Terms Used In Tennessee Code > Title 35 > Chapter 15 > Part 2 - Judicial Proceedings

• Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
• Beneficiary: A person who is entitled to receive the benefits or proceeds of a will, trust, insurance policy, retirement plan, annuity, or other contract. ^{Source: OCC}
• Beneficiary: means a person that has a present or future beneficial interest in a trust, vested or contingent. See Tennessee Code 35-15-103
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Decedent: A deceased person.
• Department: means the department of commerce and insurance. See Tennessee Code 56-51-102
• Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
• Enrollee: means an individual, including dependents, who is entitled to limited health services pursuant to a contract, or any other evidence of coverage, with a health maintenance organization, licensed pursuant to chapter 32 of this title, or a contract with a state or federal agency. See Tennessee Code 56-51-102
• 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.
• Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
• Limited health service: means dental care services, vision care services, mental health services, substance abuse services, and pharmaceutical services. See Tennessee Code 56-51-102
• Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
• Person: means an individual. See Tennessee Code 35-15-103
• Prepaid limited health service organization: means any person, corporation, partnership, or any other entity that, in return for a prepayment from a health maintenance organization or a state or federal agency, undertakes to provide or arrange for, or provide access to, the provision of a limited health service to enrollees through an exclusive panel of providers. See Tennessee Code 56-51-102
• Probate: Proving a will
• Property: means anything that may be the subject of ownership, whether real or personal, legal or equitable, or any interest therein. See Tennessee Code 35-15-103
• Provider: means , but is not limited to, any physician, dentist, health facility, or other person or institution that is duly licensed in this state to deliver limited health services. See Tennessee Code 56-51-102
• Record: means information that is inscribed on a tangible medium or that is stored in an electronic or other medium and is retrievable in a perceivable form. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• Representative: when applied to those who represent a decedent, includes executors and administrators, unless the context implies heirs and distributees. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• sex: means a person's immutable biological sex as determined by anatomy and genetics existing at the time of birth and evidence of a person's biological sex. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• State: means a state of the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, or any territory or insular possession subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. See Tennessee Code 35-15-103
• State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the several territories of the United States. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• Subscriber: means an individual on whose behalf a contract or arrangement has been entered into with a prepaid limited health service organization for health care services or other persons who also receive health care services as a result of the contract. See Tennessee Code 56-51-102
• This state: means the state of Tennessee. See Tennessee Code 35-15-103
• Trust advisor: means any person described in §. See Tennessee Code 35-15-103
• Trust protector: means any person described in §. See Tennessee Code 35-15-103
• Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
• Trustee: includes an original, additional, and successor trustee, and a cotrustee. See Tennessee Code 35-15-103
• Venue: The geographical location in which a case is tried.
• written: includes printing, typewriting, engraving, lithography, and any other mode of representing words and letters. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105