Terms Used In New York Laws > Labor > Article 24-A - New York State Workforce Investment Act

• Consumer lease: means a lease that a lessor regularly
  
  engaged in the business of leasing or selling makes to a
  
  lessee who is an individual and who takes under the lease
  
  primarily for personal, family, or household purposes. See N.Y. Uniform Commercial Code 2-A-103
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• 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.
• Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
• Goods: means all things that are movable at the time of
  
  identification to the lease contract, or are fixtures
  
  (Section 2-A-309), but the term does not include money,
  
  documents, instruments, accounts, chattel paper, general
  
  intangibles, or minerals or the like, including oil and gas,
  
  before extraction. See N.Y. Uniform Commercial Code 2-A-103
• Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
• Lease: means a transfer of the right to possession and use
  
  of goods for a term in return for consideration, but a sale,
  
  including a sale on approval or a sale or return, or
  
  retention or creation of a security interest is not a lease. See N.Y. Uniform Commercial Code 2-A-103
• 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}
• Lease contract: means the total legal obligation that
  
  results from the lease agreement as affected by this Article
  
  and any other applicable rules of law. See N.Y. Uniform Commercial Code 2-A-103
• Lessee: means a person who acquires the right to possession
  
  and use of goods under a lease. See N.Y. Uniform Commercial Code 2-A-103
• Lessor: means a person who transfers the right to possession
  
  and use of goods under a lease. See N.Y. Uniform Commercial Code 2-A-103
• 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.
• 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.
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.