Terms Used In Texas Civil Practice and Remedies Code 71.001

  • 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.
  • Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.

In this subchapter:
(1) “Corporation” means a municipal, private, public, or quasi-public corporation other than a county or a common or independent school district.
(2) “Person” means an individual, association of individuals, joint-stock company, or corporation or a trustee or receiver of an individual, association of individuals, joint-stock company, or corporation.
(3) “Death” includes, for an individual who is an unborn child, the failure to be born alive.
(4) “Individual” includes an unborn child at every stage of gestation from fertilization until birth.