Terms Used In South Carolina Code > Title 15 > Chapter 9 - Summonses, Orders of Publication and Service of Papers Generally

• Appellate: About appeals; an appellate court has the power to review the judgement of another lower court or tribunal.
• Board: means the board of the Revenue and Fiscal Affairs Office. See South Carolina Code 23-47-10
• Call: means any information, written communication, video, data, or voice that is delivered to the PSAP initiating an emergency response. See South Carolina Code 23-47-10
• Chambers: A judge's office.
• Cigarette: means :
  
  (1) any roll for smoking, made wholly or in part of tobacco or another substance, irrespective of size or shape, either flavored or unflavored, adulterated or mixed with another ingredient. See South Carolina Code 23-51-20
• clerk: as used in this title , signifies the clerk of the court where the action is pending and, in the Supreme Court or the court of appeals, the clerk of the county mentioned in the title of the complaint or in another county to which the court may have changed the place of trial, unless otherwise specified. See South Carolina Code 15-1-60
• Committee: means the South Carolina 911 Advisory Committee. See South Carolina Code 23-47-10
• 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.
• Council: means the South Carolina Crimestoppers Council. See South Carolina Code 23-50-15
• Crimestoppers organization: means a private, nonprofit corporation that is organized under the laws of South Carolina that is operated on a local or statewide level, that accepts and expends donations for rewards to persons who report to the organization information about suspected criminal activity, that forwards the information to the appropriate law enforcement agency, is a member of the council, and that is qualified to receive reimbursed funds pursuant to § 23-50-30. See South Carolina Code 23-50-15
• Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
• Department: means the Department of Revenue. See South Carolina Code 23-47-10
• Donor: The person who makes a gift.
• 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}
• Exchange access facility: means the access from a particular telephone subscriber's premises to the telephone system of a service supplier. See South Carolina Code 23-47-10
• Executor: A male person named in a will to carry out the decedent
• Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
• 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}
• 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.
• Inter vivos: Transfer of property from one living person to another living person.
• 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}
• Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
• Local government: means any city, county, or political subdivision of the State. See South Carolina Code 23-47-10
• Manufacturer: means :
  
  (1) an entity which manufactures or produces cigarettes or causes cigarettes to be manufactured or produced with the intent to be sold in this State, including cigarettes intended to be sold in the United States through an importer;
  
  (2) the first purchaser that intends to resell in the United States cigarettes manufactured anywhere that the original manufacturer or maker does not intend to be sold in the United States; or
  
  (3) an entity that becomes a successor of an entity described in subitem (1) or (2). See South Carolina Code 23-51-20
• Mapping: means the development of a computerized geographical display system of roads and structures where emergency response may be required. See South Carolina Code 23-47-10
• Office: means the South Carolina Revenue and Fiscal Affairs Office. See South Carolina Code 23-47-10
• Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
• 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}
• Prepaid wireless consumer: means a person or entity that purchases prepaid wireless telecommunications service in a prepaid wireless retail transaction. See South Carolina Code 23-47-10
• Prepaid wireless provider: means a person or entity that provides prepaid wireless telecommunications service pursuant to a license issued by the Federal Communications Commission. See South Carolina Code 23-47-10
• Prepaid wireless retail transaction: means the purchase of prepaid wireless telecommunications service from a prepaid wireless seller for any purpose other than resale. See South Carolina Code 23-47-10
• Prepaid wireless seller: means a person or entity that sells prepaid wireless telecommunications service to another person or entity for any purpose other than resale. See South Carolina Code 23-47-10
• Privileged communication: means a statement by any person, in any manner whatsoever, to a crimestoppers organization or to the council for the purpose of reporting alleged criminal activity and a communication from a crimestoppers organization or the council relaying the information received to a law enforcement agency. See South Carolina Code 23-50-15
• Probable cause: A reasonable ground for belief that the offender violated a specific law.
• Probation: A sentencing alternative to imprisonment in which the court releases convicted defendants under supervision as long as certain conditions are observed.
• property: as used in this Title , includes both real and personal property. See South Carolina Code 15-1-50
• Protected identity: means the identity of any person reporting suspected criminal activity to a crimestoppers organization or to the council. See South Carolina Code 23-50-15
• Protected information: means any records, oral, written, or recorded statements, papers, documents, or any materials utilized by a crimestoppers organization or the council in reporting suspected criminal activity or in processing such information, whether such information is in the possession of a crimestoppers organization, the council, or a law enforcement agency receiving such information from a crimestoppers organization or the council. See South Carolina Code 23-50-15
• Quality control and quality assurance program: means the laboratory procedures implemented to ensure that operator bias, systematic and nonsystematic methodological errors, and equipment-related problems do not affect the results of the testing. See South Carolina Code 23-51-20
• Rate: means the recurring or nonrecurring rates billed by the service supplier, which represents the service supplier's recurring charges for exchange access facilities, exclusive of all taxes, fees, licenses, or similar charges. See South Carolina Code 23-47-10
• Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
• Reimbursed funds: means funds reimbursed pursuant to § 23-50-30. See South Carolina Code 23-50-15
• 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.
• Repeatability: means the range of values within which the repeat results of cigarette test trials from a single laboratory will fall ninety-five percent of the time. See South Carolina Code 23-51-20
• Retail dealer: means a person, other than a manufacturer or wholesale dealer, engaged in selling cigarettes or tobacco products. See South Carolina Code 23-51-20
• Sale: means a transfer of title or possession, or both, exchange or barter, conditional or otherwise, in any manner, by any means, or by any agreement. See South Carolina Code 23-51-20
• Sell: means to sell, or to offer or agree to do the same. See South Carolina Code 23-51-20
• Service of process: The service of writs or summonses to the appropriate party.
• Service supplier: means any person, company, or corporation, public or private, providing exchange telephone service, CMRS service, or VoIP service to end users. See South Carolina Code 23-47-10
• 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.
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• Strategic plan: means the defined strategy of South Carolina's 911 goals and objectives and the steps necessary to achieve those goals and objectives. See South Carolina Code 23-47-10
• subscriber: means a person or entity to whom exchange telephone service, either residential or commercial, is provided and in return for which the person or entity is billed on a monthly basis. See South Carolina Code 23-47-10
• Tort: A civil wrong or breach of a duty to another person, as outlined by law. A very common tort is negligent operation of a motor vehicle that results in property damage and personal injury in an automobile accident.
• Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
• Wholesale dealer: means a person other than a manufacturer who sells cigarettes or tobacco products to retail dealers or other persons for purposes of resale, and a person who owns, operates, or maintains one or more cigarette or tobacco product vending machines in, at, or upon premises owned or occupied by another person. See South Carolina Code 23-51-20