Terms Used In Oregon Statutes > Chapter 199 - Local Government Boundary Commissions; City-County Consolidation

• Action: means any proceeding commenced in a court in which the court may render a judgment. See Oregon Statutes 18.005
• Affirmed: In the practice of the appellate courts, the decree or order is declared valid and will stand as rendered in the lower court.
• Anniversary: means the day each year that is exactly one or more years after:

  (a) The date on which the Secretary of State files the articles of incorporation for a domestic corporation. See Oregon Statutes 60.001

• Appraisal: A determination of property value.
• Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
• Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.
• Articles: means articles of incorporation, articles of conversion or articles of merger. See Oregon Statutes 62.015
• Articles of incorporation: means the articles described in ORS § 60. See Oregon Statutes 60.001
• Assessment: means any charge imposed or levied by the association of unit owners on or against a unit owner or unit pursuant to provisions of the declaration or the bylaws of the condominium or provisions of this chapter. See Oregon Statutes 100.005
• association: means the association provided for under ORS § 100. See Oregon Statutes 100.005
• Beef: includes veal. See Oregon Statutes 577.110
• Board: means board of directors. See Oregon Statutes 62.015
• Child support award: means a money award or agency order that requires the payment of child support and that is entered under ORS § 25. See Oregon Statutes 18.005
• Civil action: means any action that is not a criminal action. See Oregon Statutes 18.005
• Commission: means the Oregon Wheat Commission. See Oregon Statutes 578.010
• Commissioner: means the Real Estate Commissioner. See Oregon Statutes 100.005
• Common elements: means the general common elements and the limited common elements. See Oregon Statutes 100.005
• Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
• Cooperative: means a cooperative corporation that is subject to the provisions of this chapter. See Oregon Statutes 62.015
• Corporation: means a corporation that is not a cooperative. See Oregon Statutes 62.015
• Council: means the Oregon Beef Council. See Oregon Statutes 577.110
• County court: includes board of county commissioners. See Oregon Statutes 174.100
• Criminal action: has the meaning given in ORS § 131. See Oregon Statutes 18.005
• Decedent: A deceased person.
• Declarant: means a person who records a declaration under ORS § 100. See Oregon Statutes 100.005
• Declaration: means the instrument described in ORS § 100. See Oregon Statutes 100.005
• Delivery: means a method of delivery that is used in conventional commercial practice and includes hand delivery, mail delivery, commercial delivery and electronic transmission. See Oregon Statutes 62.015
• Department: means the State Department of Agriculture. See Oregon Statutes 577.110
• Director: means the Director of Agriculture. See Oregon Statutes 577.110
• Director: means the Director of Agriculture. See Oregon Statutes 578.010
• Dismissal: The dropping of a case by the judge without further consideration or hearing. ^Source:
• Distribution: means a direct or indirect transfer of money or other property, except of a corporation's own shares, or a corporation's incurrence of indebtedness to or for the benefit of the corporation's shareholders in respect of any of the corporation's shares, in the form of a declaration or payment of a dividend, a purchase, redemption or other acquisition of shares, a distribution of indebtedness, or otherwise. See Oregon Statutes 60.001
• Docket: A log containing brief entries of court proceedings.
• Electronic signature: has the meaning given that term in ORS § 84. See Oregon Statutes 62.015
• Electronic transmission: means a method of communicating information that:

  (a) Does not directly involve a transfer of a physical object that embodies the communication; and

  (b) Enables the recipient to store, retrieve and reproduce the information. See Oregon Statutes 62.015

• Emergency: means a human created or natural event or circumstance that causes or threatens widespread loss of life, injury to person or property, human suffering or financial loss, including but not limited to:

  (a) Fire, wildfire, explosion, flood, severe weather, landslides or mud slides, drought, earthquake, volcanic activity, tsunamis or other oceanic phenomena, spills or releases of oil or hazardous material as defined in ORS § 466. See Oregon Statutes 401.025

