Texas Health and Safety Code Chapter 327 – Disclosure of Prices
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- 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.
- Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
- Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
- Continuance: Putting off of a hearing ot trial until a later time.
- Justice: when applied to a magistrate, means justice of the peace. See Texas Government Code 312.011
- Plaintiff: The person who files the complaint in a civil lawsuit.
- Remand: When an appellate court sends a case back to a lower court for further proceedings.