As used in this chapter:
(a) "Consumer transaction" means a sale, lease, assignment, award by chance or other transfer of an item of goods, a service, franchise or an intangible (except those transactions between persons, defined in Ohio R.C. 4905.03 and 5725.01, and their customers, or between attorneys or physicians and their clients or patients) to an individual for purposes that are primarily personal, family or household, or solicitation to supply any of these things.
(b) "Person" includes an individual, corporation, government, governmental subdivision or agency, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, association or cooperative or any other legal entity.
(c) "Supplier" means a seller, lessor, assignor or franchisor who is engaged in the business of effecting or soliciting consumer transactions, whether or not he deals directly with the consumer.
(d) "Consumer" means a person who engages in a consumer transaction with a supplier.
(e) "Knowledge" means actual awareness, but such actual awareness may be inferred where objective manifestations indicate that the individual involved acted with such awareness.
(1952 Code § 26-7-1)