Tex. Civ. Prac. & Rem. Code § 71.001

DEFINITIONS

Applied in 44 court decisions — leading case University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center v. Loutzenhiser (2004)

Most recently applied in Self v. City of Mansfield (March 2019)

Acts 1985, 69th Leg., ch. 959, Sec. 1, eff

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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.

Official source: Texas Constitution and Statutes. Reproduced from public-domain Texas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.