Terms Used In Louisiana Codes > Code of Criminal Procedure > Title XXIX > Chapter 2 - Motion in Arrest of Judgment

• Bail: Security given for the release of a criminal defendant or witness from legal custody (usually in the form of money) to secure his/her appearance on the day and time appointed.
• Capital offense: A crime punishable by death.
• Grand jury: agreement providing that a lender will delay exercising its rights (in the case of a mortgage,
• Lease: means any oral or written lease, and includes a sublease;

  "Lessee" includes a sublessee, whether the person seeking to evict is a lessor or sublessor; and an assignee of a lessee;

  "Lessor" includes a sublessor, assignee, or transferee;

  "Occupant" includes a sharecropper; half hand; day laborer; former owner; and any person occupying immovable property by permission or accommodation of the owner, former owner, or another occupant, except a mineral lessee, owner of a mineral servitude, or a lessee of the owner;

  "Owner" includes a lessee; and

  "Premises" includes the land and all buildings and improvements thereon leased by a tenant, or possessed by an occupant. See Louisiana Code of Civil Procedure 4704

• Lessee: includes a sublessee, whether the person seeking to evict is a lessor or sublessor; and an assignee of a lessee;

  "Lessor" includes a sublessor, assignee, or transferee;

  "Occupant" includes a sharecropper; half hand; day laborer; former owner; and any person occupying immovable property by permission or accommodation of the owner, former owner, or another occupant, except a mineral lessee, owner of a mineral servitude, or a lessee of the owner;

  "Owner" includes a lessee; and

  "Premises" includes the land and all buildings and improvements thereon leased by a tenant, or possessed by an occupant. See Louisiana Code of Civil Procedure 4704

• Verdict: The decision of a petit jury or a judge.