DEFINITIONS
Applied in 17 court decisions — leading case Arsement v. Spinnaker Exploration Co. (2005)
Most recently applied in Lopez v. Ensign U.S. Southern Drilling, LLC (March 2017)
Added by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 136, Sec. 2, eff
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
In this chapter:
(1) "Claim" means a claim for damages caused by negligence, including a counterclaim, cross-claim, or third party claim.
(2) "Claimant" means a party making a claim subject to this chapter.
(3) "Property owner" means a person or entity that owns real property primarily used for commercial or business purposes.
Official source: Texas Constitution and Statutes. Reproduced from public-domain Texas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.