal or commercial entity. See Kansas Statutes 58-4602
• Person: means an individual, firm, partnership, association, corporation, or any other entity. See Kansas Statutes 58-4703
• Personal property: All property that is not real property.
• Personal property: includes money, goods, chattels, evidences of debt and things in action, and digital assets as defined in the revised uniform fiduciary access to digital assets act, Kan. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
• Plaintiff: The person who files the complaint in a civil lawsuit.
• Plea: In a criminal case, the defendant's statement pleading "guilty" or "not guilty" in answer to the charges, a declaration made in open court.
• 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.
• Power of attorney: A written instrument which authorizes one person to act as another's agent or attorney. The power of attorney may be for a definite, specific act, or it may be general in nature. The terms of the written power of attorney may specify when it will expire. If not, the power of attorney usually expires when the person granting it dies. ^{Source: OCC}
• 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.
• Premises: means a dwelling unit and the structure of which it is a part and facilities and appurtenances therein and grounds, areas and facilities held out for the use of tenants generally or the use of which is promised to the tenant. See Kansas Statutes 58-2543
• 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.
• Primary office: means a supervising broker's principal place of business for each company created or established by the broker. See Kansas Statutes 58-3035
• Probate: Proving a will
• Probation: A sentencing alternative to imprisonment in which the court releases convicted defendants under supervision as long as certain conditions are observed.
• Property: means and includes the land, the building, all improvements and structures thereon, all owned in fee simple absolute and all easements, rights and appurtenances belonging thereto, and all articles of personal property intended for use in connection therewith, which have been or are intended to be submitted to the provisions of this act. See Kansas Statutes 58-3102
• Property: means tangible property or a fixed and certain interest in intangible property that is held, issued or owed in the course of a holder's business, or by a state or other government, governmental subdivision, agency or instrumentality and all income or increments therefrom. See Kansas Statutes 58-3934
• 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.
• Proxy voting: The practice of allowing a legislator to cast a vote in committee for an absent legislator.
• Public financial assistance: means :

  (1) A building contract or similar contractual agreement with any state agency;

  (2) any real estate received by the owner through a donation by the state;

  (3) state tax credits;

  (4) grant assistance from state funds;

  (5) state loan guarantees; or

  (6) federal funds administered by the state or a state agency. See Kansas Statutes 58-1401

