Terms Used In North Carolina General Statutes 44A-41

• Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
• Occupant: means a person, his sublessee, successor, or assign, entitled to the use of the storage space at a self-service storage facility under a rental agreement, to the exclusion of others. See North Carolina General Statutes 44A-40
• Owner: means the owner, operator, lessor, or sublessor of a self-service storage facility, his agent, or any other person authorized by him to manage the facility or to receive rent from an occupant under a rental agreement. See North Carolina General Statutes 44A-40
• Personal property: means movable property not affixed to land and includes, but is not limited to, goods, merchandise, household items, and watercraft. See North Carolina General Statutes 44A-40
• Personal property: All property that is not real property.
• property: shall include all property, both real and personal. See North Carolina General Statutes 12-3
• Self-service storage facility: means any real property designed and used for the purpose of renting or leasing individual storage space to occupants who are to have access to such for the purpose of storing and removing personal property. See North Carolina General Statutes 44A-40
• state: when applied to the different parts of the United States, shall be construed to extend to and include the District of Columbia and the several territories, so called; and the words "United States" shall be construed to include the said district and territories and all dependencies. See North Carolina General Statutes 12-3
• Uniform Commercial Code: A set of statutes enacted by the various states to provide consistency among the states' commercial laws. It includes negotiable instruments, sales, stock transfers, trust and warehouse receipts, and bills of lading. ^{Source: OCC}