Texas Civil Practice and Remedies Code 140A.051 – Definitions
Terms Used In Texas Civil Practice and Remedies Code 140A.051
- Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
- Deposition: An oral statement made before an officer authorized by law to administer oaths. Such statements are often taken to examine potential witnesses, to obtain discovery, or to be used later in trial.
- Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
- 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
- Property: means real and personal property. See Texas Government Code 311.005
In this subchapter:
(1) “Civil investigative demand” means any demand issued by the attorney general under this subchapter.
(2) “Documentary material” means the original or a copy of any paper, contract, agreement, book, booklet, brochure, pamphlet, catalog, magazine, notice, announcement, circular, bulletin, instruction, minutes, agenda, study, analysis, report, graph, map, chart, table, schedule, note, letter, telegram, telephone recordings, or data compilations stored in or accessible through computer or other information retrieval systems, together with instructions and all other materials necessary to use or interpret the data compilations, and any product of discovery.
(3) “Person” has the meaning assigned by § 311.005, Government Code.
(4) “Product of discovery” means:
(A) the original or a copy of a deposition, interrogatory, document, thing, result of inspection of land or other property, examination, or admission that is obtained by any method of discovery in a judicial or administrative proceeding of an adversarial nature;
(B) a digest, analysis, selection, compilation, or derivation of any item listed in Paragraph (A); and
(C) an index, instruction, or other aid or means of access to any item listed in Paragraph (A).
(5) “Racketeering investigation” means any inquiry conducted by the attorney general for the purpose of ascertaining whether any person is or has been engaged in or is actively preparing to engage in activities that may constitute a racketeering violation.
(6) “Racketeering violation” means any act or omission in violation of any of the prohibitions in Section 140A.002.