In this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:

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Terms Used In Arizona Laws 13-1901

  • Act: means a bodily movement. See Arizona Laws 13-105
  • Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
  • Person: means a human being and, as the context requires, an enterprise, a public or private corporation, an unincorporated association, a partnership, a firm, a society, a government, a governmental authority or an individual or entity capable of holding a legal or beneficial interest in property. See Arizona Laws 13-105
  • Physical injury: means the impairment of physical condition. See Arizona Laws 13-105
  • Property: means anything of value, tangible or intangible. See Arizona Laws 13-105
  • Property of another: means property of another as defined in section 13-1801. See Arizona Laws 13-1901

1. "Force" means any physical act directed against a person as a means of gaining control of property.

2. "In the course of committing" includes any of the defendant‘s acts beginning with the initiation and extending through the flight from a robbery.

3. "Property of another" means property of another as defined in section 13-1801.

4. "Threat" means a verbal or physical menace of imminent physical injury to a person.