Terms Used In South Carolina Code > Title 44 > Chapter 43 > Article 11 - Hospital Policy and Protocol for Organ and Tissue Donation

• Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
• Appraisal: A determination of property value.
• Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
• Bank: means the South Carolina Conservation Bank. See South Carolina Code 48-59-30
• Board: means the governing board of the bank. See South Carolina Code 48-59-30
• collection: means to facilitate the delivery of a covered television device or covered computer monitor device to a collection site included in the manufacturer's program, and to transport the covered television device or covered computer monitor device for recovery. See South Carolina Code 48-60-20
• Conservation easement: means an interest in real property as defined in Chapter 8 of Title 27, the South Carolina Conservation Easement Act of 1991. See South Carolina Code 48-59-30
• Consumer: means an occupant of a single-detached dwelling unit or a single unit of a multiple dwelling unit who has used a covered device primarily for personal or home business use. See South Carolina Code 48-60-20
• Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
• Donor: The person who makes a gift.
• Eligible trust fund recipient: means :
  
  (a) the following state agencies, which own and manage land for the land's natural resource, historical, and outdoor recreation values:
  
  (i) South Carolina Department of Natural Resources,
  
  (ii) South Carolina Forestry Commission, and
  
  (iii) South Carolina Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism. See South Carolina Code 48-59-30
• Fair market value: The price at which an asset would change hands in a transaction between a willing, informed buyer and a willing, informed seller.
• Fee simple: Absolute title to property with no limitations or restrictions regarding the person who may inherit it.
• Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
• 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}
• Hospital: means a hospital licensed, accredited, or approved under the laws of this State and includes a hospital operated by the United States or the State or its subdivisions, although not required to be licensed under state law. See South Carolina Code 44-43-910
• Indemnification: In general, a collateral contract or assurance under which one person agrees to secure another person against either anticipated financial losses or potential adverse legal consequences. ^{Source: FDIC}
• Interests in lands: means fee simple titles to lands or conservation easements. See South Carolina Code 48-59-30
• 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.
• Land: means real property, including highlands and wetlands of any description. See South Carolina Code 48-59-30
• Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
• Organ and Tissue Procurement Organization: means the organ procurement organization designated to perform organ recovery services in South Carolina by the United States Department of Health and Human Services which also has the capability to procure tissue. See South Carolina Code 44-43-910
• Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
• Trust fund: means the South Carolina Conservation Bank Trust Fund established pursuant to § 48-59-60. See South Carolina Code 48-59-30