§ 481.010.Generally

This is a housekeeping section, but a necessary one. Title 6.5 runs from § 481.010 through the end of the attachment statutes, and it uses a set of specialized terms — account debtor, chattel paper, security interest, and so on — borrowed largely from the Commercial Code’s secured-transactions article. Rather than repeat those definitions every time a later section uses one of these words, § 481.010 sets Chapter 1 up as the glossary for the whole title.

The opening clause, "unless the provision or context otherwise requires," keeps the glossary from becoming a straitjacket. If a later section plainly uses a term in an ordinary sense, or the surrounding text makes some other reading necessary, that section controls. In practice, though, courts and practitioners read the Chapter 1 definitions as governing unless a specific section says otherwise.