<div class="chunk-title">Sec. 53-102. - Definitions.</div>
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               The following words, terms and phrases, when used in this article, shall have the
               meanings ascribed to them in this section, except where the context clearly indicates
               a different meaning:
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               <span class="ital">Owner</span> means a person holding the legal title to a vehicle, or if a vehicle is the subject
               of a chattel mortgage or an agreement for the conditional sale or lease or other like
               agreement, with the right of purchase upon performance of the conditions stated in
               the agreement, and with the immediate right of possession vested in the mortgagor,
               conditional vendee or lessee, the mortgagor, conditional vendee or lessee shall be
               deemed the owner for the purpose of this article.
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               <span class="ital">Vehicle</span> means every device in, upon or by which any person or property is or may be transported
               or drawn upon a highway.
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               (Code 1978, Â§ 12-53)
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               Definitions generally, <a href="" data-chunk-id="COOR_CH1GEPR_S1-2DERUCO" class="section-link" data-product-id="11337">Â§ 1-2</a>.
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