Terms Used In Tennessee Code > Title 21 > Chapter 1 > Part 2 - Process

• 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.
• 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.
• 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
• 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.
• Authority: means the Tennessee state school bond authority created by §. See Tennessee Code 49-3-1202
• Board: means the board of trustees of the University of Tennessee or the board of regents of the state university and community college system, or both, as the case may be. See Tennessee Code 49-3-1202
• Board: means both the board of trustees of the University of Tennessee and the state board of education, or either of them. See Tennessee Code 49-3-1102
• Bonds: means any bonds of the board issued pursuant to this part. See Tennessee Code 49-3-1102
• Chambers: A judge's office.
• 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
• Commissioner: means the commissioner of commerce and insurance. See Tennessee Code 49-4-101
• 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: means a corporation or association not for profit authorized to administer a plan in the state. See Tennessee Code 49-4-101
• corporation: means the corporation created by §. See Tennessee Code 49-3-1202
• 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.
• County mayor: means and includes "county executive" unless the context clearly indicates otherwise. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
• Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
• Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
• Docket: A log containing brief entries of court proceedings.
• 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.
• Federal agency: means the United States, the president of the United States, the administrator of general services or such other agency or agencies as may be designated or created to make loans or grants or both pursuant to the recovery act or any further acts. See Tennessee Code 49-3-1102
• Fiscal year: means the period beginning January 1 and ending December 31 of each year. See Tennessee Code 49-4-101
• 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.
• 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
• Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
• Institution: means :
  (A) The University of Tennessee system, including all of its branches and divisions wherever located, and the services, programs and activities provided therein, and the board of trustees of the University of Tennessee, in the aggregate. See Tennessee Code 49-3-1202
• Institution: means any one of the East Tennessee State University, Middle Tennessee State University, the University of Memphis, the Tennessee Technological University, the University of Tennessee and the University of Tennessee, Martin branch. See Tennessee Code 49-3-1102
• Interest rate: The amount paid by a borrower to a lender in exchange for the use of the lender's money for a certain period of time. Interest is paid on loans or on debt instruments, such as notes or bonds, either at regular intervals or as part of a lump sum payment when the issue matures. ^{Source: OCC}
• Irrevocable trust: A trust arrangement that cannot be revoked, rescinded, or repealed by the grantor.
• 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.
• Lands: includes lands, tenements and hereditaments, and all rights thereto and interests therein, equitable as well as legal. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
• Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
• Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants.
• Loan agreement: means an agreement providing for the authority to loan the proceeds derived from the issuance of bonds, notes or other debt obligations pursuant to this chapter to a local government to be used to pay the cost of one (1) or more qualified zone academy projects. See Tennessee Code 49-3-1202
• Local government: means any county, metropolitan government, incorporated city or town or special school district in this state and the state board of education acting on behalf of any special school listed in §. See Tennessee Code 49-3-1202
• Member: means any person who is accepted as a member by the plan and who may later become eligible for a scholarship as provided in the charter and bylaws of the plan. See Tennessee Code 49-4-101
• Minor: means any person who has not attained eighteen (18) years of age. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
• Oath: A promise to tell the truth.
• Oath: includes affirmation. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• 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.
• Person: includes a corporation, firm, company or association. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• Personal property: All property that is not real property.
• Personal property: includes money, goods, chattels, things in action, and evidences of debt. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• Plan: means any educational cooperative plan or scholarship plan subject to this part. See Tennessee Code 49-4-101
• Project: means and includes buildings, structures, improvements and equipment of every kind, nature and description that may be required by or convenient for the purpose of an institution, including, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, administration, dining, exhibition, lecture, recreational and teaching halls, or parts of or additions to them. See Tennessee Code 49-3-1102
• Project: means and includes buildings, structures, improvements and equipment of every kind, nature and description, that may be required by or convenient for the purpose of an institution, or a combination of two (2) or more such buildings, structures, improvements and equipment. See Tennessee Code 49-3-1202
• 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
• Recovery act: means all acts or resolutions of the congress of the United States to encourage public works, to provide relief, work relief, or to increase employment by providing for useful projects and providing for the making of loans or grants or both. See Tennessee Code 49-3-1102
• 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
• Scholarship: means educational benefits payable pursuant to a plan which shall not be deemed to be distribution of income to a member of a corporation. See Tennessee Code 49-4-101
• School credit bond project: means and includes the acquisition of land for, and the construction, renovation, repair, rehabilitation, improving or equipping of, school facilities for a local government or a public charter school, as defined in §. See Tennessee Code 49-3-1202
• Service of process: The service of writs or summonses to the appropriate party.
• 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
• 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.
• To acquire: includes to purchase, erect, build, construct, reconstruct, repair, replace, extend, better, equip, develop or improve a project. See Tennessee Code 49-3-1102
• Tort: A civil wrong or breach of a duty to another person, as outlined by law. A very common tort is negligent operation of a motor vehicle that results in property damage and personal injury in an automobile accident.
• Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
• Uniform Commercial Code: A set of statutes enacted by the various states to provide consistency among the states' commercial laws. It includes negotiable instruments, sales, stock transfers, trust and warehouse receipts, and bills of lading. ^{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.
• 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