Terms Used In California Codes > Streets and Highways Code > Division 17 > Chapter 1 - The California Toll Bridge Authority Act

• Ancillary administration: Probate administration of property (usually real property) owned in a State other than the one in which the decedent had his (her) principal residence at the time of death.
• Appraisal: A determination of property value.
• Associate: when used with respect to a licensee, means all of the following:

  California Corporations Code 28820

• Beneficiary: means a person to whom a donative transfer of property is made or that person's successor in interest, and:

  California Probate Code 24

• City: includes "city and county" and "incorporated town. See California Streets and Highways Code 15
• Close relative: means ancestor, lineal descendant, brother or sister and lineal descendants of either, spouse, father-in-law, mother-in-law, son-in-law, brother-in-law, daughter-in-law, or sister-in-law. See California Corporations Code 28820
• commission: means the California Transportation Commission. See California Streets and Highways Code 22
• Community property: means :

  California Probate Code 28

• Conservator: includes a limited conservator. See California Probate Code 30
• Construction: includes :

  California Streets and Highways Code 29

• County: includes "city and county. See California Welfare and Institutions Code 14
• County: includes "city and county. See California Streets and Highways Code 14
• County: includes city and county. See California Unemployment Insurance Code 14
• custody: means the legal right to custody of the child unless that right is held jointly by two or more persons, in which case "custody" means the physical custody of the child by one of the persons sharing the right to custody. See California Welfare and Institutions Code 17.1
• Department: means the Department of Transportation of this state. See California Streets and Highways Code 20
• Devisee: means any person designated in a will to receive a devise. See California Probate Code 34
• Director: means the director of the department. See California Streets and Highways Code 21
• Fair market value: The price at which an asset would change hands in a transaction between a willing, informed buyer and a willing, informed seller.
• 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
• highway: includes bridges, culverts, curbs, drains, and all works incidental to highway construction, improvement, and maintenance. See California Streets and Highways Code 23
• Intestate: Dying without leaving a will.
• Lineal descendant: Direct descendant of the same ancestors.
• maintenance: includes any of the following:

  California Streets and Highways Code 27

• 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, partnership, association, corporation, organization, limited liability company, or business trust. See California Streets and Highways Code 19
• Personal representative: means executor, administrator, administrator with the will annexed, special administrator, successor personal representative, public administrator acting pursuant to Section 7660, or a person who performs substantially the same function under the law of another jurisdiction governing the person's status. See California Probate Code 58
• Probation officers: Screen applicants for pretrial release and monitor convicted offenders released under court supervision.
• Real property: includes a leasehold interest in real property. See California Probate Code 68
• Security: includes any note, stock, treasury stock, bond, debenture, evidence of indebtedness, certificate of interest or participation in an oil, gas, or mining title or lease or in payments out of production under such a title or lease, collateral trust certificate, transferable share, voting trust certificate or, in general, any interest or instrument commonly known as a security, or any certificate of interest or participation, any temporary or interim certificate, receipt, or certificate of deposit for, or any warrant or right to subscribe to or purchase, any of the foregoing. See California Probate Code 70
• Spouse: includes "registered domestic partner" as required by §. See California Welfare and Institutions Code 12.2
• Spouse: includes domestic partner, as defined in Section 37 of this code, as required by §. See California Probate Code 72
• Spouse: includes "registered domestic partner" as required by §. See California Corporations Code 12.2
• Spouse: includes "registered domestic partner" as required by §. See California Unemployment Insurance Code 11.2
• State highway: means any highway which is acquired, laid out, constructed, improved or maintained as a State highway pursuant to constitutional or legislative authorization. See California Streets and Highways Code 24
• Summons: Another word for subpoena used by the criminal justice system.
• Testate: To die leaving a will.
• Transferee: means the beneficiary, donee, or other recipient of an interest transferred by an instrument. See California Probate Code 81.5
• Trustee: includes an original, additional, or successor trustee, whether or not appointed or confirmed by a court. See California Probate Code 84
• Will: includes codicil and any testamentary instrument which merely appoints an executor or revokes or revises another will. See California Probate Code 88