Terms Used In Oregon Statutes > Chapter 117 - Estates of Absentees

• Action: includes recoupment, counterclaim, setoff, suit in equity and any other proceeding in which rights are determined, including an action for possession. See Oregon Statutes 90.100
• Attorney: includes an associate member of the Oregon State Bar practicing law within the member's approved scope of practice. See Oregon Statutes 90.100
• Conduct: means the commission of an act or the failure to act. See Oregon Statutes 90.100
• Dwelling unit: means a structure or the part of a structure that is used as a home, residence or sleeping place by one person who maintains a household or by two or more persons who maintain a common household. See Oregon Statutes 90.100
• Facility: means a manufactured dwelling park or a marina. See Oregon Statutes 90.100
• Fee: means a nonrefundable payment of money. See Oregon Statutes 90.100
• Fixed term tenancy: means a tenancy that has a fixed term of existence, continuing to a specific ending date and terminating on that date without requiring further notice to effect the termination. See Oregon Statutes 90.100
• Floating home: has the meaning given that term in ORS § 830. See Oregon Statutes 90.100
• Gender identity: means an individual's gender-related identity, appearance, expression or behavior, regardless of whether the identity, appearance, expression or behavior differs from that associated with the gender assigned to the individual at birth. See Oregon Statutes 174.100
• Good faith: means honesty in fact in the conduct of the transaction concerned. See Oregon Statutes 90.100
• Intestate: Dying without leaving a will.
• Landlord: includes a person who is authorized by the owner, lessor or sublessor to manage the premises or to enter into a rental agreement. See Oregon Statutes 90.100
• Manufactured dwelling: includes an accessory building or structure. See Oregon Statutes 90.100
• Month-to-month tenancy: means a tenancy that automatically renews and continues for successive monthly periods on the same terms and conditions originally agreed to, or as revised by the parties, until terminated by one or both of the parties. See Oregon Statutes 90.100
• Organization: includes a corporation, government, governmental subdivision or agency, business trust, estate, trust, partnership or association, two or more persons having a joint or common interest, and any other legal or commercial entity. See Oregon Statutes 90.100
• Owner: includes a mortgagee in possession and means one or more persons, jointly or severally, in whom is vested:

  (a) All or part of the legal title to property; or

  (b) All or part of the beneficial ownership and a right to present use and enjoyment of the premises. See Oregon Statutes 90.100

• Person: includes an individual or organization. See Oregon Statutes 90.100
• Prepaid rent: means any payment of money to the landlord for a rent obligation not yet due. See Oregon Statutes 90.100
• Recreational vehicle: has the meaning given that term in ORS § 174. See Oregon Statutes 90.100
• Rent: means any payment to be made to the landlord under the rental agreement, periodic or otherwise, in exchange for the right of a tenant and any permitted pet to occupy a dwelling unit to the exclusion of others and to use the premises. See Oregon Statutes 90.100
• Rental agreement: includes a lease. See Oregon Statutes 90.100
• Restitution: The court-ordered payment of money by the defendant to the victim for damages caused by the criminal action.
• Security deposit: means a refundable payment or deposit of money, however designated, the primary function of which is to secure the performance of a rental agreement or any part of a rental agreement. See Oregon Statutes 90.100
• Sexual orientation: means an individual's actual or perceived heterosexuality, homosexuality or bisexuality. See Oregon Statutes 174.100
• Surrender: means an agreement, express or implied, as described in ORS § 90. See Oregon Statutes 90.100
• Testate: To die leaving a will.
• Week-to-week tenancy: means a tenancy that has all of the following characteristics:

  (a) Occupancy is charged on a weekly basis and is payable no less frequently than every seven days;

  (b) There is a written rental agreement that defines the landlord's and the tenant's rights and responsibilities under this chapter; and

  (c) There are no fees or security deposits, although the landlord may require the payment of an applicant screening charge, as provided in ORS § 90. See Oregon Statutes 90.100