Sections
Article 1 Jurisdiction and Venue 22-201 – 22-206
Article 2 Pleadings and Procedure 22-211 – 22-224
Article 3 Judgments and Executions 22-241 – 22-247
Article 4 Appeals 22-261 – 22-265
Article 5 Fees and Costs 22-281 – 22-284

Terms Used In Arizona Laws > Title 22 > Chapter 2 - Civil Proceedings in Justice Courts

  • Affirmed: In the practice of the appellate courts, the decree or order is declared valid and will stand as rendered in the lower court.
  • 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.
  • Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
  • Authorized delegate: means a person that a licensee designates to engage in money transmission on behalf of the licensee. See Arizona Laws 6-1201
  • Average daily money transmission liability: means the amount of the licensee's outstanding money transmission obligations at the end of each day in quarters ending March 31, June 30, September 30 and December 31, added together and divided by the total number of days in each quarter. See Arizona Laws 6-1201
  • Counterclaim: A claim that a defendant makes against a plaintiff.
  • Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
  • Department: means the department of insurance and financial institutions. See Arizona Laws 6-101
  • Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
  • Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
  • Juror: A person who is on the jury.
  • Licensee: means a person licensed under this article. See Arizona Laws 6-1201
  • Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
  • money received for transmission: means receiving money or monetary value in the United States for transmission within or outside the United States by electronic or other means. See Arizona Laws 6-1201
  • Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
  • municipal court: as used in this title includes city or town magistrates' courts and all other courts established by law in incorporated cities and towns. See Arizona Laws 22-401
  • NMLS: means the nationwide multistate licensing system and registry that is developed by a conference of state bank supervisors and the American association of residential mortgage regulators and that is owned and operated by a state regulatory registry for the licensing and registration of persons in financial services industries. See Arizona Laws 6-1201
  • Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
  • Person: means any individual, general partnership, limited partnership, limited liability company, corporation, trust, association, joint stock corporation or other corporate entity identified by the director. See Arizona Laws 6-1201
  • 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.
  • Population: means the population according to the most recent United States decennial census. See Arizona Laws 1-215
  • Process: means a citation, writ or summons issued in the course of judicial proceedings. See Arizona Laws 1-215
  • Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
  • Remand: When an appellate court sends a case back to a lower court for further proceedings.
  • Service of process: The service of writs or summonses to the appropriate party.
  • Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
  • Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
  • subscription: includes a mark, if a person cannot write, with the person's name written near it and witnessed by a person who writes the person's own name as witness. See Arizona Laws 1-215
  • Summons: Another word for subpoena used by the criminal justice system.
  • Tangible net worth: means the aggregate assets of a licensee excluding all intangible assets, minus liabilities, as determined in accordance with United States generally accepted accounting principles. See Arizona Laws 6-1201
  • 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.
  • Venue: The geographical location in which a case is tried.
  • Verdict: The decision of a petit jury or a judge.