Terms Used In North Dakota Code > Chapter 62.1-01 - Definitions - General Provisions

• Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.
• Chambers: A judge's office.
• Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Dangerous weapon: includes any switchblade or gravity knife, machete, scimitar, stiletto, sword, dagger, or knife with a blade of five inches [12. See North Dakota Code 62.1-01-01
• Handgun: means any firearm that is not designed to be fired from the shoulder, which has a barrel less than sixteen inches [40. See North Dakota Code 62.1-01-01
• Individual: means a human being. See North Dakota Code 1-01-49
• 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.
• Law enforcement officer: means :

  a. See North Dakota Code 62.1-01-01

• Person: means an individual, organization, government, political subdivision, or government agency or instrumentality. See North Dakota Code 1-01-49
• Possession: means an individual has:

  a. See North Dakota Code 62.1-01-01

• Probable cause: A reasonable ground for belief that the offender violated a specific law.
• Property: includes property, real and personal. See North Dakota Code 1-01-49
• Rifle: means any firearm designed or redesigned, made or remade, and intended to be fired from the shoulder and using the energy of the explosive in a fixed metallic cartridge to fire only a single projectile through a rifled bore for each pull of the trigger. See North Dakota Code 62.1-01-01
• Rule: includes regulation. See North Dakota Code 1-01-49
• Sex: means the biological state of being male or female, based on the individual's nonambiguous sex organs, chromosomes, or endogenous hormone profiles at birth. See North Dakota Code 1-01-49
• Shotgun: means a firearm designed or redesigned, made or remade, and intended to be fired with one hand below or behind and one hand in front of the breach, which uses the energy of the explosive in a fixed shotgun shell to fire through a smooth or a rifled bore either a number of ball shot or a single projectile for each single pull of the trigger. See North Dakota Code 62.1-01-01
• State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See North Dakota Code 1-01-49
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• Unloaded: means the chamber of the firearm does not contain a loaded shell. See North Dakota Code 62.1-01-01
• weapon: means any device that expels or is readily capable of expelling a projectile by the action of an explosive and includes any such device, loaded or unloaded, commonly referred to as a pistol, revolver, rifle, gun, machine gun, shotgun, bazooka, or cannon. See North Dakota Code 62.1-01-01
• written: include "typewriting" and "typewritten" and "printing" and "printed" except in the case of signatures and when the words are used by way of contrast to typewriting and printing. See North Dakota Code 1-01-37
• year: means twelve consecutive months. See North Dakota Code 1-01-33