• Emergency service agency: means an organization within a local government that performs essential services for the public's benefit before, during or after an emergency, such as law enforcement, fire control, health, medical and sanitation services, public works and engineering, public information and communications. See Oregon Statutes 401.025
• Emergency services: means activities engaged in by state and local government agencies to prepare for an emergency and to prevent, minimize, respond to or recover from an emergency, including but not limited to coordination, preparedness planning, training, interagency liaison, fire fighting, oil or hazardous material spill or release cleanup as defined in ORS § 466. See Oregon Statutes 401.025
• Execution: means enforcement of the money award portion of a judgment or enforcement of a judgment requiring delivery of the possession or sale of specific real or personal property, by means of writs of execution, writs of garnishment and other statutory or common law writs or remedies that may be available under the law. See Oregon Statutes 18.005
• Exhibits: means exhibits offered and received or rejected in the trial court. See Oregon Statutes 19.005
• Fee simple: Absolute title to property with no limitations or restrictions regarding the person who may inherit it.
• Foreign cooperative: means a cooperative corporation that is organized under laws other than the laws of this state. See Oregon Statutes 62.015
• Foreign corporation: means a corporation for profit that is incorporated under laws other than the laws of the state. See Oregon Statutes 60.001
• Grain: means barley, canola, corn, flaxseed, mustard, oats, rye, soybeans, grain sorghum, triticale, wheat and any other cereal grain for which standards are established or followed by the State Department of Agriculture. See Oregon Statutes 578.010
• Indictment: The formal charge issued by a grand jury stating that there is enough evidence that the defendant committed the crime to justify having a trial; it is used primarily for felonies.
• Interrogatories: Written questions asked by one party of an opposing party, who must answer them in writing under oath; a discovery device in a lawsuit.
• Joint committee: Committees including membership from both houses of teh legislature. Joint committees are usually established with narrow jurisdictions and normally lack authority to report legislation.
• Joint resolution: A legislative measure which requires the approval of both chambers.
• Judgment: means a judgment or appealable order, as provided in ORS § 19. See Oregon Statutes 19.005
• Judgment document: means a writing in the form provided by ORS § 18. See Oregon Statutes 18.005
• judicial department: means the Supreme Court, the Court of Appeals, the Oregon Tax Court, the circuit courts and all administrative divisions of those courts, whether denominated as boards, commissions, committees or departments or by any other designation. See Oregon Statutes 174.113
• Jury instructions: A judge's directions to the jury before it begins deliberations regarding the factual questions it must answer and the legal rules that it must apply. ^{Source: U.S. Courts}
• Leasehold: means the interest of a person, firm or corporation that is the lessee under a lease from the owner in fee and that files a declaration creating a condominium under ORS § 100. See Oregon Statutes 100.005
• Local government: has the meaning given that term in ORS § 174. See Oregon Statutes 401.025
• Major disaster: means any event defined as a 'major disaster' under 42 U. See Oregon Statutes 401.025
• Membership stock: means any class of stock, continuous ownership of which is required for membership in a cooperative. See Oregon Statutes 62.015
• Money award: means a judgment or portion of a judgment that requires the payment of money. See Oregon Statutes 18.005
• Notice of appeal: includes a notice of cross-appeal. See Oregon Statutes 19.005
• Person: means an individual, corporation, association, firm, partnership, joint stock company, cooperative or foreign cooperative. See Oregon Statutes 62.015
• Pleadings: Written statements of the parties in a civil case of their positions. In the federal courts, the principal pleadings are the complaint and the answer.
• Principal office: means the physical street address of an office, in or out of this state, where the principal executive offices of a domestic or foreign corporation are located and designated in the annual report or in the application for authority to transact business in this state. See Oregon Statutes 60.001
• Probation: A sentencing alternative to imprisonment in which the court releases convicted defendants under supervision as long as certain conditions are observed.
• Proceeding: means a civil, criminal, administrative or investigatory action. See Oregon Statutes 60.001
• Producer: means any person who raises, breeds or grows cattle or calves for beef or dairy production. See Oregon Statutes 577.110
• Prosecute: To charge someone with a crime. A prosecutor tries a criminal case on behalf of the government.
• record of the case: means the trial court file and any transcript, narrative statement and exhibits. See Oregon Statutes 19.005
• Recorded: means to cause to be recorded by the county officer in the real property records for each county in which the condominium is located. See Oregon Statutes 100.005
• Recording officer: means the county officer charged with the duty of filing and recording deeds and mortgages or any other instruments or documents affecting the title to real property. See Oregon Statutes 100.005
• Remainder: An interest in property that takes effect in the future at a specified time or after the occurrence of some event, such as the death of a life tenant.
• Reporter: Makes a record of court proceedings and prepares a transcript, and also publishes the court's opinions or decisions (in the courts of appeals).
• Sale: includes any pledge or mortgage of grain, after harvest, to any person, public or private. See Oregon Statutes 578.010
• Service of process: The service of writs or summonses to the appropriate party.
• Shareholder: means a person in whose name a share is registered in the records of a corporation or the beneficial owner of a share to the extent of the rights granted by a nominee certificate on file with a corporation. See Oregon Statutes 60.001
• Signature: means a manual, facsimile, conformed or electronic signature. See Oregon Statutes 62.015
• state government: means the executive department, the judicial department and the legislative department. See Oregon Statutes 174.111
• Support arrearage lien: means a lien that attaches to real property under the provisions of ORS § 18. See Oregon Statutes 18.005
• Support award: means a money award or agency order that requires the payment of child or spousal support. See Oregon Statutes 18.005
• Transcript: means the transcript of the court reporter's report as provided in ORS § 8. See Oregon Statutes 19.005
• Transcript: A written, word-for-word record of what was said, either in a proceeding such as a trial or during some other conversation, as in a transcript of a hearing or oral deposition.
• Trial court file: means all the original papers filed in the trial court whether before or after judgment, including but not limited to the summons and proof of service thereof, pleadings, motions, affidavits, depositions, stipulations, orders, jury instructions, the judgment, the notice of appeal and the undertaking on appeal. See Oregon Statutes 19.005
• Undertaking on appeal: includes undertakings for costs and supersedeas undertakings. See Oregon Statutes 19.005