Terms Used In New York Laws > Civil Practice Law and Rules > Article 14-A - Damage Actions: Effect of Contributory Negligence and Assumption of Risk

• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Decedent: A deceased person.
• Docket: A log containing brief entries of court proceedings.
• Donee: The recipient of a gift.
• Executor: A male person named in a will to carry out the decedent
• Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
• Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
• Hemp: means the plant Cannabis sativa L. See N.Y. Agriculture and Markets Law 505
• Indictment: The formal charge issued by a grand jury stating that there is enough evidence that the defendant committed the crime to justify having a trial; it is used primarily for felonies.
• Institution of higher education: means :
  
  (a) any of the colleges and universities described in subdivision three of § 352 of the education law;
  
  (b) a college established and operated pursuant to the provisions of Article one hundred twenty-six of the education law, and providing two-year or four-year post-secondary programs in general and technical educational subjects and receiving financial assistance from the state;
  
  (c) the city university of New York, as defined in subdivision two of § 6202 of the education law; and
  
  (d) a not-for-profit two or four-year university or college given the power to confer associate, baccalaureate or higher degrees in this state by the legislature or by the regents under Article five of the education law. See N.Y. Agriculture and Markets Law 505
• Legatee: A beneficiary of a decedent
• License: means a license, permit or registration issued pursuant to this article. See N.Y. Agriculture and Markets Law 505
• Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
• 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.
• Personal property: All property that is not real property.
• Pleadings: Written statements of the parties in a civil case of their positions. In the federal courts, the principal pleadings are the complaint and the answer.
• Processing of hemp in connection with its growing and cultivation: means the growing, cultivation, cloning, harvesting, drying, curing, grinding and trimming of hemp plants. See N.Y. Agriculture and Markets Law 505
• Remainder: An interest in property that takes effect in the future at a specified time or after the occurrence of some event, such as the death of a life tenant.
• Testify: Answer questions in court.
• Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
• Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.