Terms Used In New York Laws > Vehicle and Traffic > Title 2 > Article 3 - Exemption of Non-resident Owners and Operators

• Affidavit: A written statement of facts confirmed by the oath of the party making it, before a notary or officer having authority to administer oaths.
• Appellate: About appeals; an appellate court has the power to review the judgement of another lower court or tribunal.
• Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
• 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.
• Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
• Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
• Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
• Executor: A male person named in a will to carry out the decedent
• Foreign professional service corporation: has the meaning given to it in subdivision (d) of § 1525 of the business corporation law. See N.Y. Limited Liability Company Law 1201
• Foreign professional service limited liability company: has the meaning given to it in subdivision (a) of section thirteen hundred one of this chapter. See N.Y. Limited Liability Company Law 1201
• 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.
• 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.
• Plaintiff: The person who files the complaint in a civil lawsuit.
• Profession: includes any practice as an attorney and counselor-at-law, or as a licensed physician, and those professions designated in title eight of the education law. See N.Y. Limited Liability Company Law 1201
• Professional: means an individual duly authorized to practice a profession, a professional service corporation, a professional service limited liability company, a foreign professional service limited liability company, a registered limited liability partnership, a foreign limited liability partnership, a foreign professional service corporation or a professional partnership. See N.Y. Limited Liability Company Law 1201
• Professional partnership: means (1) a partnership without limited partners each of whose partners is a professional authorized by law to render a professional service within this state, (2) a partnership without limited partners each of whose partners is a professional, at least one of whom is authorized by law to render a professional service within this state or (3) a partnership without limited partners authorized by, or holding a license, certificate, registration or permit issued by the licensing authority pursuant to the education law to render a professional service within this state. See N.Y. Limited Liability Company Law 1201
• Professional service: means any type of service to the public that may be lawfully rendered by a member of a profession within the purview of his or her profession. See N.Y. Limited Liability Company Law 1201
• Professional service corporation: means (i) a corporation organized under Article 15 of the business corporation law and (ii) any other corporation organized under the business corporation law or under any other predecessor statute, which is authorized by, or holds a license, certificate, registration or permit issued by, the licensing authority pursuant to the education law to render professional services within this state. See N.Y. Limited Liability Company Law 1201
• Professional service limited liability company: means a limited liability company organized under this article. See N.Y. Limited Liability Company Law 1201
• Service of process: The service of writs or summonses to the appropriate party.
• Summons: Another word for subpoena used by the criminal justice system.