In this Act:
        (1) “Mediation” means a process in which a mediator
    
facilitates communication and negotiation between parties to assist them in reaching a voluntary agreement regarding their dispute.
        (2) “Mediation communication” means a statement,
    
whether oral or in a record or verbal or nonverbal, that occurs during a mediation or is made for purposes of considering, conducting, participating in, initiating, continuing, or reconvening a mediation or retaining a mediator.
        (3) “Mediator” means an individual who conducts a
    
mediation.
        (4) “Nonparty participant” means a person, other than
    
a party or mediator, that participates in a mediation.
        (5) “Mediation party” means a person that
    
participates in a mediation and whose agreement is necessary to resolve the dispute.
        (6) “Person” means an individual, corporation,
    
business trust, estate, trust, partnership, limited liability company, association, joint venture, government, governmental subdivision, agency, or instrumentality, public corporation, or any other legal or commercial entity.
        (7) “Proceeding” means:

Terms Used In Illinois Compiled Statutes 710 ILCS 35/2

  • 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.
  • individual: shall include every infant member of the species homo sapiens who is born alive at any stage of development. See Illinois Compiled Statutes 5 ILCS 70/1.36
  • 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.

            (A) a judicial, administrative, arbitral, or
        
other adjudicative process, including related pre-hearing and post-hearing motions, conferences, and discovery; or
            (B) a legislative hearing or similar process.
        (8) “Record” means information that is inscribed on a
    
tangible medium or that is stored in an electronic or other medium and is retrievable in perceivable form.
        (9) “Sign” means:
            (A) to execute or adopt a tangible symbol with
        
the present intent to authenticate a record; or
            (B) to attach or logically associate an
        
electronic symbol, sound, or process to or with a record with the present intent to authenticate a record.
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