Terms Used In Tennessee Code > Title 17 > Chapter 4 - Judicial Nomination and Performance Evaluation

• Abnormal economic disruption: means a disruption or anticipated disruption to usual business conditions caused by a natural or man-made disaster or emergency resulting from a terrorist attack, war, strike, civil disturbance, tornado, earthquake, fire, flood, or any other natural disaster or man-made disaster. See Tennessee Code 47-18-5102
• Account: means the account between a card issuer and one (1) or more cardholders reflecting the outstanding balance of card transactions. See Tennessee Code 47-22-201
• Account agreement: means the contract between the card issuer and the cardholder(s) governing the parties' respective rights and obligations respecting the account and transactions effected thereunder. See Tennessee Code 47-22-201
• Account purchase transaction: means an agreement under which a commercial entity sells accounts, instruments, documents, or chattel paper to another commercial entity subject to a discount or fee, regardless of whether the commercial entity has a repurchase obligation related to the transaction. See Tennessee Code 47-22-301
• Acquired: means the obtaining of business records, a credit card account, or an instrument evidencing an outstanding debt through an ownership transfer, including a contractual agreement, an account purchase transaction or assignment in a creditor's regularly conducted business. See Tennessee Code 47-22-301
• Adjourn: A motion to adjourn a legislative chamber or a committee, if passed, ends that day's session.
• Affirmed: In the practice of the appellate courts, the decree or order is declared valid and will stand as rendered in the lower court.
• Agency: means each state board, commission, committee, department, officer, or any other unit of state government authorized or required by any statute or constitutional provision to make rules or to determine contested cases. See Tennessee Code 4-5-102
• Agreement: means a contract to provide payment services. See Tennessee Code 47-22-401
• Air ambulance membership organization: means an individual or entity that provides an air ambulance membership agreement. See Tennessee Code 47-18-5601
• 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.
• Amortization: Paying off a loan by regular installments.
• 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.
• 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
• Ascertainable loss: means an identifiable deprivation, detriment or injury arising from the identity theft or from any unfair, misleading or deceptive act or practice, even when the precise amount of the loss is not known. See Tennessee Code 47-18-5202
• Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
• Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
• Attorney general: means the office of the Tennessee attorney general and reporter. See Tennessee Code 47-18-2102
• Attorney general: means the attorney general and reporter, or the attorney general and reporter's designee. See Tennessee Code 47-18-5202
• Bankruptcy: Refers to statutes and judicial proceedings involving persons or businesses that cannot pay their debts and seek the assistance of the court in getting a fresh start. Under the protection of the bankruptcy court, debtors may discharge their debts, perhaps by paying a portion of each debt. Bankruptcy judges preside over these proceedings.
• Board: means the board of trustees of an authority. See Tennessee Code 7-57-103
• board of directors: means the governing board of a corporation, whether denominated the board of directors or otherwise, except that no person or group of persons is the board of directors because of powers delegated to that person or group pursuant to §. See Tennessee Code 48-51-201
• Building materials: means lumber, construction tools, windows, and anything else used in the building or rebuilding of property. See Tennessee Code 47-18-5102
• Business: means every trade, occupation, profession, investment activity, and other lawful purpose for gain or the preservation of assets, whether or not carried on for profit. See Tennessee Code 48-249-102
• card: means any card, plate, coupon book or other single credit device that is issued primarily for consumer credit purposes and that may be used from time to time to obtain credit, including, but not limited to, a card that may be used to effect transactions governed by chapter 11 of this title. See Tennessee Code 47-22-201
• Card issuer: means any person who issues a credit card, debit card, or other payment card, or the agent of the person with respect to the card. See Tennessee Code 47-22-401
• Card user: means any person authorized by the card issuer and all cardholders on an account to use a card pertaining to the account, but who is not obligated on the account of the issuer. See Tennessee Code 47-22-201
• Cardholder: means a natural person residing in Tennessee who has agreed with a card issuer to pay debts arising from card transactions, whether the card used in such transactions has been issued to the cardholder or to another person. See Tennessee Code 47-22-201
• Cardholder: means any person who has agreed with a card issuer to pay debts arising from card transactions, whether the card used in such transactions has been issued to the cardholder or to another person. See Tennessee Code 47-22-301
• Code: includes the Tennessee Code and all amendments and revisions to the code and all additions and supplements to the code. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• Collector: includes any person entrusted with the collection of public revenue. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• Common law: The legal system that originated in England and is now in use in the United States. It is based on judicial decisions rather than legislative action.
• Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• 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.
• Costs: means any expense or expenditure directly or indirectly related to the sale of a good or provision of a service or the operation of the person's business. See Tennessee Code 47-18-5102
• County mayor: means and includes "county executive" unless the context clearly indicates otherwise. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• Court: includes every court and judge having jurisdiction in the case. See Tennessee Code 48-202-101
• Creating municipality: means any city or metropolitan government having a population of not less than two hundred thousand (200,000), according to the 1970 federal census or any subsequent federal census, or any county in which any such city shall be situated, that shall create an authority pursuant to this chapter. See Tennessee Code 7-57-103
• Credit card: means any card, token, or similar identification device which is issued for the purpose of obtaining money, services, or merchandise pursuant to a credit arrangement. See Tennessee Code 47-22-101
• Credit card: means any card, plate, coupon book, or other credit device existing for the purpose of obtaining money, property, labor, or services on credit. See Tennessee Code 47-22-401
• Credit card account: means any account that can be accessed by a credit card, including a debit card with a credit feature, whereby the cardholder may obtain loans from time to time either by credit card cash advance or by the purchase or satisfactions by the bank of obligations of the cardholder incurred pursuant to a credit card. See Tennessee Code 47-22-301
• Credit report: A detailed report of an individual's credit history prepared by a credit bureau and used by a lender in determining a loan applicant's creditworthiness. ^{Source: OCC}
• Creditor: means the person, business, financial institution or commercial entity that currently owns a credit card account or an instrument evidencing outstanding debt. See Tennessee Code 47-22-301
• Custodian: means and includes an individual, agent, employee, representative, or officer of a creditor, or an individual, agent, employee, representative, or officer of a management company charged with keeping a creditor's records, or any individual familiar with the books and records of a creditor or an appropriately designated person who is an official custodian of records. See Tennessee Code 47-22-301
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
• Dissolution: means that the LLC has incurred an event under §. See Tennessee Code 48-202-101
• division: means the consumer protection division of the office of the attorney general and reporter. See Tennessee Code 47-18-5601
• domestic: means a limited liability company formed under this chapter, or a limited liability company formed under the Tennessee Limited Liability Company Act, compiled in chapters 201-248 of this title, that has elected to be governed by this chapter, or, where expressly indicated, a limited liability company formed under and governed by the Tennessee Limited Liability Company Act. See Tennessee Code 48-249-102
• Electronic mail message: means a message sent to a unique destination, commonly expressed as a string of characters, consisting of a unique user name or mailbox, commonly referred to as the "local part" and a reference to an Internet domain, commonly referred to as the "domain part" whether or not displayed, to which an electronic message can be sent or delivered. See Tennessee Code 47-18-5202
• Electronic records: means that information evidenced by a record or records consisting of information stored electronically which may be produced tangibly. See Tennessee Code 47-22-301
• Embezzlement: In most states, embezzlement is defined as theft/larceny of assets (money or property) by a person in a position of trust or responsibility over those assets. Embezzlement typically occurs in the employment and corporate settings. ^{Source: OCC}
• Emergency supplies: includes , but is not limited to, water, flashlights, radios, batteries, candles, blankets, soap, diapers, temporary shelters, tape, toiletries, plywood, nails, and hammers. See Tennessee Code 47-18-5102
• Entity: means , whether foreign or domestic and whether for profit or not-for-profit, limited liability companies, corporations, unincorporated associations, real estate investment trusts, statutory or business trusts or associations, estates, general partnerships, limited partnerships, registered or unregistered limited liability partnerships, limited liability limited partnerships or similar organizations, trusts, joint ventures, two (2) or more persons having a joint or common economic interest, and local, municipal, state, United States and foreign governments. See Tennessee Code 48-249-102
• Equitable: Pertaining to civil suits in "equity" rather than in "law." In English legal history, the courts of "law" could order the payment of damages and could afford no other remedy. See damages. A separate court of "equity" could order someone to do something or to cease to do something. See, e.g., injunction. In American jurisprudence, the federal courts have both legal and equitable power, but the distinction is still an important one. For example, a trial by jury is normally available in "law" cases but not in "equity" cases. ^{Source: U.S. Courts}
• Escrow: Money given to a third party to be held for payment until certain conditions are met.
• 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.
