Terms Used In Texas Insurance Code > Title 6 > Subtitle H - Other Entities

• Alcoholic beverage: has the meaning assigned by § 1. See Texas Penal Code 1.07
• Capital offense: A crime punishable by death.
• Controlled substance: has the meaning assigned by § 481. See Texas Penal Code 1.07
• Court: means and includes:
  (1) a county court in the exercise of its probate jurisdiction;
  (2) a court created by statute and authorized to exercise original probate jurisdiction; and
  (3) a district court exercising original probate jurisdiction in a contested matter. See Texas Estates Code 22.007
• Donee: The recipient of a gift.
• Estate: means a decedent's property, as that property:
  (1) exists originally and as the property changes in form by sale, reinvestment, or otherwise;
  (2) is augmented by any accretions and other additions to the property, including any property to be distributed to the decedent's representative by the trustee of a trust that terminates on the decedent's death, and substitutions for the property; and
  (3) is diminished by any decreases in or distributions from the property. See Texas Estates Code 22.012
• Grand jury: agreement providing that a lender will delay exercising its rights (in the case of a mortgage,
• Juror: A person who is on the jury.
• Law clerk: Assist judges with research and drafting of opinions.
• lien: include :
  (1) a deed of trust;
  (2) a vendor's lien, a mechanic's, materialman's, or laborer's lien, an attachment or garnishment lien, and a federal or state tax lien;
  (3) a chattel mortgage;
  (4) a judgment; and
  (5) a pledge by hypothecation. See Texas Estates Code 22.024
• Person: includes a natural person and a corporation. See Texas Estates Code 22.027
• Plea agreement: An arrangement between the prosecutor, the defense attorney, and the defendant in which the defendant agrees to plead guilty in exchange for special considerations. ^Source:
• Real property: includes estates and interests in land, whether corporeal or incorporeal or legal or equitable. See Texas Estates Code 22.030
• Reasonable belief: means a belief that would be held by an ordinary and prudent man in the same circumstances as the actor. See Texas Penal Code 1.07
• Right of survivorship: The ownership rights that result in the acquisition of title to property by reason of having survived other co-owners.
• Rule: includes regulation. See Texas Penal Code 1.07
• Ward: means a person for whom a guardian has been appointed. See Texas Estates Code 22.033