[§634J-1] Definitions. Unless otherwise clear from the context, as used in this chapter:
"Defendant" means a person (including a corporation, association, partnership, firm, or governmental entity) against whom litigation is brought or maintained, or sought to be brought or maintained.
"In propria persona" means on the person's own behalf acting as plaintiff.
"Litigation" means any civil action or proceeding, commenced, maintained, or pending in any state or federal court of record.
"Plaintiff" means the person who commences, institutes or maintains litigation or causes it to be commenced, instituted, or maintained, including an attorney at law acting on the attorney's own behalf.
"Security" means an undertaking to assure payment, to the party for whose benefit the undertaking is required to be furnished, of the party's reasonable expenses, including attorney's fees, and not limited to taxable costs incurred in or in connection with a litigation instituted, caused to be instituted, or maintained or caused to be maintained by a vexatious litigant.
"Vexatious litigant" means a plaintiff who does any of the following: