Tennessee Code Title 48. Corporations and Associations § 48-61-101

(1) “Converted entity” means the domestic corporation or domestic unincorporated entity that adopts a plan of entity conversion or the foreign unincorporated entity converting to a domestic corporation;

(2) “Eligible entity” means a domestic or foreign unincorporated entity or a domestic or foreign business corporation;

(3) “Eligible interests” means interests or shares;

(4) “Filing entity” means an unincorporated entity that is of a type that is created by filing a public organic document;

(5) “Foreign business corporation” means a corporation for-profit incorporated under an organic law other than the laws of this state;

(6) “Foreign unincorporated entity” means an unincorporated entity whose internal affairs are governed by an organic law other than the laws of this state;

(7) “Interest” means either or both of the following rights under the organic law of an unincorporated entity:

(8) “Interest holder” means a person who holds of record an interest;

(9) “Membership” means the rights of a member in a domestic or foreign nonprofit corporation and includes the rights and obligations a member has pursuant to a corporation's charter, bylaws and chapters 51-68 of this title;

(10) “Party to a merger or membership exchange” means any domestic or foreign nonprofit corporation, or eligible entity that will:

(11) “Survivor” means the corporation or unincorporated entity that is in existence immediately after consummation of a merger or entity conversion pursuant to this chapter; and

(12) “Voting memberships” means memberships that entitle their holders to vote unconditionally in the election of directors.