Terms Used In Idaho Code > Title 15 > Chapter 14 > Part 1 - Revised Uniform Fiduciary Access to Digital Assets Act

• Account: means an arrangement under a terms of service agreement in which a custodian carries, maintains, processes, receives or stores a digital asset of the user or provides goods or services to the user. See Idaho Code 15-14-102
• Affidavit: A written statement of facts confirmed by the oath of the party making it, before a notary or officer having authority to administer oaths.
• Agent: means an attorney in fact granted authority under a durable or nondurable power of attorney. See Idaho Code 15-14-102
• Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
• Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
• Carries: means engages in the transmission of an electronic communication. See Idaho Code 15-14-102
• Catalog of electronic communications: means information that identifies each person with which a user has had an electronic communication, the time and date of the communication and the electronic address of the person. See Idaho Code 15-14-102
• Codicil: An addition, change, or supplement to a will executed with the same formalities required for the will itself.
• Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
• Conservator: means a person appointed by a court to manage the estate of a living individual. See Idaho Code 15-14-102
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
• Court: means the court in this state having jurisdiction in matters relating to the content of this chapter. See Idaho Code 15-14-102
• Custodian: means a person that carries, maintains, processes, receives or stores a digital asset of a user. See Idaho Code 15-14-102
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Decedent: A deceased person.
• Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
• Designated recipient: means a person chosen by a user using an online tool to administer digital assets of the user. See Idaho Code 15-14-102
• Digital asset: means an electronic record in which an individual has a right or interest. See Idaho Code 15-14-102
• Electronic: means relating to technology having electrical, digital, magnetic, wireless, optical, electromagnetic or similar capabilities. See Idaho Code 15-14-102
• Electronic communication: has the meaning set forth in 18 U. See Idaho Code 15-14-102
• Electronic communication service: means a custodian that provides to a user the ability to send or receive an electronic communication. See Idaho Code 15-14-102
• Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
• Executor: A male person named in a will to carry out the decedent
• Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
• Fiduciary: means an original, additional or successor personal representative, conservator, agent or trustee. See Idaho Code 15-14-102
• Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
• Information: means data, text, images, videos, sounds, codes, computer programs, software, databases or the like. See Idaho Code 15-14-102
• 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.
• Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
• Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants.
• Online tool: means an electronic service provided by a custodian that allows the user, in an agreement distinct from the terms-of-service agreement between the custodian and user, to provide directions for disclosure or nondisclosure of digital assets to a third person. See Idaho Code 15-14-102
• Person: means an individual, estate, business or nonprofit entity, public corporation, government or governmental subdivision, agency or instrumentality, or other legal entity. See Idaho Code 15-14-102
• Personal property: includes money, goods, chattels, things in action, evidences of debt and general intangibles as defined in the uniform commercial code — secured transactions. See Idaho Code 73-114
• Personal property: All property that is not real property.
• Personal representative: means an executor, administrator, special administrator or person that performs substantially the same function under the law of this state other than this chapter. See Idaho Code 15-14-102
• Power of attorney: means a record that grants an agent authority to act in the place of a principal. See Idaho Code 15-14-102
• Power of attorney: A written instrument which authorizes one person to act as another's agent or attorney. The power of attorney may be for a definite, specific act, or it may be general in nature. The terms of the written power of attorney may specify when it will expire. If not, the power of attorney usually expires when the person granting it dies. ^{Source: OCC}
• Principal: means an individual who grants authority to an agent in a power of attorney. See Idaho Code 15-14-102
• Property: includes both real and personal property. See Idaho Code 73-114
• Protected person: means an individual for whom a conservator has been appointed. See Idaho Code 15-14-102
• Record: means information that is inscribed on a tangible medium or that is stored in an electronic or other medium and is retrievable in perceivable form. See Idaho Code 15-14-102
• Remote computing service: means a custodian that provides to a user computer processing services or the storage of digital assets by means of an electronic communications system, as defined in 18 U. See Idaho Code 15-14-102
• Service of process: The service of writs or summonses to the appropriate party.
• Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
• State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories; and the words "United States" may include the District of Columbia and territories. See Idaho Code 73-114
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• Summons: Another word for subpoena used by the criminal justice system.
• Terms of service agreement: means an agreement that controls the relationship between a user and a custodian. See Idaho Code 15-14-102
• Tort: A civil wrong or breach of a duty to another person, as outlined by law. A very common tort is negligent operation of a motor vehicle that results in property damage and personal injury in an automobile accident.
• Trial: A hearing that takes place when the defendant pleads "not guilty" and witnesses are required to come to court to give evidence.
• Trustee: means a fiduciary with legal title to property under an agreement or declaration that creates a beneficial interest in another. See Idaho Code 15-14-102
• Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
• User: means a person that has an account with a custodian. See Idaho Code 15-14-102
• Verdict: The decision of a petit jury or a judge.
• Will: includes a codicil, testamentary instrument that only appoints an executor and instrument that revokes or revises a testamentary instrument. See Idaho Code 15-14-102