Terms Used In Virginia Code > Title 22.1 > Chapter 26 - Virginia Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Education Advisory Board

• Appraisal: A determination of property value.
• Career and technical education: means the training or retraining under public supervision and control that is (i) given in school classes, including field or laboratory work incidental to such training or retraining, exclusive of those career and technical education programs provided and administered by or through the public school system and (ii) conducted as part of a program designed to fit individuals for gainful employment as semiskilled or skilled workers or technicians in recognized occupations. See Virginia Code 23.1-2900
• Case law: The law as laid down in cases that have been decided in the decisions of the courts.
• Chancellor: means the Chancellor of the Virginia Community College System. See Virginia Code 23.1-2900
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
• Elementary: includes kindergarten. See Virginia Code 22.1-1
• Governing board: includes the State Board and the board of visitors of each baccalaureate public institution of higher education. See Virginia Code 23.1-100
• Grantor: The person who establishes a trust and places property into it.
• Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
• Mortgagor: The person who pledges property to a creditor as collateral for a loan and who receives the money.
• Nonlegislative citizen member: means any natural person who is not a member of the General Assembly of Virginia. See Virginia Code 1-225
• Person: means any individual, corporation, partnership, association, cooperative, limited liability company, trust, joint venture, government, political subdivision, or other legal or commercial entity. See Virginia Code 6.2-100
• Public institution of higher education: includes the System as a whole and each associate-degree-granting and baccalaureate public institution of higher education in the Commonwealth. See Virginia Code 23.1-100
• 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.
• State Board: means the State Board for Community Colleges. See Virginia Code 23.1-100
• Superintendent: means the Superintendent of Public Instruction. See Virginia Code 22.1-1
• System: means the Virginia Community College System. See Virginia Code 23.1-100