Terms Used In Tennessee Code > Title 66 > Chapter 33 - Real Property Records Integrity Act

• Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
• Defendant: means a person accused of an offense under this title and includes any person who aids or abets the commission of such offense. See Tennessee Code 39-11-106
• Oath: means a solemn and formal undertaking to tell the truth and includes an equivalent affirmation permitted by law as a substitute for an oath administered by a person authorized by law to take statements under oath. See Tennessee Code 39-16-701
• Person: means a natural person, partnership, association, cooperative, corporation, trust, or other legal entity. See Tennessee Code 66-33-102
• 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
• 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
• Public servant: means :
  (A) Any public officer or employee of the state or of any political subdivision of the state or of any governmental instrumentality within the state including, but not limited to, law enforcement officers. See Tennessee Code 39-11-106
• 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
• Recording: means presenting a document to a county register in this state for official placement in the public land records. See Tennessee Code 66-33-102
• Residential real estate: means real property located in this state that is used primarily for personal, family, or household purposes and is improved by one (1) to four (4) dwelling units. See Tennessee Code 66-33-102
• Service agreement: means a contract pursuant to which a person agrees to provide services in connection with the sale of residential real estate or the sale of any product or the performance of any personal service on or for the maintenance of residential real estate. See Tennessee Code 66-33-102
• Service provider: means a person who provides services or products to a consumer. See Tennessee Code 66-33-102
• Statement: means any representation of fact. See Tennessee Code 39-16-701
• Statute of limitations: A law that sets the time within which parties must take action to enforce their rights.