• Qualified third party: means a federal, state or local governmental agency or any person whom the broker, the affiliated licensee or a party to the real estate transaction reasonably believes has the expertise necessary to meet the industry standards of practice for the type of inspection or investigation that has been conducted by the third party in order to prepare a written report. See Kansas Statutes 58-30,102
• Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
• range: means an area designed and operated for the use of archery, rifles, shotguns, pistols, semiautomatic firearms, skeet, trap, black powder or any other similar sport shooting. See Kansas Statutes 58-3221
• Real estate: means any interest or estate in land, including any leasehold or condominium, whether corporeal, incorporeal, freehold or nonfreehold and whether the real estate is situated in this state or elsewhere, but does not include oil and gas leases, royalties and other mineral interests, and rights of way and easements acquired for the purpose of constructing roadways, pipelines, conduits, wires and facilities related to these types of improvement projects for private and public utilities, municipalities, federal and state governments, or any political subdivision. See Kansas Statutes 58-3035
• Real estate: means an identified parcel or tract of land, including improvements, if any. See Kansas Statutes 58-4102
• real estate appraisal: means an analysis, opinion or conclusion prepared by a real estate appraiser relating to the nature, quality, value or utility of specified interests in, or aspects of, identified real estate. See Kansas Statutes 58-4102
• Real estate-related financial transaction: means any transaction involving: (1) The sale, lease, purchase, investment in or exchange of real property, including interests in property or the financing thereof; (2) the refinancing of real property or interests in real property; (3) the use of real property or interests in property as security for a loan or investment, including mortgage-backed securities; or (4) a federally related transaction. See Kansas Statutes 58-4102
• Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
• Real property: means one or more defined interests, benefits and rights inherent in the ownership of real estate. See Kansas Statutes 58-4102
• real property: include lands, tenements and hereditaments, and all rights to them and interest in them, equitable as well as legal. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
• Record: means information that is inscribed on a tangible medium or that is stored in an electronic or other medium and is retrievable in a perceivable form. See Kansas Statutes 58-3934
• Recording: when applied to the official public records of any office or court, includes filing. See Kansas Statutes 58-3402
• Recording officer: means the register of deeds of the county in which the property is located. See Kansas Statutes 58-3102
• Records: includes probate and other official public records, as well as records in the office of the register of deeds. See Kansas Statutes 58-3402
• Recourse: An arrangement in which a bank retains, in form or in substance, any credit risk directly or indirectly associated with an asset it has sold (in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles) that exceeds a pro rata share of the bank's claim on the asset. If a bank has no claim on an asset it has sold, then the retention of any credit risk is recourse. ^{Source: FDIC}
• Recreational trail: means a trail created pursuant to subsection (d) of 16 U. See Kansas Statutes 58-3211
• 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.
• Remainderman: One entitled to the remainder of an estate after a particular reserved right or interest, such as a life tenancy, has expired.
• Rent: means all payments to be made to the landlord under the rental agreement, other than the security deposit. See Kansas Statutes 58-2543
• Rental agreement: means all agreements, written or oral, and valid rules and regulations adopted under Kan. See Kansas Statutes 58-2543
• Reporter: Makes a record of court proceedings and prepares a transcript, and also publishes the court's opinions or decisions (in the courts of appeals).
• 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
• Residential purposes: means use for dwelling or recreational purposes, or both. See Kansas Statutes 58-4602
• Responsible party: means any person, for-profit entity, not-for-profit entity or governmental entity that is responsible for developing, operating or maintaining a recreational trail. See Kansas Statutes 58-3211
• Restitution: The court-ordered payment of money by the defendant to the victim for damages caused by the criminal action.
• Revocable trust: A trust agreement that can be canceled, rescinded, revoked, or repealed by the grantor (person who establishes the trust).
• 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
• Roomer: means a person occupying a dwelling unit that lacks a major bathroom and kitchen facility, in a structure where one or more major facilities are used in common by occupants of the dwelling unit and other dwelling units. See Kansas Statutes 58-2543
• Root of title: means that conveyance or other title transaction in the chain of title of a person, purporting to create the interest claimed by the person, upon which the person relies as a basis for the marketability of the person's title and which was the most recent to be recorded as of a date 25 years prior to the time when marketability is being determined. See Kansas Statutes 58-3402
• Rule: means a policy, guideline, restriction, procedure, or regulation of an association, however denominated, which is not set forth in the declaration or bylaws and which governs the conduct of persons or the use or appearance of property. See Kansas Statutes 58-4602
• Salesperson: means an individual, other than an associate broker, who is employed by a broker or is associated with a broker as an independent contractor and participates in any activity described in subsection (f). See Kansas Statutes 58-3035
• 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
• Security deposit: means any sum of money specified in a rental agreement, however denominated, to be deposited with a landlord by a tenant as a condition precedent to the occupancy of a dwelling unit, which sum of money, or any part thereof, may be forfeited by the tenant under the terms of the rental agreement upon the occurrence or breach of conditions specified therein. See Kansas Statutes 58-2543
