Terms Used In South Carolina Code > Title 44 > Chapter 43 > Article 7 - Distribution of Dead Bodies for Scientific Purposes

• Bank: means the South Carolina Conservation Bank. See South Carolina Code 48-59-30
• Common law: The legal system that originated in England and is now in use in the United States. It is based on judicial decisions rather than legislative action.
• Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
• Department: means the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control. See South Carolina Code 48-57-20
• Environmental audit: means a voluntary, internal evaluation or review of one or more facilities or an activity at one or more facilities regulated under federal, state, regional, or local environmental law, or of compliance programs, or management systems related to the facility or activity if designed to identify and prevent noncompliance and to improve compliance with these laws. See South Carolina Code 48-57-20
• Environmental laws: means all provisions of federal, state, regional, and local laws, regulations, and ordinances pertaining to environmental matters. See South Carolina Code 48-57-20
• Equitable: Pertaining to civil suits in "equity" rather than in "law." In English legal history, the courts of "law" could order the payment of damages and could afford no other remedy. See damages. A separate court of "equity" could order someone to do something or to cease to do something. See, e.g., injunction. In American jurisprudence, the federal courts have both legal and equitable power, but the distinction is still an important one. For example, a trial by jury is normally available in "law" cases but not in "equity" cases. ^{Source: U.S. Courts}
• Freedom of Information Act: A federal law that mandates that all the records created and kept by federal agencies in the executive branch of government must be open for public inspection and copying. The only exceptions are those records that fall into one of nine exempted categories listed in the statute. ^{Source: OCC}
• Land: means real property, including highlands and wetlands of any description. See South Carolina Code 48-59-30
• Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.