Terms Used In South Carolina Code > Title 39 > Chapter 65 - Payment of Post-Termination Claims to Sales Representatives

• Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
• bank: as used in this title must be construed to include all institutions doing any kind of banking business whose deposits are eligible for insurance by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, excluding a savings bank, and "building and loan association" as used in this title must be construed to include a mutual or stock savings association, savings and loan association, or savings bank and all other institutions doing any kind of building and loan business whose deposits are eligible for insurance by the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation. See South Carolina Code 34-1-10
• Commissions: means compensation accruing to a sales representative for payment by a principal, the rate of which is expressed as a percentage of the amount of orders or sales or as a specified amount of each order or sale. See South Carolina Code 39-65-10
• 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.
• 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.
• 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, corporation, partnership, association, estate, or trust. See South Carolina Code 39-65-10
• Principal: means a person who:
  
  (a) manufactures, produces, imports, or distributes a tangible product for wholesale;
  
  (b) contracts with a sales representative to solicit orders for the product; and
  
  (c) compensates the sales representative, in whole or in part, by commission. See South Carolina Code 39-65-10
• Sales representative: means a person who:
  
  (a) contracts with a principal to solicit wholesale orders;
  
  (b) is compensated, in whole or in part, by commission;
  
  (c) does not place orders or purchase for his own account or for resale; and
  
  (d) does not sell or take orders for the sale of products to the ultimate consumer. See South Carolina Code 39-65-10