Tex. Civ. Prac. & Rem. Code § 71.001 : CIVIL PRACTICE AND REMEDIES CODE — LIABILITY IN TORT — WRONGFUL DEATH; SURVIVAL; INJURIES OCCURRING OUT OF STATE — WRONGFUL DEATH — 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.

Tex. Civ. Prac. and Rem. Code § 71.001

Amended by Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 822, Sec. 1.01, eff. 9/1/2003.
Acts 1985, 69th Leg., ch. 959, Sec. 1, eff. 9/1/1985.
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