Terms Used In Arizona Laws > Title 13 > Chapter 38 > Article 4 - Close Pursuit

• Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.
• Common law: The legal system that originated in England and is now in use in the United States. It is based on judicial decisions rather than legislative action.
• Conduct: means an act or omission and its accompanying culpable mental state. See Arizona Laws 13-105
• Extradition: The formal process of delivering an accused or convicted person from authorities in one state to authorities in another state.
• Felony: means an offense for which a sentence to a term of imprisonment in the custody of the state department of corrections is authorized by any law of this state. See Arizona Laws 13-105
• Magistrate: means an officer having power to issue a warrant for the arrest of a person charged with a public offense and includes the chief justice and justices of the supreme court, judges of the superior court, judges of the court of appeals, justices of the peace and judges of a municipal court. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• 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
• State: includes the District of Columbia. See Arizona Laws 13-3831
• Unlawful: means contrary to law or, where the context so requires, not allowed by law. See Arizona Laws 13-105