Terms Used In New Mexico Statutes > Chapter 55 > Article 2A > Part 4

• Annuity: A periodic (usually annual) payment of a fixed sum of money for either the life of the recipient or for a fixed number of years. A series of payments under a contract from an insurance company, a trust company, or an individual. Annuity payments are made at regular intervals over a period of more than one full year.
• Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
• Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
• Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
• consumer lease: means a lease that a lessor regularly engaged in the business of leasing or selling makes to a lessee who is an individual and who takes under the lease primarily for a personal, family or household purpose. See New Mexico Statutes 55-2A-103
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
• fault: means wrongful act, omission, breach or default. See New Mexico Statutes 55-2A-103
• finance lease: means a lease with respect to which:

  (i) the lessor does not select, manufacture or supply the goods. See New Mexico Statutes 55-2A-103

• Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
• Garnishment: Generally, garnishment is a court proceeding in which a creditor asks a court to order a third party who owes money to the debtor or otherwise holds assets belonging to the debtor to turn over to the creditor any of the debtor
• goods: means all things that are movable at the time of identification to the lease contract or are fixtures (Section New Mexico Statutes 55-2A-103
• Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). ^{Source: OCC}
• lease: means a transfer of the right to possession and use of goods for a term in return for consideration, but a sale, including a sale on approval or a sale or return, or retention or creation of a security interest is not a lease. See New Mexico Statutes 55-2A-103
• lease agreement: means the bargain, with respect to the lease, of the lessor and the lessee in fact as found in their language or by implication from other circumstances, including course of dealing or usage or trade or course of performance as provided in this article. See New Mexico Statutes 55-2A-103
• lease contract: means the total legal obligation that results from the lease agreement as affected by this article and any other applicable rules of law. See New Mexico Statutes 55-2A-103
• lessee: means a person who acquires the right to possession and use of goods under a lease. See New Mexico Statutes 55-2A-103
• lessor: means a person who transfers the right to possession and use of goods under a lease. See New Mexico Statutes 55-2A-103
• 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.
• supplier: means a person from whom a lessor buys or leases goods to be leased under a finance lease. See New Mexico Statutes 55-2A-103