Terms Used In Rhode Island General Laws > Chapter 6A-7 - Documents of Title

• Agricultural land: means land conforming to the definition of agricultural land set forth in § 42-82-2. See Rhode Island General Laws 2-23.2-2
• Agricultural liming materials: means a product whose calcium and magnesium compounds are capable of neutralizing soil acidity. See Rhode Island General Laws 2-21-3
• Agricultural operation: means any activity defined as an agricultural operation in § 2-23-4. See Rhode Island General Laws 2-23.2-2
• agricultural operations: includes any commercial enterprise that has as its primary purpose horticulture, viticulture, viniculture, floriculture, forestry, stabling of horses, dairy farming, or aquaculture, or the raising of livestock, including for the production of fiber, furbearing animals, poultry, or bees, and all such other operations, uses, and activities as the director, in consultation with the chief of division of agriculture, may determine to be agriculture, or an agricultural activity, use or operation. See Rhode Island General Laws 2-23-4
• 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.
• Bailee: means a person that by a warehouse receipt, bill of lading, or other document of title acknowledges possession of goods and contracts to deliver them. See Rhode Island General Laws 6A-7-102
• Brand: means the term, designation, trade mark, product name or other specific designation under which individual soil amendments are offered for sale. See Rhode Island General Laws 2-22-3
• Brand: means the term, designation, trademark, product name or other specific designation under which individual agricultural liming material is offered for sale. See Rhode Island General Laws 2-21-3
• Bulk: means in nonpackaged form. See Rhode Island General Laws 2-21-3
• Burnt lime: means a material made from limestone which consists essentially of calcium oxide or a combination of calcium oxide with magnesium oxide. See Rhode Island General Laws 2-21-3
• Carrier: means a person that issues a bill of lading. See Rhode Island General Laws 6A-7-102
• Compost: means a soil amending material resulting from the aerobic, thermophyllic, microbial processing of organic materials. See Rhode Island General Laws 2-22-3
• Composter: means a producer of compost registered with the director under this chapter. See Rhode Island General Laws 2-22-3
• Composting: means any aerobic, thermophyllic process which allows for the conversion of raw organic materials into a stable soil amendment. See Rhode Island General Laws 2-22-3
• Consignee: means a person named in a bill of lading to which or to whose order the bill promises delivery. See Rhode Island General Laws 6A-7-102
• Consignor: means a person named in a bill of lading as the person from which the goods have been received for shipment. See Rhode Island General Laws 6A-7-102
• 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.
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Delivery order: means a record that contains an order to deliver goods directed to a warehouse, carrier, or other person that in the ordinary course of business issues warehouse receipts or bills of lading. See Rhode Island General Laws 6A-7-102
• Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
• Development right: means a development right conforming to the definition of a development right as set forth in § 42-82-2. See Rhode Island General Laws 2-23.2-2
• Distribute: means to import, consign, manufacture, produce, compound, mix or blend soil amendments or offer for sale, sell, barter, or otherwise supply soil amendments in this state. See Rhode Island General Laws 2-22-3
• Distributor: means any person who imports, consigns, manufactures, produces, compounds, mixes, or blends soil amendments, or who offers for sale, sells, barters, or otherwise supplies soil amendments in this state. See Rhode Island General Laws 2-22-3
• 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.
• Fineness: means the percentage by weight of the material which will pass U. See Rhode Island General Laws 2-21-3
• Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
• Good faith: means honesty in fact and the observance of reasonable commercial standards of fair dealing. See Rhode Island General Laws 6A-7-102
• Goods: means all things that are treated as movable for the purposes of a contract for storage or transportation. See Rhode Island General Laws 6A-7-102
• in writing: include printing, engraving, lithographing, and photo-lithographing, and all other representations of words in letters of the usual form. See Rhode Island General Laws 43-3-16
• Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
• Issuer: means a bailee that issues a document of title or, in the case of an unaccepted delivery order, the person that orders the possessor of goods to deliver. See Rhode Island General Laws 6A-7-102
• 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.
• Label: means any written or printed matter on or attached to the package or on the delivery ticket which accompanies bulk shipments. See Rhode Island General Laws 2-21-3
• Label: means the display of all written, printed or graphic matter upon the immediate container or statement accompanying a soil amendment. See Rhode Island General Laws 2-22-3
• Labeling: means all written, printed or graphic matter, upon or accompanying any soil amendment, or advertisements, brochures, posters, or television or radio announcements used in promoting the sale of any soil amendments. See Rhode Island General Laws 2-22-3
• 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.
• Limestone: means a material consisting essentially of calcium carbonate or a combination of calcium carbonate with magnesium carbonate capable of neutralizing soil acidity. See Rhode Island General Laws 2-21-3
• 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.
• Official sample: means any sample of soil amendment taken by the director or his or her agent and designated as official by the director. See Rhode Island General Laws 2-22-3
• Other ingredients: means the nonsoil amending ingredients present in soil amendments. See Rhode Island General Laws 2-22-3
• 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.
• Percentage: means by weight. See Rhode Island General Laws 2-21-3
• Person: means individual, partnership, association, firm or corporation. See Rhode Island General Laws 2-22-3
• Person: means individual, partnership, association, firm or corporation. See Rhode Island General Laws 2-21-3
• person: may be construed to extend to and include co-partnerships and bodies corporate and politic. See Rhode Island General Laws 43-3-6
• Personal property: All property that is not real property.
• Record: means information that is inscribed on a tangible medium or that is stored in an electronic or other medium and is retrievable in perceivable form. See Rhode Island General Laws 6A-7-102
• Registrant: means the person who registers soil amendments under the provisions of this chapter. See Rhode Island General Laws 2-22-3
• 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.
• 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.
• Shipper: means a person that enters into a contract of transportation with a carrier. See Rhode Island General Laws 6A-7-102
• Soil amending ingredient: means a substance which improves the physical characteristics of the soil. See Rhode Island General Laws 2-22-3
• Soil amendment: means any substance which is intended to improve the physical characteristics of the soil, except commercial fertilizers, agricultural liming materials, unmanipulated animal manures, unmanipulated vegetable manures, unmanipulated natural substances (charcoal, sand, pumice, and clay, etc. See Rhode Island General Laws 2-22-3
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• Ton: means a net weight of two thousand (2,000) pounds avoirdupois. See Rhode Island General Laws 2-22-3
• town: may be construed to include city; the words "town council" include city council; the words "town clerk" include city clerk; the words "ward clerk" include clerk of election district; the words "town treasurer" include city treasurer; and the words "town sergeant" include city sergeant. See Rhode Island General Laws 43-3-9
• 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.
• 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}
• United States: include the several states and the territories of the United States. See Rhode Island General Laws 43-3-8
• Warehouse: means a person engaged in the business of storing goods for hire. See Rhode Island General Laws 6A-7-102
• Weight: means the weight of material as offered for sale. See Rhode Island General Laws 2-22-3
• Weight: means the weight of undried material as offered for sale. See Rhode Island General Laws 2-21-3