Terms Used In Tennessee Code > Title 56 > Chapter 9 > Part 2 - Summary Proceedings

• Chambers: A judge's office.
• Commissioner: means the commissioner of commerce and insurance. See Tennessee Code 56-9-103
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Delinquency proceeding: means any proceeding instituted against an insurer for the purpose of liquidating, rehabilitating, reorganizing or conserving the insurer, and any summary proceeding under §. See Tennessee Code 56-9-103
• Department: means the department of commerce and insurance. See Tennessee Code 56-1-102
• Insurer: means any person who has done, purports to do, is doing or is licensed to do an insurance business, and is or has been subject to the authority of, or to liquidation, rehabilitation, reorganization, supervision, or conservation by, any insurance commissioner. See Tennessee Code 56-9-103
• 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.
• Person: means any association, aggregate of individuals, business, company, corporation, individual, joint-stock company, Lloyds-type organization, organization, partnership, receiver, reciprocal or interinsurance exchange, trustee or society. See Tennessee Code 56-16-102
• Property: includes both personal and real property. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• 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
• State: means any state, district or territory of the United States and the Panama Canal Zone. See Tennessee Code 56-9-103
• written: includes printing, typewriting, engraving, lithography, and any other mode of representing words and letters. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105