As used in sections 57-301 to 57-304, unless the context otherwise requires:

Terms Used In Nebraska Statutes 57-301

  • Bankruptcy: Refers to statutes and judicial proceedings involving persons or businesses that cannot pay their debts and seek the assistance of the court in getting a fresh start. Under the protection of the bankruptcy court, debtors may discharge their debts, perhaps by paying a portion of each debt. Bankruptcy judges preside over these proceedings.
  • Person: shall include bodies politic and corporate, societies, communities, the public generally, individuals, partnerships, limited liability companies, joint-stock companies, and associations. See Nebraska Statutes 49-801

(1) The term person includes one or more individuals, partnerships, limited liability companies, associations, corporations, legal representatives, trustees, and receivers in bankruptcy and reorganization of any group whether or not it is incorporated; and

(2) The term oil field equipment means oil field supplies, oil field machinery, materials, heavy machinery, buildings, tubing, tanks, boilers, engines, casing, wire lines, sucker rods, oil pipelines, gas pipelines, and all other material used in digging, drilling, torpedoing, operating, completing, maintaining, or repairing any such oil or gas wells or oil pipelines or gas pipelines, or in the construction or dismantling of refineries, casing-head gasoline plants, and carbon black plants.

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