• Service of process: The service of writs or summonses to the appropriate party.
• Services: means any act or service for which compensation is paid and the performance of which requires a license under the real estate brokers' and salespersons' license act. See Kansas Statutes 58-30a02
• 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.
• Single family residence: means a structure maintained and used as a single dwelling unit. See Kansas Statutes 58-2543
• Size: shall mean the approximate square feet of floor space of each condominium unit computed by reference to the declaration and floor plans and rounded off to a whole number. See Kansas Statutes 58-3102
• Specialized services: means those appraisal services which do not fall within the definition of appraisal assignment. See Kansas Statutes 58-4102
• State: means any state of the United States, the District of Columbia, the commonwealth of Puerto Rico or any territory, insular possession or any other area subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. See Kansas Statutes 58-3934
• State: means a state of the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands or any territory or insular possession subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. See Kansas Statutes 58-4402
• 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.
• Statutory agent: means a seller's agent, a buyer's agent, a landlord's agent, a tenant's agent or a designated agent in a real estate transaction. See Kansas Statutes 58-30,102
• Submitted land: shall mean real property, and any incidents thereto or interests therein, lawfully submitted to the provisions of this act as hereinafter provided. See Kansas Statutes 58-3102
• Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
• Summons: Another word for subpoena used by the criminal justice system.
• Supervising broker: means an individual, other than a branch broker, who has a broker's license and who has been designated as the broker who is responsible for the supervision of the primary office of a broker and the activities of salespersons and associate brokers who are assigned to such office and all of whom are licensed pursuant to subsection (b) of Kan. See Kansas Statutes 58-3035
• Tenant: means a person entitled under a rental agreement to occupy a dwelling unit to the exclusion of others. See Kansas Statutes 58-2543
• Testator: A male person who leaves a will at death.
• Testify: Answer questions in court.
• Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
• Third-party right of enforcement: means a right provided in a conservation easement to enforce any of its terms granted to a governmental body, charitable corporation, charitable association or charitable trust, which, although eligible to be a holder, is not a holder. See Kansas Statutes 58-3810
• Title II: means 28 C. See Kansas Statutes 58-1301b
• Title III: means 28 C. See Kansas Statutes 58-1301b
• Title transaction: means any transaction affecting title to any interest in land, including title by will, descent, tax deed, mineral deed, lease or reservation; by trustee's, referee's, guardian's, conservator's, executor's, administrator's, master in chancery's or sheriff's deed; by decree of any court; or by warranty deed, quitclaim deed or mortgage. See Kansas Statutes 58-3402
• Townhouse owner: means the person or persons owning the real estate in fee simple on which a townhouse unit is located. See Kansas Statutes 58-3702
• Townhouse unit: means one single-family townhouse residential unit which may be joined together with at least one additional single-family townhouse residence by a common wall or walls, and/or roof, and/or foundation: Provided, however, That in any event, the term "townhouse unit" shall not mean an apartment as defined in Kan. See Kansas Statutes 58-3702
• Transaction broker: means a broker who assists one or more parties with a real estate transaction without being an agent or advocate for the interests of any party to such transaction. See Kansas Statutes 58-30,102
• 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.
• Trust account: A general term that covers all types of accounts in a trust department, such as estates, guardianships, and agencies. ^{Source: OCC}
• Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
• Trustor: The person who makes or creates a trust. Also known as the grantor or settlor.
• Truth in Lending Act: The Truth in Lending Act is a federal law that requires lenders to provide standardized information so that borrowers can compare loan terms. In general, lenders must provide information on ^{Source: OCC}
• Under legal disability: includes persons who are within the period of minority, or who are incapacitated, incompetent or imprisoned. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
• Undertaking: means a promise or security in any form where required by law. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
• Uniform Commercial Code: A set of statutes enacted by the various states to provide consistency among the states' commercial laws. It includes negotiable instruments, sales, stock transfers, trust and warehouse receipts, and bills of lading. ^{Source: OCC}
• Unit: means a physical portion of the common interest community designated for separate ownership or occupancy. See Kansas Statutes 58-4602
• Unit owner: means a person that owns a unit. See Kansas Statutes 58-4602
• USPAP: means the edition of the uniform standards of professional appraisal practice as specified in Kan. See Kansas Statutes 58-4703
• Utility: means a person who owns or operates for public use any plant, equipment, property, franchise or license for the transmission of communications or the production, storage, transmission, sale, delivery or furnishing of electricity, water, steam or gas. See Kansas Statutes 58-3934
• Venue: The geographical location in which a case is tried.
• Voice vote: A vote in which the Presiding Officer states the question, then asks those in favor and against to say "Yea" or "Nay," respectively, and announces the result according to his or her judgment. The names or numbers of legisators voting on each side are not recorded.
• Ward: means a person who has a guardian. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
• Writ: A formal written command, issued from the court, requiring the performance of a specific act.
• Written transaction brokerage agreement: means a written agreement setting forth the terms and conditions of the relationship between a broker acting as a transaction broker and the broker's customers. See Kansas Statutes 58-30,102