2018 Delaware Code
Title 25 - Property
CHAPTER 1. DEEDS
Subchapter V Electronic Recording
§ 181. Definitions in this subchapter.
(a) "Document" means information that is:
(1) Inscribed on a tangible medium or that is stored in an electronic or other medium and is retrievable in perceivable form; and
(2) Eligible to be recorded in the land records maintained by the recorder.
(b) "Electronic" means relating to technology having electrical, digital, magnetic, wireless, optical, electromagnetic, or similar capabilities.
(c) "Electronic document" means a document that is received by the recorder in an electronic form.
(d) "Electronic recording commission" means the commission established by § 184 of this title.
(e) "Electronic signature" means an electronic sound, symbol, or process attached to or logically associated with a document and executed or adopted by a person with the intent to sign the document.
(f) "Paper document" means a document that is received by the recorder in a form that is not electronic.
(g) "Person" means an individual, corporation, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, limited liability company, association, joint venture, public corporation, government, or governmental subdivision, agency, or instrumentality, or any other legal or commercial entity.
(h) "Recorder" means the recorder of deeds for the county in which a document is received.
(i) "State" means a state of the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, or any territory or insular possession subject to the jurisdiction of the United States.
75 Del. Laws, c. 23, § 1.
