Terms Used In North Dakota Code > Chapter 37-02 - Organization of Militia

• Individual: means a human being. See North Dakota Code 1-01-49
• Male: means a boy, man, or an individual whose biological reproductive system is developed to produce sperm. See North Dakota Code 1-01-49
• Military: means armed forces. See North Dakota Code 37-01-01
• Militia: means a group of individuals defined in the Constitution of North Dakota. See North Dakota Code 37-01-01
• National guard: means that part of the military forces of this state which is organized, equipped, and federally recognized under the provisions of the National Defense Act, as amended, of the United States as the "national guard, air national guard, of the United States and the state of North Dakota". See North Dakota Code 37-01-01
• Organization: includes a foreign or domestic association, business trust, corporation, enterprise, estate, joint venture, limited liability company, limited liability partnership, limited partnership, partnership, trust, or any legal or commercial entity. See North Dakota Code 1-01-49
• Precedent: A court decision in an earlier case with facts and law similar to a dispute currently before a court. Precedent will ordinarily govern the decision of a later similar case, unless a party can show that it was wrongly decided or that it differed in some significant way.
• State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See North Dakota Code 1-01-49
• United States: includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See North Dakota Code 1-01-49