• Executive session: A portion of the Senate's daily session in which it considers executive business.
• Finance charge: The total cost of credit a customer must pay on a consumer loan, including interest. The Truth in Lending Act requires disclosure of the finance charge. ^{Source: OCC}
• Financial institution: means :
  (A) A banking institution that is authorized to issue credit cards pursuant to federal or state law. See Tennessee Code 47-22-301
• 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.
• Foreclosure: A legal process in which property that is collateral or security for a loan may be sold to help repay the loan when the loan is in default. ^{Source: OCC}
• Foreclosure-related rescue services: means any service related to or promising assistance in connection with:
  (A) Stopping, avoiding or delaying foreclosure proceedings concerning residential real property. See Tennessee Code 47-18-5401
• Foreclosure-rescue consultant: means a person who directly or indirectly makes a solicitation, representation or offer to a homeowner to provide or perform, in return for payment of money or other valuable consideration, foreclosure-related rescue services. See Tennessee Code 47-18-5401
• Foreclosure-rescue transaction: means a transaction that is designed or intended by the parties to stop, avoid or delay foreclosure proceedings against a homeowner's residential real property. See Tennessee Code 47-18-5401
• foreign: means a limited liability company that is formed under the laws of a jurisdiction other than this state. See Tennessee Code 48-249-102
• Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
• 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
• Gasoline: means any fuel used to power any motor vehicle or power tool. See Tennessee Code 47-18-5102
• Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
• Homeowner: means any record title owner of residential real property that is the subject of foreclosure proceedings. See Tennessee Code 47-18-5401
• hospital authority: means a public body and a body corporate and public organized in accordance with this chapter for the purposes, with the powers, and subject to the restrictions set forth in this chapter. See Tennessee Code 7-57-103
• Housing: means any rental housing leased on a month-to-month term. See Tennessee Code 47-18-5102
• Identification documents: means any card, certificate or document that identifies, or purports to identify, the bearer of such document, whether or not intended for use as identification, and includes, but is not limited to, documents purporting to be driver licenses, nondriver identification cards, birth certificates, marriage certificates, divorce certificates, passports, immigration documents, social security cards, employee identification cards, cards issued by the government to provide benefits of any sort, health care benefit cards, or health benefit organization, insurance company or managed care organization cards for the purpose of identifying a person eligible for services. See Tennessee Code 47-18-5202
• Identifying information: means , with respect to an individual, any of the following:
  (A) Social security number. See Tennessee Code 47-18-5202
• Identity theft: means :
  (A) Obtaining, possessing, transferring, using or attempting to obtain, possess, transfer or use, for unlawful economic benefit, one (1) or more identification documents or personal identification numbers of another person. See Tennessee Code 47-18-2102
• Incorporated: means to integrate into records, to make a part of records, to place within records, or to treat as records. See Tennessee Code 47-22-301
• Indemnification: In general, a collateral contract or assurance under which one person agrees to secure another person against either anticipated financial losses or potential adverse legal consequences. ^{Source: FDIC}
• Individual: includes the estate of an incompetent or deceased individual. See Tennessee Code 48-11-201
• Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
• Internet: means the global information system that is logically linked together by a globally unique address space based on the Internet protocol (IP), or its subsequent extensions, and that is able to support communications using the Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) suite, or its subsequent extensions, or other IP-compatible protocols, and that provides, uses, or makes accessible, either publicly or privately, high level services layered on communications and related infrastructure. See Tennessee Code 47-18-5202
• issuer: means a person doing business in Tennessee that issues a credit card or that person's agent or assignee with respect to the card. See Tennessee Code 47-22-201
• Issuer: means a person, business, financial institution, commercial entity or authorized agent of a financial institution that currently issues a credit card account or an instrument evidencing outstanding debt. See Tennessee Code 47-22-301
• Joint committee: Committees including membership from both houses of teh legislature. Joint committees are usually established with narrow jurisdictions and normally lack authority to report legislation.
• Joint session: When both chambers of a legislature adopt a concurrent resolution to meet together.
• 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.
• 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 a device for a term in return for consideration. See Tennessee Code 47-22-401
• Legislative session: That part of a chamber's daily session in which it considers legislative business (bills, resolutions, and actions related thereto).
• Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
• Lineal descendant: Direct descendant of the same ancestors.
• Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants.
