Terms Used In Maine Revised Statutes > Title 15 > Part 3 > Chapter 203 - Juries

• Adult: means a person who has attained the age of 18 years. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 1 Sec. 72
• Career ladder: means a clear sequence of education course work or training that is aligned with an identified series of positions, work experiences or educational benchmarks or training credentials that offer occupational and financial advancement within a specified career field or related fields over time. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 26 Sec. 3302
• Collaborative: means the Industry Partnership Assistance Collaborative established in section 3301. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 26 Sec. 3302
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
• Customized employment: means employment acquired as a result of implementation of a flexible blend of strategies, services and supports designed to increase employment options for job seekers with complex needs through voluntary negotiation of the employment relationship with the employer. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 26 Sec. 3402
• Disability: means a physical or mental disability as defined in Title 5, section 4553?A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 26 Sec. 3402
• Educational programs: means the State's elementary and secondary schools, career and technical education centers, adult education programs, the Maine Community College System, the Maine Maritime Academy and the University of Maine System and other training providers that have been approved to provide training by the Department of Labor under the federal Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act, Public Law 113-128. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 26 Sec. 3302
• 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.
• First and preferred service or support option: means the first employment service option that is offered by a state agency, prior to the offer of other supports or services, including day services. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 26 Sec. 3402
• 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}
• Grand jury: agreement providing that a lender will delay exercising its rights (in the case of a mortgage,
• High-priority occupations: means those occupations identified on a list published annually by the Center for Workforce Research and Information pursuant to section 3303, subsection 5. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 26 Sec. 3302
• Indictment: The formal charge issued by a grand jury stating that there is enough evidence that the defendant committed the crime to justify having a trial; it is used primarily for felonies.
• Industry cluster: means a group of employers closely linked by a common product or services, workforce needs, similar technologies, supply chains or other industry sector factors. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 26 Sec. 3302
• Industry partnership: means a workforce collaboration that brings together multiple employers and employees, or employee representatives when appropriate, in the same industry cluster to address common workforce needs. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 26 Sec. 3302
• Integrated community-based employment: means employment in the competitive labor market that is performed on a full-time or part-time basis in the general community or through self-employment and for which a person with a disability is compensated at or above the minimum wage but not less than the prevailing wage and level of benefits paid by the employer for the same or similar work performed by persons without disabilities. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 26 Sec. 3402
• 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.
• Juror: A person who is on the jury.
• 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}
• Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
• Oath: A promise to tell the truth.
• Oath: includes an affirmation, when affirmation is allowed. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 1 Sec. 72
• 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 a natural person, corporation, partnership or state agency. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 23 Sec. 7152
• Public law: A public bill or joint resolution that has passed both chambers and been enacted into law. Public laws have general applicability nationwide.
• Railroad: includes every commercial, interurban and other railway and each and every branch and extension thereof by whatsoever power operated, together with all tracks, bridges, trestles, rights-of-way, subways, tunnels, stations, depots, union depots, ferries, yards, grounds, terminals, terminal facilities, structures and equipment and all other real estate, fixtures and personal property of every kind used in connection therewith, owned, controlled, operated or managed for public use in the transportation of persons or property. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 23 Sec. 5001
• Railroad line: means the right-of-way, track, track appurtenances, ties, bridges, station houses, sidings, terminals and other appurtenant structures of a railroad. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 23 Sec. 7152
• Soft skills: means those basic skills necessary to obtain and maintain employment, such as interviewing and communications skills. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 26 Sec. 3302
• State agency: means the Department of Education, the Department of Health and Human Services or the Department of Labor. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 26 Sec. 3402
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• Targeted industry cluster: means an industry cluster identified by the collaborative pursuant to section 3303, subsection 2 as having statewide economic impact, immediate or long-term workforce development needs and emerging or competitive career opportunities. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 26 Sec. 3302
• 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.
• United States: includes territories and the District of Columbia. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 1 Sec. 72
• Venue: The geographical location in which a case is tried.
• Verdict: The decision of a petit jury or a judge.
• Voir dire: The process by which judges and lawyers select a petit jury from among those eligible to serve, by questioning them to determine knowledge of the facts of the case and a willingness to decide the case only on the evidence presented in court. "Voir dire" is a phrase meaning "to speak the truth."
• Year: means a calendar year, unless otherwise expressed. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 1 Sec. 72