Terms Used In Louisiana Codes > Civil Code > BOOK III > Title VI > Chapter 4 - Marital Portion

• Answer: The formal written statement by a defendant responding to a civil complaint and setting forth the grounds for defense.
• 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.
• child: means any person under the age of twenty-one, including an emancipated minor, who commits a delinquent act before attaining seventeen years of age. See Louisiana Children's Code 804
• Legacy: A gift of property made by will.
• Summons: Another word for subpoena used by the criminal justice system.
• Testator: A male person who leaves a will at death.