• LLC: means a limited liability company, organized under chapters 201-248 of this title. See Tennessee Code 48-202-101
• Medical supplies: includes , but is not limited to, prescription and nonprescription medications, bandages, gauze, isopropyl alcohol, and antibacterial products. See Tennessee Code 47-18-5102
• Member: means a person that has been admitted to an LLC as a member, as provided in §. See Tennessee Code 48-249-102
• Merchant: means a person, located in this state, that is in the business of selling property or services and that accepts credit cards, debit cards, or other payment cards as payment for property or services sold. See Tennessee Code 47-22-401
• Month: means a calendar month. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
• Mortgage loan: A loan made by a lender to a borrower for the financing of real property. ^{Source: OCC}
• Mortgagee: The person to whom property is mortgaged and who has loaned the money.
• Multiple-party account: means any account under which two (2) or more cardholders, or one (1) or more cardholders and one (1) or more card users, may effect card transactions. See Tennessee Code 47-22-201
• National Bank: A bank that is subject to the supervision of the Comptroller of the Currency. The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency is a bureau of the U.S. Treasury Department. A national bank can be recognized because it must have "national" or "national association" in its name. ^{Source: OCC}
• 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.
• Order: means an agency action of particular applicability that determines the legal rights, duties, privileges, immunities or other legal interests of a specific person or persons. See Tennessee Code 4-5-102
• Original creditor: means the person, business, financial institution or commercial entity that had the original contractual agreement with a cardholder on a credit card account or an instrument evidencing outstanding debt. See Tennessee Code 47-22-301
• Other governing body: means only that body having the taxing authority. See Tennessee Code 5-19-102
• Participating municipality: means any city, town or county, which city, town or county, pursuant to a resolution of its governing body and an agreement with the creating municipality, shall have sold, leased, dedicated, donated or otherwise conveyed its hospitals to the authority for operation by the authority in order to make such hospital an operational part of its health care system. See Tennessee Code 7-57-103
• Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
• Party: means each person or agency named or admitted as a party, or properly seeking and entitled as of right to be admitted as a party. See Tennessee Code 4-5-102
• Payment acquirer: means a person that contracts directly with a merchant to provide payment services. See Tennessee Code 47-22-401
• Payment card network: means an entity:
  (A) That directly, or through licensed members, processors, or agents, provides the proprietary services, infrastructure, and software that route information and data to conduct credit card, debit card, or other payment card transaction authorization, clearance, and settlement. See Tennessee Code 47-22-401
• Payment services: means the acceptance, transmission, collection, or settlement of the merchant's sales receipts for the merchant's credit card, debit card, or other payment card transactions. See Tennessee Code 47-22-401
• Performing group: means a vocal or instrumental group seeking to use the name of another group that has previously released a commercial sound recording under that name. See Tennessee Code 47-18-5302
• Person: means any individual, partnership, corporation, association, governmental subdivision, or public or private organization of any character, including another agency. See Tennessee Code 4-5-102
• Person: means a natural person, consumer, individual, governmental agency, partnership, corporation, trust, estate, incorporated or unincorporated association, and any other legal or commercial entity however organized. See Tennessee Code 47-18-2102
• Person: means a natural person, consumer, individual, governmental agency, partnership, corporation, trust, estate, incorporated or unincorporated association, and any other legal or commercial entity however organized. See Tennessee Code 47-18-5202
• Person: means any individual, corporation, agency, business association, or similar group. See Tennessee Code 47-22-101
• Person: means an individual, corporation, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, limited liability company, association, joint venture, or any other legal entity. See Tennessee Code 47-22-301
• Person: means an individual or an entity. See Tennessee Code 48-249-102
• Person: includes a corporation, firm, company or association. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• Personal identification number: means any number that is assigned by the government to identify a particular person, including, but not limited to, social security number, federal tax payer identification number, Medicaid, Medicare or TennCare number which identifies a particular person eligible for benefits, any number assigned to a person as part of a licensure or registration process, such as a board of professional responsibility number, driver license number and passport number and any number assigned by an insurance company, health maintenance organization, managed care organization or other health benefit organization, for the purposes of identifying a particular person eligible for services. See Tennessee Code 47-18-2102
• Plaintiff: The person who files the complaint in a civil lawsuit.
