Terms Used In South Carolina Code > Title 59 > Chapter 53 - Technical and Vocational Education and Training

• Advice and consent: Under the Constitution, presidential nominations for executive and judicial posts take effect only when confirmed by the Senate, and international treaties become effective only when the Senate approves them by a two-thirds vote.
• 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.
• Authority: means a technical college Enterprise Campus Authority. See South Carolina Code 59-53-2400
• Bequest: Property gifted by will.
• Board: means the governing body of an authority. See South Carolina Code 59-53-2400
• Board: means the State Board for Technical and Comprehensive Education. See South Carolina Code 59-53-2010
• Board: shall mean the State Board for Technical and Comprehensive Education. See South Carolina Code 59-53-151
• Bond reserve fund: shall mean each special fund to be established which shall be in the custody of the State Treasurer and which is primarily established for the purpose of providing a reserve with which to meet the payment of the principal of and interest on bonds issued for any college in the event that payments otherwise required for the debt service fund shall be insufficient to meet the payment of such principal and interest as and when they become due and payable. See South Carolina Code 59-53-151
• Bonds: shall mean the special obligation bonds of the particular technical education college or center for whom bonds are issued. See South Carolina Code 59-53-151
• Clerk of court: An officer appointed by the court to work with the chief judge in overseeing the court's administration, especially to assist in managing the flow of cases through the court and to maintain court records.
• College: shall mean each of the technical education colleges or centers. See South Carolina Code 59-53-151
• Commission: means an area commission as defined by § 59-53-52. See South Carolina Code 59-53-2400
• Continuance: Putting off of a hearing ot trial until a later time.
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
• Coordinator: means the administrator of the program. See South Carolina Code 59-53-2010
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Debt service fund: shall mean each fund to be established for the payment of the principal of and interest on the bonds issued for any college. See South Carolina Code 59-53-151
• Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
• Department: means the Department of Natural Resources. See South Carolina Code 48-9-15
• Devise: To gift property by will.
• Dismissal: The dropping of a case by the judge without further consideration or hearing. ^Source:
• Donor: The person who makes a gift.
• Enterprise campus: means the real and personal property subject to the management and control of an authority. See South Carolina Code 59-53-2400
• 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}
• Ex officio: Literally, by virtue of one's office.
• Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
• 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.
• Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
• 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.
• 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.
• Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
• 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.
• Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
• 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.
• Personal property: All property that is not real property.
• Plant improvements: shall mean the construction of and improvements to the buildings and equipment constituting facilities for any college. See South Carolina Code 59-53-151
• Precedent: A court decision in an earlier case with facts and law similar to a dispute currently before a court. Precedent will ordinarily govern the decision of a later similar case, unless a party can show that it was wrongly decided or that it differed in some significant way.
• Program: means a statewide motorcycle safety instruction program. See South Carolina Code 59-53-2010
• Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
• Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
• 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.
• Special student fee: shall mean the fee authorized to be established by the board at any college to provide funds for the repayment of bonds issued for such college. See South Carolina Code 59-53-151
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• 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.
• Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.