Terms Used In Utah Code > Title 13 > Chapter 43 > Part 1 - General Provisions

• 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.
• Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.
• Case law: The law as laid down in cases that have been decided in the decisions of the courts.
• City: includes , depending on population, a metro township as defined in Section 10-3c-102. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
• 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.
• Process: means a writ or summons issued in the course of a judicial proceeding. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
• Property: includes both real and personal property. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
• Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
• real property: includes :
       (31)(a) land;
       (31)(b) a tenement;
       (31)(c) a hereditament;
       (31)(d) a water right;
       (31)(e) a possessory right; and
       (31)(f) a claim. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
• Service of process: The service of writs or summonses to the appropriate party.
• State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes a state, district, or territory of the United States. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
• taking: means a governmental action resulting in a taking of real property that requires compensation to the owner of the property under:
       (1)(a) the Fifth or Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution of the United States; or
       (1)(b) Utah Constitution Article I, § 22. See Utah Code 13-43-102
• United States: includes each state, district, and territory of the United States of America. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5