• Policy: means any statement, document, or guideline prepared or issued by any agency pursuant to its delegated authority that merely defines or explains the meaning of a statute or a rule. See Tennessee Code 4-5-102
• Power of attorney: A written instrument which authorizes one person to act as another's agent or attorney. The power of attorney may be for a definite, specific act, or it may be general in nature. The terms of the written power of attorney may specify when it will expire. If not, the power of attorney usually expires when the person granting it dies. ^{Source: OCC}
• Presiding officer: A majority-party Senator who presides over the Senate and is charged with maintaining order and decorum, recognizing Members to speak, and interpreting the Senate's rules, practices and precedents.
• Principal executive office: means the office, in or out of this state, that is designated as the principal executive office of a domestic or foreign LLC in its articles or in an application for a certificate of authority, as applicable, as thereafter changed from time to time in accordance with this chapter. See Tennessee Code 48-249-102
• Proceeding: means any threatened, pending or completed action, suit or proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative, and whether formal or informal. See Tennessee Code 48-249-102
• Property: includes both personal and real property. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• Prosecute: To charge someone with a crime. A prosecutor tries a criminal case on behalf of the government.
• Public defender: Represent defendants who can't afford an attorney in criminal matters.
• Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
• Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
• real property: include lands, tenements and hereditaments, and all rights thereto and interests therein, equitable as well as legal. 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
• Recording group: means a vocal or instrumental group at least one (1) of whose members has previously released a commercial sound recording under that group's name and in which the member or members have a legal right by virtue of use or operation under the group name without having abandoned the name or affiliation with the group. See Tennessee Code 47-18-5302
• Remainder: An interest in property that takes effect in the future at a specified time or after the occurrence of some event, such as the death of a life tenant.
• 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).
• 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
• Residential real property: means improved real property used or occupied or intended to be used or occupied for residential purposes by the owner. See Tennessee Code 47-18-5401
• Restitution: The court-ordered payment of money by the defendant to the victim for damages caused by the criminal action.
• Rule: includes the establishment of a fee and the amendment or repeal of a prior rule. See Tennessee Code 4-5-102
• Savings and loan association: includes a building and loan association, a federal or state savings and loan association, a federal savings bank, and any other financial institution, the accounts of which are insured by the [former] federal savings and loan insurance corporation (FSLIC) or any successor [repealed] of such corporation. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• Service of process: The service of writs or summonses to the appropriate party.
• Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
• signed: includes a mark, the name being written near the mark and witnessed, or any other symbol or methodology executed or adopted by a party with intention to authenticate a writing or record, regardless of being witnessed. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• Sound recording: means a work that results from the fixation on a material object of a series of musical, spoken or other sounds regardless of the nature of the material object, such as a disc, tape, or other phono-record, in which the sounds are embodied. See Tennessee Code 47-18-5302
• State: means the state of Tennessee. See Tennessee Code 7-57-103
• 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
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
• Succeeding creditor: means any creditor, not the originating creditor, succeeding to an ownership interest in a credit card account or an instrument evidencing outstanding debt by bill of sale or assignment. See Tennessee Code 47-22-301
• Temporary restraining order: Prohibits a person from an action that is likely to cause irreparable harm. This differs from an injunction in that it may be granted immediately, without notice to the opposing party, and without a hearing. It is intended to last only until a hearing can be held.
• Tennessee Consumer Protection Act: means the Tennessee Consumer Protection Act of 1977, as amended, compiled in part 1 of this chapter and related statutes. See Tennessee Code 47-18-2102
• Tennessee Consumer Protection Act: means the Tennessee Consumer Protection Act of 1977, compiled in part 1 of this chapter and related statutes. See Tennessee Code 47-18-5202
• Termination: means the end of an LLC's existence as a legal entity and occurs when the articles of termination are filed with the secretary of state under §. See Tennessee Code 48-202-101
• Testify: Answer questions in court.
• transaction: means a cash advance, purchase, or other extension of credit effected or obtained by means of a credit card or account number. See Tennessee Code 47-22-201
• Trial: A hearing that takes place when the defendant pleads "not guilty" and witnesses are required to come to court to give evidence.
• Trust account: A general term that covers all types of accounts in a trust department, such as estates, guardianships, and agencies. ^{Source: OCC}
• United States: includes the District of Columbia and the several territories of the United States. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• Venue: The geographical location in which a case is tried.
• Web page: means a location that has a single uniform resource locator or other single location with respect to the internet. See Tennessee Code 47-18-5202
• Wireless communication: includes text messages sent and received on smart devices. See Tennessee Code 47-18-5202
• 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