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49-801. Statutes; terms, defined.Unlessthe context is shown to intend otherwise, words and phrases in the statutesof Nebraska hereafter enacted are used in the following sense:(1)Acquire when used in connection with a grant of power or property right toany person shall include the purchase, grant, gift, devise, bequest, and obtainingby eminent domain;(2) Action shall include any proceeding inany court of this state;(3) Attorney shall mean attorney at law;(4)Company shall include any corporation, partnership, limited liability company,joint-stock company, joint venture, or association;(5) Domesticwhen applied to corporations shall mean all those created by authority ofthis state;(6) Federal shall refer to the United States;(7)Foreign when applied to corporations shall include all those created by authorityother than that of this state;(8) Grantee shall include everyperson to whom any estate or interest passes in or by any conveyance;(9)Grantor shall include every person from or by whom any estate or interestpasses in or by any conveyance;(10) Inhabitant shall be construedto mean a resident in the particular locality in reference to which that wordis used;(11) Land or real estate shall include lands, tenements,and hereditaments and all rights thereto and interest therein other than achattel interest;(12) Magistrate shall include judge of the countycourt and clerk magistrate;(13) Month shall mean calendar month;(14)Oath shall include affirmation in all cases in which an affirmation may besubstituted for an oath;(15) Peace officer shall include sheriffs,coroners, jailers, marshals, police officers, state highway patrol officers,members of the National Guard on active service by direction of the Governorduring periods of emergency, and all other persons with similar authorityto make arrests;(16) Person shall include bodies politic andcorporate, societies, communities, the public generally, individuals, partnerships,limited liability companies, joint-stock companies, and associations;(17)Personal estate shall include money, goods, chattels, claims, and evidencesof debt;(18) Process shall mean a summons, subpoena, or noticeto appear issued out of a court in the course of judicial proceedings;(19)Service animal shall have the same meaning as in 28 C.F.R. 36.104, as suchregulation existed on January 1, 2008;(20) State when appliedto different states of the United States shall be construed to extend to andinclude the District of Columbia and the several territories organized byCongress;(21) Sworn shall include affirmed in all cases in whichan affirmation may be substituted for an oath;(22) The UnitedStates shall include territories, outlying possessions, and the District ofColumbia;(23) Violate shall include failure to comply with;(24)Writ shall signify an order or citation in writing issued in the name of thestate out of a court or by a judicial officer; and(25) Year shallmean calendar year. SourceLaws 1947, c. 182, § 1, p. 601; Laws 1967, c. 175, § 2, p. 490; Laws 1972, LB 1032, § 255; Laws 1975, LB 481, § 30; Laws 1984, LB 13, § 83; Laws 1988, LB 1030, § 43; Laws 1993, LB 121, § 303; Laws 2008, LB806, § 12.AnnotationsInconjunction with section 25-2221 and subsection (13) of this section, a politicalsubdivision has until the end of the last day of the 6-month period aftera claimant has filed a tort claim upon which to make a final disposition ofsuch claim. Geddes v. York County, 273 Neb. 271, 729 N.W.2d 661 (2007).Unlessthe context is shown to intend otherwise, action includes any proceeding ina court and only final orders therein are bases for appeals. Grantham v. GeneralTelephone Co., 187 Neb. 647, 193 N.W.2d 449 (1972).Term personin statutes includes a corporation. Fosler v. Aden, 175 Neb. 535, 122 N.W.2d494 (1963).The word month is legislatively defined as calendarmonth. Ruan Transport Corp. v. Peake Inc., 163 Neb. 319, 79 N.W.2d 575 (1956).