Terms Used In Maryland Code > CORRECTIONAL SERVICES > Title 9 - State and Local Correctional System - Inmates

• Affirmed: In the practice of the appellate courts, the decree or order is declared valid and will stand as rendered in the lower court.
• 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.
• Arraignment: A proceeding in which an individual who is accused of committing a crime is brought into court, told of the charges, and asked to plead guilty or not guilty.
• certified mail: includes "registered mail"; and
  
  (3) "registered mail" includes "certified mail". See
• Ex officio: Literally, by virtue of one's office.
• Grand jury: agreement providing that a lender will delay exercising its rights (in the case of a mortgage,
• Joint committee: Committees including membership from both houses of teh legislature. Joint committees are usually established with narrow jurisdictions and normally lack authority to report legislation.
• Lawsuit: A legal action started by a plaintiff against a defendant based on a complaint that the defendant failed to perform a legal duty, resulting in harm to the plaintiff.
• legal holiday: means :
  
  (1) January 1, for New Year's Day;
  
  (2) (i) January 15, for Dr. See
• Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
• Prosecute: To charge someone with a crime. A prosecutor tries a criminal case on behalf of the government.
• Public debt: Cumulative amounts borrowed by the Treasury Department or the Federal Financing Bank from the public or from another fund or account. The public debt does not include agency debt (amounts borrowed by other agencies of the Federal Government). The total public debt is subject to a statutory limit.
• Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
• this Code: means a code of the public general laws of the State that has been adopted and made evidence of the public general laws of the State under § 10-201 of the Courts Article. See