Terms Used In Kentucky Statutes > Chapter 517 - Business and Commercial Frauds

• Adulterated: means varying from the standard of composition or quality prescribed by statute or lawfully promulgated administrative regulation or, if none, as set by established commercial usage. See Kentucky Statutes 517.010
• Business record: means any writing or article kept or maintained by an enterprise for the purpose of evidencing or reflecting its condition or activity. See Kentucky Statutes 517.010
• Company: may extend and be applied to any corporation, company, person, partnership, joint stock company, or association. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
• 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.
• Corporation: may extend and be applied to any corporation, company, partnership, joint stock company, or association. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Enterprise: means any entity of one (1) or more persons, corporate or otherwise, public or private, engaged in business, commercial, professional, industrial, eleemosynary, social, political, or governmental activity. See Kentucky Statutes 517.010
• Executor: A male person named in a will to carry out the decedent
• Federal: refers to the United States. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
• Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
• Fiduciary: means a trustee, guardian, executor, administrator, receiver, and any person carrying on fiduciary functions on behalf of a corporation or other organization which is a fiduciary. See Kentucky Statutes 517.010
• Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
• Guardian: A person legally empowered and charged with the duty of taking care of and managing the property of another person who because of age, intellect, or health, is incapable of managing his (her) own affairs.
• Mislabeled: means :
  (a) Varying from the standard of truth or disclosure in labeling prescribed by statute or lawfully promulgated administrative regulation or, if none, as set by established commercial usage. See Kentucky Statutes 517.010
• Owner: when applied to any animal, means any person having a property interest in such animal. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
• Sham or front company: means any business established or in existence which falsely represents that business to be a minority business enterprise, or disadvantaged business enterprise, as defined in 79 C. See Kentucky Statutes 517.010
• State: when applied to a part of the United States, includes territories, outlying possessions, and the District of Columbia. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.