Terms Used In Tennessee Code > Title 63 > Chapter 25 - Dietetics/Nutrition Practice 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.
• Allegation: something that someone says happened.
• 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.
• Board: means the board of dietitian/nutritionist examiners. See Tennessee Code 63-25-103
• Child: means any person under twenty-one (21) years of age. See Tennessee Code 37-10-201
• Child: means :
  (i) A person under eighteen (18) years of age. See Tennessee Code 37-5-103
• Commissioner: means the commissioner of children's services. See Tennessee Code 37-5-103
• 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.
• Department: means the department of children's services. See Tennessee Code 37-5-103
• Department: means the department of health. See Tennessee Code 63-25-103
• Division: means the division of health related boards within the department. See Tennessee Code 63-25-103
• Family: means the members of a household living, on a full-time or a part-time basis, in one (1) house, condominium, apartment or other dwelling. See Tennessee Code 37-5-601
• Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
• Guardian: A person legally empowered and charged with the duty of taking care of and managing the property of another person who because of age, intellect, or health, is incapable of managing his (her) own affairs.
• Guardian: means , for purposes of adoptions and terminations of parental rights, the meanings set forth in §. See Tennessee Code 37-5-103
• 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.
• Juvenile: means a person under eighteen (18) years of age. See Tennessee Code 37-5-103
• Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants.
• Maltreatment: means abuse as defined in §. See Tennessee Code 37-5-601
• Minor: means any person who has not attained eighteen (18) years of age. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• Missing child: means a child who is believed to have been removed by force, persuasion, trick, enticement, false pretense, has voluntarily left the custody of such child's parent without permission or is absent for unexplained or unknown reasons. See Tennessee Code 37-10-201
• Parent: means a natural or adoptive parent, guardian, or person or organization standing in a loco parentis position by virtue of an order of a court. See Tennessee Code 37-10-201
• Person: includes a corporation, firm, company or association. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• Probable cause: A reasonable ground for belief that the offender violated a specific law.
• Property: includes both personal and real property. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
• 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
• Report of harm: means a report regarding child abuse filed under §. See Tennessee Code 37-5-103
• Reporter: Makes a record of court proceedings and prepares a transcript, and also publishes the court's opinions or decisions (in the courts of appeals).
• 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
• Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
• Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
• United States: includes the District of Columbia and the several territories of the United States. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• written: includes printing, typewriting, engraving, lithography, and any other mode of representing words and letters. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• Year: means a calendar year, unless otherwise expressed. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105