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2023 Texas Statutes
Civil Practice and Remedies Code
Title 4 - Liability in Tort
Chapter 71 - Wrongful Death; Survival; Injuries Occurring Out of State
Subchapter A. Wrongful Death
Section 71.001. Definitions
Universal Citation: TX Civ Prac & Rem Code § 71.001 (2023)
Sec. 71.001. DEFINITIONS. 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.
Acts 1985, 69th Leg., ch. 959, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1985. Amended by Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 822, Sec. 1.01, eff. Sept. 1, 2003.
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