Terms Used In Connecticut General Statutes > Chapter 247 - Uniform Motor Vehicle Certificate of Title and Antitheft Act

• 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.
• another: may extend and be applied to communities, companies, corporations, public or private, limited liability companies, societies and associations. See Connecticut General Statutes 1-1
• 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.
• Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.
• Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
• Commissioner: means the Commissioner of Motor Vehicles. See Connecticut General Statutes 14-165
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
• Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Dealer: means a person engaged in the business of buying, selling or exchanging vehicles who is licensed under the provisions of chapter 246. See Connecticut General Statutes 14-165
• Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
• Electronic title file: means the file maintained by the commissioner in an electronic media format for the purpose of recording and storage of the evidence of a lienholder's security interest in a vehicle. See Connecticut General Statutes 14-165
• Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
• farm: includes farm buildings, and accessory buildings thereto, nurseries, orchards, ranges, greenhouses, hoophouses and other temporary structures or other structures used primarily for the raising and, as an incident to ordinary farming operations, the sale of agricultural or horticultural commodities. See Connecticut General Statutes 1-1
• Garnishment: Generally, garnishment is a court proceeding in which a creditor asks a court to order a third party who owes money to the debtor or otherwise holds assets belonging to the debtor to turn over to the creditor any of the debtor
• Identification number: means the vehicle identification number of a motor vehicle, as defined in section 14-1. See Connecticut General Statutes 14-165
• Implement of husbandry: means a vehicle registered as a farm vehicle or a vehicle designated and adapted exclusively for agricultural, horticultural or livestock-raising operations or for lifting or carrying an implement of husbandry. See Connecticut General Statutes 14-165
• Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). ^{Source: OCC}
• Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
• Lienholder: means a person holding a security interest in a vehicle. See Connecticut General Statutes 14-165
• Owner: means a person, other than a lienholder, having the property in or title to a vehicle. See Connecticut General Statutes 14-165
• Personal property: All property that is not real property.
• Security agreement: means a "security agreement" as defined in subdivision (74) of subsection (a) of section 42a-9-102. See Connecticut General Statutes 14-165
• Security interest: means a "security interest" as defined in subdivision (35) of subsection (b) of section 42a-1-201. See Connecticut General Statutes 14-165
• Special mobile equipment: means a vehicle not designed for the transportation of persons or property upon a highway and only incidentally operated or moved over a highway, including, but not limited to, ditch-digging apparatus, well-boring apparatus and road construction and maintenance machinery such as asphalt spreaders, bituminous mixers, bucket loaders, street sweepers, tractors other than truck tractors, ditchers, leveling graders, finishing machines, motor graders, road rollers, scarifiers, earth moving carry-alls and scrapers, power shovels and drag lines, and self-propelled cranes and earth moving equipment. See Connecticut General Statutes 14-165
• State: means a state, territory or possession of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico or a province of the Dominion of Canada. See Connecticut General Statutes 14-165
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• Vehicle: means a motor vehicle as defined by section 14-1. See Connecticut General Statutes 14-165
• Venue: The geographical location in which a case is tried.