Terms Used In California Codes > Health and Safety Code > Division 3 > Chapter 8 - Pest Abatement Districts

• Bequest: Property gifted by will.
• Claim: includes a legal or equitable right, title, estate, lien, or interest in property or cloud upon title. See California Code of Civil Procedure 760.010
• District: as used in this chapter , means any pest abatement district formed pursuant to this chapter or pursuant to any law which it supersedes. See California Health and Safety Code 2802
• Lawsuit: A legal action started by a plaintiff against a defendant based on a complaint that the defendant failed to perform a legal duty, resulting in harm to the plaintiff.
• Person: includes a corporation as well as a natural person. See California Code of Civil Procedure 17
• Pest: as used in this chapter , includes any plant, animal, insect, fish, or other matter or material, not under human control, which is offensive to the senses or interferes with the comfortable enjoyment of life, or which is detrimental to the agricultural industry of the State, and is not protected under any other provision of law. See California Health and Safety Code 2800
• Property: includes real property, and to the extent applicable, personal property. See California Code of Civil Procedure 760.010
• public nuisance: includes , but is not limited to, both of the following:

  California Health and Safety Code 2800.5

• Summons: Another word for subpoena used by the criminal justice system.
• Will: includes codicil. See California Code of Civil Procedure 17