(b) Action and special proceeding. The word "action" includes a
special proceeding; the words "plaintiff" and "defendant" include the
petitioner and the respondent, respectively, in a special proceeding;
and the words "summons" and "complaint" include the notice of petition
and the petition, respectively, in a special proceeding.
(c) Attorney. The word "attorney" includes a party prosecuting or
defending an action in person.
(d) Civil judicial proceeding. A "civil judicial proceeding" is a
prosecution, other than a criminal action, of an independent application
to a court for relief.
(e) Clerk. The word "clerk," as used in any provision respecting an
action or any proceedings therein, means the clerk of the court in which
the action is triable. In supreme and county court, the word "clerk"
shall mean the clerk of the county.
(f) Consumer credit transaction. The term "consumer credit
transaction" means a transaction wherein credit is extended to an
individual and the money, property, or service which is the subject of
the transaction is primarily for personal, family or household purposes.
(g) Court and judge. The word "court," as used in any provision
concerning a motion, order or special proceeding, includes a judge
thereof authorized to act out of court with respect to such motion,
order or special proceeding.
(h) Domestic and foreign corporation. A "domestic corporation" is a
corporation created by or under the laws of the state, or a corporation
located in the state and created by or under the laws of the United
States, or a corporation created by or pursuant to the laws in force in
the colony of New York before April nineteenth, seventeen hundred
seventy-five. Every other corporation is a "foreign corporation."
(h-1) Finance charge. The term "finance charge" means the cost of
consumer credit as a dollar amount, includes any charge payable directly
or indirectly by the consumer and imposed directly or indirectly by the
creditor as an incident to or a condition of the extension of credit,
and does not include any charge of a type payable in a comparable cash
transaction.
(i) Garnishee. A "garnishee" is a person who owes a debt to a judgment
debtor, or a person other than the judgment debtor who has property in
his possession or custody in which a judgment debtor has an interest.
(j) Infant, infancy. The word "infant", as used in this chapter, means
a person who has not attained the age of eighteen years. The word
"infancy" means the state of being an infant.
(k) Judgment. The word "judgment" means a final or interlocutory
judgment.
(l) Judgment creditor. A "judgment creditor" is a person in whose
favor a money judgment is entered or a person who becomes entitled to
enforce it.
(m) Judgment debtor. A "judgment debtor" is a person, other than a
defendant not summoned in the action, against whom a money judgment is
entered.
(n) Judicial hearing officer. A "judicial hearing officer" means a
person so designated pursuant to provisions of article twenty-two of the
judiciary law.
(o) Law. The word "law" means any statute or any civil practice rule.
(p) Matrimonial action. The term "matrimonial action" includes actions
for a separation, for an annulment or dissolution of a marriage, for a
divorce, for a declaration of the nullity of a void marriage, for a
declaration of the validity or nullity of a foreign judgment of divorce
and for a declaration of the validity or nullity of a marriage.
(q) Money judgment. A "money judgment" is a judgment, or any part
thereof, for a sum of money or directing the payment of a sum of money.
(q-1) Original creditor. The term "original creditor" means the entity
that owned a consumer credit account at the date of default giving rise
to a cause of action.
(r) Place where action triable. The place where an action is "triable"
means the place where the action is pending; or, if no action has been
commenced, any proper place of trial or any proper place to commence the
action; or, after entry of judgment, the place where the judgment was
entered.
(s) Real property. "Real property" includes chattels real.
* (s-1) The sheriff. The term "the sheriff", as used in this chapter,
means the county sheriff as defined in subdivision (a) of section
thirteen of article thirteen of the constitution and in counties in the
city of New York, the city sheriff as defined in section fifteen hundred
twenty-six of chapter fifty-eight of the New York city charter. For the
purposes of article fifty-two of this chapter relating to the
enforcement of money judgments and for the purposes of any provision of
law which in effect applies any such provision of article fifty-two of
this chapter, such term shall also mean any "city marshal" as defined in
article sixteen of the New York city civil court act, except that city
marshals shall have no power to levy upon or sell real property and city
marshals shall have no power of arrest.
* NB Repealed June 30, 2024
(t) Type size requirement. Whenever a requirement relating to size of
type is stated in point size, the type size requirement shall be deemed
met if the x-height of the type is a minimum of forty-five percent of
the specified point size. Each point shall be measured as .351
millimeter. The x-height size shall be measured as it appears on the
page. The x-height is the height of the lower case letters, exclusive of
ascenders or descenders.
(u) Verified pleading. A "verified pleading" may be utilized as an
affidavit whenever the latter is required.