Terms Used In Oregon Statutes > Chapter 20 > Attorney Fees; Expert Witness Fees

• Advice and consent: Under the Constitution, presidential nominations for executive and judicial posts take effect only when confirmed by the Senate, and international treaties become effective only when the Senate approves them by a two-thirds vote.
• agency: means an urban renewal agency created under ORS § 457. See Oregon Statutes 457.010
• Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
• Appellate: About appeals; an appellate court has the power to review the judgement of another lower court or tribunal.
• 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
• authority: means any housing authority established pursuant to the Housing Authorities Law. See Oregon Statutes 457.010
• Bankruptcy: Refers to statutes and judicial proceedings involving persons or businesses that cannot pay their debts and seek the assistance of the court in getting a fresh start. Under the protection of the bankruptcy court, debtors may discharge their debts, perhaps by paying a portion of each debt. Bankruptcy judges preside over these proceedings.
• Blighted areas: means areas that, by reason of deterioration, faulty planning, inadequate or improper facilities, deleterious land use or the existence of unsafe structures, or any combination of these factors, are detrimental to the safety, health or welfare of the community. See Oregon Statutes 457.010
• Certified statement: means the statement prepared and filed pursuant to ORS § 457. See Oregon Statutes 457.010
• City: means any incorporated city. See Oregon Statutes 457.010
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Counterclaim: A claim that a defendant makes against a plaintiff.
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Entitlement: A Federal program or provision of law that requires payments to any person or unit of government that meets the eligibility criteria established by law. Entitlements constitute a binding obligation on the part of the Federal Government, and eligible recipients have legal recourse if the obligation is not fulfilled. Social Security and veterans' compensation and pensions are examples of entitlement programs.
• Existing urban renewal plan: means an urban renewal plan that provides for a division of ad valorem property taxes as described under ORS § 457. See Oregon Statutes 457.010
• Farm use: has the meaning given that term in ORS § 215. See Oregon Statutes 215.010
• Fee simple: Absolute title to property with no limitations or restrictions regarding the person who may inherit it.
• Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
• Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
• Fiscal year: means the fiscal year commencing on July 1 and closing on June 30. See Oregon Statutes 457.010
• 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}
• Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
• 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
• Increment: means that part of the assessed value of a taxing district attributable to any increase in the assessed value of the property located in an urban renewal area, or portion thereof, over the assessed value specified in the certified statement. See Oregon Statutes 457.010
• Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). ^{Source: OCC}
• Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
• Life estate: A property interest limited in duration to the life of the individual holding the interest (life tenant).
• Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants.
• local government: means all cities, counties and local service districts located in this state, and all administrative subdivisions of those cities, counties and local service districts. See Oregon Statutes 174.116
• Maximum indebtedness: means the amount of the principal of indebtedness included in a plan pursuant to ORS § 457. See Oregon Statutes 457.010
• Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
• Municipality: means any county or any city in this state. See Oregon Statutes 457.010
• Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
• Permanent rate plan: means an urban renewal plan that:

  (a) Was adopted on or after September 29, 2019; or

  (b) Was substantially amended as described in ORS § 457. See Oregon Statutes 457.010

• Personal property: All property that is not real property.
• Plaintiff: The person who files the complaint in a civil lawsuit.
• plan: means a plan, as it exists or is changed or modified from time to time for one or more urban renewal areas, as provided in ORS § 457. See Oregon Statutes 457.010
• project: means any work or undertaking carried out under ORS § 457. See Oregon Statutes 457.010
• public body: means state government bodies, local government bodies and special government bodies. See Oregon Statutes 174.109
• Public building project: means an urban renewal project that includes a public building. See Oregon Statutes 457.010
• public notice: means any legal publication which requires an affidavit of publication as required in ORS § 193. See Oregon Statutes 174.104
• Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
• Reduced rate plan: means an urban renewal plan that:

  (a) Was adopted before December 6, 1996, is an existing urban renewal plan and was designated as an Option One plan under ORS § 457. See Oregon Statutes 457.010

• Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
• Sexual orientation: means an individual's actual or perceived heterosexuality, homosexuality or bisexuality. See Oregon Statutes 174.100
• Standard rate plan: means an urban renewal plan that is not a permanent rate plan or reduced rate plan. See Oregon Statutes 457.010
• State Treasury: includes those financial assets the lawful custody of which are vested in the State Treasurer and the office of the State Treasurer relating to the custody of those financial assets. See Oregon Statutes 174.100
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• Taxing district: means the state, city, county or any other unit of government that has the power to levy a tax. See Oregon Statutes 457.010
• Tenancy in common: A type of property ownership in which two or more individuals have an undivided interest in property. At the death of one tenant in common, his (her) fractional percentage of ownership in the property passes to the decedent
• Tract: means one or more contiguous lots or parcels under the same ownership. See Oregon Statutes 215.010
• Urban renewal area: means a blighted area included in an urban renewal plan or an area included in an urban renewal plan under ORS § 457. See Oregon Statutes 457.010