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- Answer: The formal written statement by a defendant responding to a civil complaint and setting forth the grounds for defense.
- Bureau: refers to the Bureau of Household Goods and Services, as established in Section 9810. See California Business and Professions Code 19225.5
- City: includes "city and county" and "incorporated town" but does not include "unincorporated town" or "village. See California Government Code 20
- City: includes city and county. See California Business and Professions Code 18
- Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
- Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
- Corporation: includes a corporation, a company, a limited liability company, an association, and a joint stock association. See California Business and Professions Code 19225.5
- County: includes city and county. See California Government Code 19
- County: includes city and county. See California Health and Safety Code 14
- County: includes city and county. See California Business and Professions Code 17
- County: includes city and county. See California Food and Agricultural Code 29
- Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
- department: means State Department of Health Services. See California Health and Safety Code 20
- Director: refers to the Director of Consumer Affairs. See California Business and Professions Code 19225.5
- garbage: means any waste which consists in whole or in part of any animal waste that results from the handling, preparing, cooking, and consuming of food, including the offal from any animal carcass or from any part of an animal carcass. See California Food and Agricultural Code 10901
- Household mover: includes every corporation or person, their lessees, trustee, receivers, or trustees appointed by any court whatsoever, engaged in the permitted or unpermitted transportation for compensation or hire as a business by means of a motor vehicle or motor vehicles being used in the transportation of used household goods and personal effects over any public highway in this state. See California Business and Professions Code 19225.5
- Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
- Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
- Person: includes an individual, a firm, or a partnership. See California Business and Professions Code 19225.5
- Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
- service: includes the cost of maintaining any facility used to provide any service. See California Government Code 54708
- State: means the State of California, unless applied to the different parts of the United States. See California Business and Professions Code 21
- Writ: A formal written command, issued from the court, requiring the performance of a specific act.