Indiana Code > Title 34 > Article 57 – Arbitration and Alternative Dispute Resolution
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Chapter 1 | Arbitration: Generally |
Chapter 2 | Arbitration: Uniform Arbitration Act |
Chapter 3 | Community Dispute Resolution |
Chapter 4 | Alternative Dispute Resolution |
Chapter 5 | Family Law Arbitration |
Terms Used In Indiana Code > Title 34 > Article 57 - Arbitration and Alternative Dispute Resolution
- Adjourn: A motion to adjourn a legislative chamber or a committee, if passed, ends that day's session.
- Appellate: About appeals; an appellate court has the power to review the judgement of another lower court or tribunal.
- Continuance: Putting off of a hearing ot trial until a later time.
- Counterclaim: A claim that a defendant makes against a plaintiff.
- Docket: A log containing brief entries of court proceedings.
- Dower: A widow
- Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
- Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
- Pleadings: Written statements of the parties in a civil case of their positions. In the federal courts, the principal pleadings are the complaint and the answer.
- Pro se: A Latin term meaning "on one's own behalf"; in courts, it refers to persons who present their own cases without lawyers.
- Remand: When an appellate court sends a case back to a lower court for further proceedings.
- 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.
- Transcript: A written, word-for-word record of what was said, either in a proceeding such as a trial or during some other conversation, as in a transcript of a hearing or oral deposition.
- Verdict: The decision of a petit jury or a judge.
- Verified: when applied to pleadings, means supported by oath or affirmation in writing. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5