Terms Used In Arizona Laws > Title 14 > Chapter 11 > Article 2 - Judicial Proceedings

• Action: includes any matter or proceeding in a court, civil or criminal. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Court: means the superior court. See Arizona Laws 14-1201
• Decedent: A deceased person.
• including: means not limited to and is not a term of exclusion. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Interested person: includes any trustee, heir, devisee, child, spouse, creditor, beneficiary, person holding a power of appointment and other person who has a property right in or claim against a trust estate or the estate of a decedent, ward or protected person. See Arizona Laws 14-1201
• 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.
• Person: means an individual, corporation, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, limited liability company, association, joint venture, government, governmental subdivision, agency or instrumentality, public corporation or any other legal or commercial entity. See Arizona Laws 14-10103
• Proceeding: includes action at law and suit in equity. See Arizona Laws 14-1201
• Property: means anything that may be the subject of ownership, whether real or personal, legal or equitable, or any interest in anything that may be the subject of ownership. See Arizona Laws 14-10103
• State: means a state of the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands or any territory or insular possession subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. See Arizona Laws 14-10103
• Trust: includes an express trust, private or charitable, with any additions, wherever and however created. See Arizona Laws 14-1201
• Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
• Trustee: includes an original, additional and successor trustee and a cotrustee. See Arizona Laws 14-10103
• Venue: The geographical location in which a case is tried.
• Will: includes a codicil and any testamentary instrument that merely appoints an executor, revokes or revises another will, nominates a guardian or expressly excludes or limits the right of an individual or class to succeed to property of the decedent passing by intestate succession. See Arizona Laws 14-1201