Oregon Statutes 105.425 – Definitions for ORS 105.420 to 105.455
As used in ORS § 105.420 to 105.455:
Terms Used In Oregon Statutes 105.425
- Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
- Equitable: Pertaining to civil suits in "equity" rather than in "law." In English legal history, the courts of "law" could order the payment of damages and could afford no other remedy. See damages. A separate court of "equity" could order someone to do something or to cease to do something. See, e.g., injunction. In American jurisprudence, the federal courts have both legal and equitable power, but the distinction is still an important one. For example, a trial by jury is normally available in "law" cases but not in "equity" cases. Source: U.S. Courts
- Foreclosure: A legal process in which property that is collateral or security for a loan may be sold to help repay the loan when the loan is in default. Source: OCC
- Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
- Person: includes individuals, corporations, associations, firms, partnerships, limited liability companies and joint stock companies. See Oregon Statutes 174.100
- Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
(1) ‘Abatement’ means the removal or correction, including by demolition, of any condition at a property that violates the provisions of any duly enacted building or housing code or the making of other improvements or corrections needed to rehabilitate the property or structure, but does not include the closing or physical securing of the structure.
(2) ‘Building code’ or ‘housing code’ means any law, ordinance or governmental regulation concerning habitability or the construction, maintenance, operation, occupancy, use or appearance of any property.
(3) ‘Interested party’ means any person or entity that possesses any legal or equitable interest of record in the property, including the owner, the holder of any lien or encumbrance of record on the property and any person who must or may be made a defendant in a foreclosure suit under ORS § 88.030.
(4) ‘Property’ means real property and all improvements thereon including edifices, structures, buildings, unit or part thereof used or intended to be used for residential purposes including single-family, duplex, multifamily structures and mixed-use structures which have one or more residential units. [1989 c.649 § 3; 2019 c.191 § 1]