Terms Used In California Codes > Health and Safety Code > Division 31 > Part 7 - SOLAR AND ENERGY CONSERVATION MORTGAGE CORPORATION

• Action: includes a civil action and a special proceeding of a civil nature. See California Code of Civil Procedure 2016.020
• Appointive property: means the property or interest in property that is the subject of the power of appointment. See California Probate Code 610
• Branch business unit: means all or substantially all of the business of a branch office of a depository corporation. See California Financial Code 4840
• Business unit: means a branch business unit, a partial business unit, or a whole business unit. See California Financial Code 4840
• capital paid-in: means :

  California Insurance Code 36

• Casualty broker-agent: means a person licensed pursuant to Section 1625. See California Insurance Code 33.5
• Conservator: includes a limited conservator. See California Probate Code 30
• Court: means the trial court in which the action is pending, unless otherwise specified. See California Code of Civil Procedure 2016.020
• Creating instrument: means the deed, will, trust, or other writing or document that creates or reserves the power of appointment. See California Probate Code 610
• Decedent: A deceased person.
• department: means State Department of Health Services. See California Health and Safety Code 20
• Deposition: An oral statement made before an officer authorized by law to administer oaths. Such statements are often taken to examine potential witnesses, to obtain discovery, or to be used later in trial.
• Devisee: means any person designated in a will to receive a devise. See California Probate Code 34
• Donor: means the person who creates or reserves a power of appointment. See California Probate Code 610
• Donor: The person who makes a gift.
• Electronic: means relating to technology having electrical, digital, magnetic, wireless, optical, electromagnetic, or similar capabilities. See California Code of Civil Procedure 2016.020
• Electronically stored information: means information that is stored in an electronic medium. See California Code of Civil Procedure 2016.020
• Ex officio: Literally, by virtue of one's office.
• Executor: A male person named in a will to carry out the decedent
• Fiduciary: means personal representative, trustee, guardian, conservator, attorney-in-fact under a power of attorney, custodian under the California Uniform Transfer To Minors Act (Part 9 (commencing with Section 3900) of Division 4), or other legal representative subject to this code. See California Probate Code 39
• Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
• Foreign: means not organized under the laws of this State, whether or not admitted. See California Insurance Code 27
• Heir: means any person, including the surviving spouse, who is entitled to take property of the decedent by intestate succession under this code. See California Probate Code 44
• Independent trust company: means a trust company that is neither a commercial bank nor a title insurance company. See California Financial Code 4840
• Instrument: means a will, a document establishing or modifying a trust, a deed, or any other writing that designates a beneficiary or makes a donative transfer of property. See California Probate Code 45
• Insurance agent: means a person authorized, by and on behalf of an insurer, to transact all classes of insurance other than life, disability, or health insurance, on behalf of an admitted insurance company. See California Insurance Code 31
• Insurance broker: means a person who, for compensation and on behalf of another person, transacts insurance other than life, disability, or health with, but not on behalf of, an insurer. See California Insurance Code 33
• Inter vivos: Transfer of property from one living person to another living person.
• interested person: includes any of the following:

  California Probate Code 48

• Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
• Partial business unit: means all or substantially all of any of the following:

  California Financial Code 4840

• Person: means an individual, corporation, government or governmental subdivision or agency, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, limited liability company, association, or other entity. See California Probate Code 56
• Person: means any person, firm, association, organization, partnership, business trust, corporation, limited liability company, or company. See California Health and Safety Code 19
• Person: means any person, association, organization, partnership, business trust, limited liability company, or corporation. See California Insurance Code 19
• Person: includes a corporation as well as a natural person. See California Code of Civil Procedure 17
• Power of appointment: means a power that enables a powerholder acting in a nonfiduciary capacity to designate a recipient of an ownership interest in or another power of appointment over the appointive property. See California Probate Code 610
• Powerholder: means the person to whom a power of appointment is given or in whose favor a power of appointment is reserved. See California Probate Code 610
• Property: means anything that may be the subject of ownership and includes both real and personal property and any interest therein. See California Probate Code 62
• Purchaser: means a depository corporation that purchases a business unit from another depository corporation pursuant to the provisions of this chapter. See California Financial Code 4840
• Seller: means a depository corporation that sells a business unit to another depository corporation pursuant to the provisions of this chapter. See California Financial Code 4840
• State: means the State of California, unless applied to the different parts of the United States. See California Health and Safety Code 23
• Testator: A male person who leaves a will at death.
• Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
• Trust: includes the following:

  California Probate Code 82

• Trustee: includes an original, additional, or successor trustee, whether or not appointed or confirmed by a court. See California Probate Code 84
• Whole business unit: means all or substantially all of the business of a depository corporation. See California Financial Code 4840
• Will: includes codicil and any testamentary instrument which merely appoints an executor or revokes or revises another will. See California Probate Code 88