Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes > Title 33 > Chapter 27 > Part III - Special Taxing Districts for Cooperative Economic Development Purposes

• Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
• Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
• Consumer: means any person who uses, purchases, or leases goods or services. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:1402
• Consumer transaction: means any transaction involving trade or commerce to a natural person, the subject of which transaction is primarily intended for personal, family, or household use. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:1402
• Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
• Deposition: An oral statement made before an officer authorized by law to administer oaths. Such statements are often taken to examine potential witnesses, to obtain discovery, or to be used later in trial.
• Enrolled bill: The final copy of a bill or joint resolution which has passed both chambers in identical form. It is printed on parchment paper, signed by appropriate officials, and submitted to the President/Governor for signature.
• Ex officio: Literally, by virtue of one's office.
• Executor: A male person named in a will to carry out the decedent
• Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
• Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
• Improper means: includes theft, bribery, misrepresentation, breach, or inducement of a breach of a duty to maintain secrecy, or espionage through electronic or other means. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:1431
• Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants.
• Misappropriation: means :

  (a)  acquisition of a trade secret of another by a person who knows or has reason to know that the trade secret was acquired by improper means; or

  (b)  disclosure or use of a trade secret of another without express or implied consent by a person who:

  (i)  used improper means to acquire knowledge of the trade secret; or

  (ii)  at the time of disclosure or use, knew or had reason to know that his knowledge of the trade secret was:

  (aa)  derived from or through a person who had utilized improper means to acquire it;

  (bb)  acquired under circumstances giving rise to a duty to maintain its secrecy or limit its use; or

  (cc)  derived from or through a person who owed a duty to the person seeking relief to maintain its secrecy or limit its use; or

  (iii)  before a material change of his position, knew or had reason to know that it was a trade secret and that knowledge of it had been acquired by accident or mistake. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:1431

• National Credit Union Administration: The federal regulatory agency that charters and supervises federal credit unions. (NCUA also administers the National Credit Union Share Insurance Fund, which insures the deposits of federal credit unions.) ^{Source: OCC}
• Parliamentarian: The Parliamentarian is an advisor on the interpretation of legislative rules and procedures.
• Person: means a natural person, corporation, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, association, joint venture, government, governmental subdivision or agency, or any other legal or commercial entity. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:1431
• person: includes a body of persons, whether incorporated or not. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 1:10
• Presiding officer: A majority-party Senator who presides over the Senate and is charged with maintaining order and decorum, recognizing Members to speak, and interpreting the Senate's rules, practices and precedents.
• Prosecute: To charge someone with a crime. A prosecutor tries a criminal case on behalf of the government.
• provider of Internet service: means a facilities-based provider or other entity that provides residential consumers with the ability to access the Internet in exchange for consideration such as through a paid subscription or through an agreement to view specific ads or content in exchange for Internet access, provided, however, this term does not include an entity that provides access to the Internet using spectrum regulated by the Federal Communications Commission pursuant to Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:1425
• Remainder: An interest in property that takes effect in the future at a specified time or after the occurrence of some event, such as the death of a life tenant.
• Restitution: The court-ordered payment of money by the defendant to the victim for damages caused by the criminal action.
• Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
• Trade secret: means information, including a formula, pattern, compilation, program, device, method, technique, or process, that:

  (a)  derives independent economic value, actual or potential, from not being generally known to and not being readily ascertainable by proper means by other persons who can obtain economic value from its disclosure or use, and

  (b)  is the subject of efforts that are reasonable under the circumstances to maintain its secrecy. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:1431

• Trial: A hearing that takes place when the defendant pleads "not guilty" and witnesses are required to come to court to give evidence.
• Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
• Venue: The geographical location in which a case is tried.