(a) In this chapter:
(1) “Acceptor” means a drawee who has accepted a draft.
(2) Reserved.
(3) “Consumer transaction” means a transaction in which an individual incurs an obligation primarily for personal, family, or household purposes.
(4) “Drawee” means a person ordered in a draft to make payment.
(5) “Drawer” means a person who signs or is identified in a draft as a person ordering payment.
(6) Reserved.
(7) “Maker” means a person who signs or is identified in a note as a person undertaking to pay.
(8) “Order” means a written instruction to pay money signed by the person giving the instruction. The instruction may be addressed to any person, including the person giving the instruction, or to one or more persons jointly or in the alternative but not in succession. An authorization to pay is not an order unless the person authorized to pay is also instructed to pay.
(9) “Ordinary care” in the case of a person engaged in business means observance of reasonable commercial standards, prevailing in the area in which the person is located, with respect to the business in which the person is engaged. In the case of a bank that takes an instrument for processing for collection or payment by automated means, reasonable commercial standards do not require the bank to examine the instrument if the failure to examine does not violate the bank’s prescribed procedures and the bank’s procedures do not vary unreasonably from general banking usage not disapproved by this chapter or Chapter 4.
(10) “Party” means a party to an instrument.
(11) “Principal obligor,” with respect to an instrument, means the accommodated party or any other party to the instrument against whom a secondary obligor has recourse under this chapter.
(12) “Promise” means a written undertaking to pay money signed by the person undertaking to pay. An acknowledgment of an obligation by the obligor is not a promise unless the obligor also undertakes to pay the obligation.
(13) “Prove” with respect to a fact means to meet the burden of establishing the fact (Section 1.201(b)(8)).
(14) Reserved.
(15) “Remitter” means a person who purchases an instrument from its issuer if the instrument is payable to an identified person other than the purchaser.
(16) “Remotely-created item” means an item that is created by a third party, other than the payor bank, under the purported authority of the drawer of the item for the purpose of charging the drawer’s account with a bank and that does not bear a handwritten signature purporting to be the signature of the drawer.
(17) “Secondary obligor,” with respect to an instrument, means (A) an indorser or an accommodation party, (B) a drawer having the obligation described in Section 3.414(d), or (C) any other party to the instrument that has recourse against another party to the instrument pursuant to Section 3.116(b).
(b) Other definitions applying to this chapter and the sections in which they appear are:

Terms Used In Texas Business and Commerce Code 3.103
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.
Person: includes  corporation, organization, government or governmental subdivision or agency, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, association, and any other legal entity. See Texas Government Code 311.005
Recourse: An arrangement in which a bank retains, in form or in substance, any credit risk directly or indirectly associated with an asset it has sold (in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles) that exceeds a pro rata share of the bank's claim on the asset. If a bank has no claim on an asset it has sold, then the retention of any credit risk is recourse.   Source: FDIC
Signature: includes  the mark of a person unable to write, and "subscribe" includes the making of such a mark. See Texas Government Code 312.011
Signed: includes  any symbol executed or adopted by a person with present intention to authenticate a writing. See Texas Government Code 311.005
Written: includes  any representation of words, letters, symbols, or figures. See Texas Government Code 311.005

(c)  The following definitions in other chapters apply to this chapter:

(d)  In addition, Chapter 1 contains general definitions and principles of construction and interpretation applicable throughout this chapter.