Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes > Title 34 > Chapter 43 - Cane River Waterway District

• 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.
• Aggregating period: means :

              (a) For a political committee, except a political committee which supports only one candidate, the period from January first of the calendar year through December thirty-first of the same calendar year. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 18:1483

• Assistant secretary: means the assistant secretary of the office of conservation of the Department of Energy and Natural Resources. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 30:503
• Assistant secretary: means the assistant secretary of the office of conservation of the Department of Energy and Natural Resources. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 30:702
• Assistant secretary: means the assistant secretary of the office of conservation of the Department of Energy and Natural Resources. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 30:731
• 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.
• Closing date: means the date through which the report is complete. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 18:1483
• Commissioner: means the commissioner of conservation of the state of Louisiana. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 30:503
• Compressed natural gas: means natural gas designated for vehicular use that is under pressures exceeding twenty-four hundred pounds per square inch. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 30:731
• Compression and conversion equipment: means all equipment used in the compression, storage, transmission, and decompression of natural gas for the purpose of powering motor vehicles. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 30:731
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
• Electronic funds transfer: The transfer of money between accounts by consumer electronic systems-such as automated teller machines (ATMs) and electronic payment of bills-rather than by check or cash. (Wire transfers, checks, drafts, and paper instruments do not fall into this category.) ^{Source: OCC}
• Ex officio: Literally, by virtue of one's office.
• Fair market value: The price at which an asset would change hands in a transaction between a willing, informed buyer and a willing, informed seller.
• Fee simple: Absolute title to property with no limitations or restrictions regarding the person who may inherit it.
• Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
• Gas: means any gas derived from or composed of hydrocarbons, including synthetic gas which is produced from coal, lignite, or petroleum coke and the heat content of which synthetic gas does not exceed 800 BTUs per standard cubic foot. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 30:503
• Grand jury: agreement providing that a lender will delay exercising its rights (in the case of a mortgage,
• Judgement: The official decision of a court finally determining the respective rights and claims of the parties to a suit.
• Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
• Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
• Person: means any natural person, corporation, political subdivision, association, partnership, limited liability company, receiver, tutor, curator, executor, administrator, fiduciary, or representative of any kind. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 30:503
• Person: means any individual, firm, joint venture, partnership, corporation, association, any political subdivision of this state, municipality, cooperative association, or joint stock association, and includes any trustee, receiver, assignee or personal representative thereof. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 30:702
• person: includes a body of persons, whether incorporated or not. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 1:10
• Personal property: All property that is not real property.
• Pipeline facility: means and shall include, without limitation, new and existing pipe, right of way, and any equipment, facility, or building used or intended for use in the transportation of hazardous liquids; but, rights of way as used in this Chapter does not authorize the assistant secretary to prescribe the location or the routing of any pipeline facility. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 30:702
• 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.
• Transportation of hazardous liquids: means the movement of hazardous liquids by pipeline, or their storage incidental to such movement, in or affecting intrastate commerce; however, it shall not include any such movement through gathering lines in rural locations, onshore production, refining, or manufacturing facilities, or storage or in-plant piping systems associated with any of such facilities. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 30:702
• Trial: A hearing that takes place when the defendant pleads "not guilty" and witnesses are required to come to court to give evidence.