Connecticut General Statutes 52-350a – Definitions
For the purposes of this chapter and § 49-51, unless the context otherwise requires:
Terms Used In Connecticut General Statutes 52-350a
- 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.
- Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
- 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.
- Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
- 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.
- Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
- Personal property: All property that is not real property.
- succeeding: when used by way of reference to any section or sections, mean the section or sections next preceding, next following or next succeeding, unless some other section is expressly designated in such reference. See Connecticut General Statutes 1-1
(1) “Conspicuous” means conspicuous as defined in § 42a-1-201.
(2) “Consumer debt or obligation” means a debt or obligation incurred primarily for personal, family or household purposes.
(3) “Consumer judgment” means a money judgment of less than five thousand dollars against a natural person resulting from any consumer debt or obligation.
(4) “Disposable earnings” means that part of the earnings of an individual remaining after the deduction from those earnings of amounts required to be withheld for payment of federal income and employment taxes, normal retirement contributions, union dues and initiation fees, group life insurance premiums, health insurance premiums, and federal tax levies.
(5) “Earnings” means any debt accruing by reason of personal services, including any compensation payable by an employer to an employee for such personal services, whether denominated as wages, salary, commission, bonus or otherwise.
(6) “Employer” means any person owing a debt accruing to the judgment debtor by reason of personal services.
(7) “Family support judgment” means a judgment, order or decree of the Superior Court or a family support magistrate for payment of a legal obligation for support or alimony to a spouse, former spouse or child and includes any such order for periodic payments whether issued pendente lite or otherwise.
(8) “Financial institution” means a financial institution as defined in § 36a-41.
(9) “Installment payment order” means the fixing by the court of a sum to be paid periodically by the judgment debtor until satisfaction of a money judgment.
(10) “Judgment creditor” means a person in whose favor a money judgment was rendered, or any person succeeding to such rights.
(11) “Judgment debtor” means a person against whom a money judgment was rendered.
(12) “Levying officer” means a state marshal or constable acting within such marshal’s or constable’s geographical jurisdiction or in IV-D cases, any investigator employed by the Commissioner of Social Services.
(13) “Money judgment” means a judgment, order or decree of the court calling in whole or in part for the payment of a sum of money, other than a family support judgment. Money judgment includes any such money judgment of a small claims session of the Superior Court, any foreign money judgment filed with the Superior Court pursuant to the general statutes and in IV-D cases, overdue support in the amount of five hundred dollars or more accruing after the entry of an initial family support judgment.
(14) “Person” includes an individual, a partnership, an association, a limited liability company or a corporation.
(15) “Postjudgment procedure” means any procedure commenced after rendition of a money judgment, seeking or otherwise involving a discovery procedure, a placing of a lien on property, a modification or discharge of a lien, a property execution under § 52-356a, a turnover order, an installment payment order, a wage execution, a modification of a wage execution, a compliance order, a protective order or a determination of exemption rights.
(16) “Property” means any real or personal property in which the judgment debtor has an interest which he could assign or transfer, including (A) any present or future right or interest, whether or not vested or liquidated, (B) any debt, whether due or to become due, and (C) any cause of action which could be assigned or transferred.