Terms Used In Tennessee Code > Title 66 > Chapter 2 - Power to Own and Convey Property

• Animal: means a domesticated living creature or a wild creature previously captured. See Tennessee Code 39-14-201
• Bodily injury: includes a cut, abrasion, bruise, burn or disfigurement, and physical pain or temporary illness or impairment of the function of a bodily member, organ, or mental faculty. See Tennessee Code 39-11-106
• Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
• Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
• Devise: To gift property by will.
• Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
• 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}
• Lands: includes lands, tenements and hereditaments, and all rights thereto and interests therein, equitable as well as legal. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• Law enforcement officer: includes a sheriff, sheriff's deputy, and, only for purposes of the enhancement of a crime, a deputy jailer. See Tennessee Code 39-11-106
• 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}
• Livestock: means all equine as well as animals which are being raised primarily for use as food or fiber for human utilization or consumption including, but not limited to, cattle, sheep, swine, goats, and poultry. See Tennessee Code 39-14-201
• Owner: means a person, other than the defendant, who has possession of or any interest other than a mortgage, deed of trust or security interest in property, even though that possession or interest is unlawful and without whose consent the defendant has no authority to exert control over the property. See Tennessee Code 39-11-106
• 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.
• Person: includes the singular and the plural and means and includes any individual, firm, partnership, copartnership, association, corporation, governmental subdivision or agency, or other organization or other legal entity, or any agent or servant thereof. See Tennessee Code 39-11-106
• Probable cause: A reasonable ground for belief that the offender violated a specific law.
• Property: means anything of value, including, but not limited to, money, real estate, tangible or intangible personal property, including anything severed from land, library material, contract rights, choses-in-action, interests in or claims to wealth, credit, admission or transportation tickets, captured or domestic animals, food and drink, electric or other power. See Tennessee Code 39-11-106
• Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
• Real property: means one (1) or more defined parcels or tracts of land or interests, benefits, and rights inherent in the ownership of real estate, including easements, water rights, agricultural land, or any other interest in real property. See Tennessee Code 66-2-301
• Restitution: The court-ordered payment of money by the defendant to the victim for damages caused by the criminal action.
• Sanctioned foreign business: means :
  (A) A corporation incorporated under the laws of a foreign country of a sanctioned foreign government. See Tennessee Code 66-2-301
• Sanctioned foreign government: means a government other than the government of the United States, its states, its territories, or its possessions, that is identified by the office of foreign assets control of the U. See Tennessee Code 66-2-301
• Sanctioned nonresident alien: means an individual who is either:
  (i) A citizen of a sanctioned foreign government. See Tennessee Code 66-2-301
• Services: includes labor, skill, professional service, transportation, telephone, mail, gas, electricity, steam, water, cable television, entertainment subscription service or other public services, accommodations in hotels, restaurants or elsewhere, admissions to exhibitions, use of vehicles or other movable property, and any other activity or product considered in the ordinary course of business to be a service, regardless of whether it is listed in this subdivision (a)(38) or a specific statute exists covering the same or similar conduct. See Tennessee Code 39-11-106
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.