In Re Transcontinental Realty Investors, Inc.

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• stating the general rule that \persons\ includes corporations and all other legal entities
• “In construing statutes, the word ‘person’ includes corporations and other legal entities unless the context indicates otherwise.” (citing TEX. GOV’T CODE § 311.005(2))
• when legislature amended the permissive venue statute to distinguish between a natural person’s “residence” and a business’s “principal office,” it did not intend to eliminate corporations and other legal entities from all statutes that refer to residence as a way to establish venue
• when legislature amended the permissive venue statute to distinguish between a natural person’s “residence” and a business’s “principal office,” it did not intend to eliminate corporations and other legal entities from all statutes that refer to residence as a way to establish venue

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