Terms Used In New York Laws > Uniform Commercial Code > Article 2-A > Part 3 - Effect of Lease Contract

• Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
• Commercial goods transportation contractor: includes a general commercial goods transportation contractor or a commercial goods transportation subcontractor. See N.Y. Labor Law 862-A
• Commercial goods transportation services: means the transportation of goods for compensation by a driver who possesses a state-issued driver's license, transports goods in the state of New York, and operates a commercial motor vehicle as defined in subdivision four-a of § 2 of the transportation law. See N.Y. Labor Law 862-A
• Commissioner: means the commissioner of labor. See N.Y. Labor Law 861-B
• Commissioner: means the commissioner of labor. See N.Y. Labor Law 862-A
• Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
• 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.
• Contractor: includes a general contractor and a subcontractor. See N.Y. Labor Law 861-B
• Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
• 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.
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Department: means the department of labor. See N.Y. Labor Law 862-A
• Employer: means any commercial goods transportation contractor which compensates a person classified as an employee under section eight hundred sixty-two-b of this article. See N.Y. Labor Law 862-A
• Equitable: Pertaining to civil suits in "equity" rather than in "law." In English legal history, the courts of "law" could order the payment of damages and could afford no other remedy. See damages. A separate court of "equity" could order someone to do something or to cease to do something. See, e.g., injunction. In American jurisprudence, the federal courts have both legal and equitable power, but the distinction is still an important one. For example, a trial by jury is normally available in "law" cases but not in "equity" cases. ^{Source: U.S. Courts}
• 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.
• Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
• 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
• Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
• 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 agreement: means the bargain, with respect to the
  
  lease, of the lessor and the lessee in fact as found in their
  
  language or by implication from other circumstances including
  
  course of dealing or usage of trade or course of performance
  
  as provided in this Article. See N.Y. Uniform Commercial Code 2-A-103
• 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
• Leasehold interest: means the interest of the lessor or the
  
  lessee under a lease contract. 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
• Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
• Lien: means a charge against or interest in goods to secure
  
  payment of a debt or performance of an obligation, but the
  
  term does not include a security interest. See N.Y. Uniform Commercial Code 2-A-103
• Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
• Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
• 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.
• Purchase: includes taking by sale, lease, mortgage, security
  
  interest, pledge, gift, or any other voluntary transaction
  
  creating an interest in goods. See N.Y. Uniform Commercial Code 2-A-103
• Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• Sublease: means a lease of goods the right to possession and
  
  use of which was acquired by the lessor as a lessee under an
  
  existing lease. See N.Y. Uniform Commercial Code 2-A-103
• Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.