Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes > Title 34 > Chapter 2 > Part I - General Provisions

• 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.
• Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
• Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
• Attorney-in-fact: A person who, acting as an agent, is given written authorization by another person to transact business for him (her) out of court.
• Consumer product: means any tangible personal property that is distributed in commerce and used for personal, family, or household purposes, including any property intended to be attached to or installed in any real property without regard to whether it is attached or installed. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:3261
• Department: means the Department of Children and Family Services or the Louisiana Department of Health. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 46:1
• High-volume third-party seller: means a participant on an online marketplace's platform who is a third-party seller and who has entered into two hundred or more discrete sales or transactions of new or unused consumer products in any twelve-month period during the previous twenty-four months, which result in an aggregate total of five thousand dollars or more in total gross revenue. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:3261
• Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
• Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). ^{Source: OCC}
• Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
• Online marketplace: means any person or entity that operates a consumer-directed electronically based or accessed platform that meets all of the following criteria:

              (a) Has features that allow for, facilitate, or enable third-party sellers to engage in the sale, purchase, payment, storage, shipping, or delivery of a consumer product in this state. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:3261

• past due support: means the amount of a delinquency, determined under a court order under state law for support and maintenance of a child, or of a child and the parent with whom the child is living. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 46:236.1.2
• Personal property: All property that is not real property.
• Plaintiff: The person who files the complaint in a civil lawsuit.
• Probation: A sentencing alternative to imprisonment in which the court releases convicted defendants under supervision as long as certain conditions are observed.
• Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
• Recipient: means the person who has received assistance under this Title. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 46:1
• Secretary: means the secretary of the Department of Children and Family Services or the Louisiana Department of Health. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 46:1
• Seller: means a person who sells, offers to sell, or contracts to sell a consumer product through an online marketplace platform. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:3261
• Third-party seller: means any seller, independent of an online marketplace, who sells, offers to sell, or contracts to sell a consumer product in this state through an online marketplace. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:3261
• Verify: means to confirm information provided to an online marketplace pursuant to this Chapter, which may include the use of one or more methods that enable the online marketplace to reliably determine that any information and documents provided are valid, corresponding to the seller or an individual acting on the seller's behalf, not misappropriated, and not falsified. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:3261