Connecticut General Statutes 15-102 – Definitions
Terms used in this chapter, unless the context requires otherwise, shall have the meanings assigned to them by § 15-34, and as follows:
Terms Used In Connecticut General Statutes 15-102
- 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.
- conditional vendee: shall be construed to mean "debtor". See Connecticut General Statutes 1-1a
- Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
- Judgment: means any judgment which has become final by expiration without appeal of the time within which an appeal might have been perfected, or by final affirmation on appeal, rendered by a court of competent jurisdiction of any state or of the United States, upon a claim for damages suffered by a claimant arising out of the ownership, operation, maintenance or use of any aircraft, including damages for care and loss of services, because of bodily injury to or death of any person or injury to or destruction of property, including the loss of use thereof, or upon an agreement of settlement for such damages. See Connecticut General Statutes 15-102
- 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.
- Mortgagor: The person who pledges property to a creditor as collateral for a loan and who receives the money.
- Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
- Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
(a) “Judgment” means any judgment which has become final by expiration without appeal of the time within which an appeal might have been perfected, or by final affirmation on appeal, rendered by a court of competent jurisdiction of any state or of the United States, upon a claim for damages suffered by a claimant arising out of the ownership, operation, maintenance or use of any aircraft, including damages for care and loss of services, because of bodily injury to or death of any person or injury to or destruction of property, including the loss of use thereof, or upon an agreement of settlement for such damages.
(b) “Nonresident’s operating privilege” means the privilege conferred upon a nonresident by the law of this state pertaining to the operation by him of an aircraft, or the use of an aircraft owned by him, in this state.
(c) “Operator” means any person who is exercising actual physical control of an aircraft.
(d) “Owner” means any of the following persons who may be legally responsible for the operation of an aircraft: (1) A person who holds the legal title to an aircraft; (2) a lessee of an aircraft; (3) a conditional vendee, a trustee under a trust receipt and a mortgagor or other person holding an aircraft subject to a security interest.
(e) “Passenger” means any person in, on or boarding an aircraft for the purpose of riding therein, or alighting therefrom following a flight or attempted flight therein.
(f) Repealed by June, 1972, P.A. 1, S. 8.
(g) “Resident’s operating privilege” means the privilege conferred upon a resident by the law of this state pertaining to the operation by him of an aircraft, or the use of an aircraft owned by him, in this state.