Terms Used In Oregon Statutes > Chapter 205 - County Clerks

• Allegation: something that someone says happened.
• Alternate base year: means the last four completed calendar quarters preceding the benefit year. See Oregon Statutes 657B.010
• Attorney-at-law: A person who is legally qualified and licensed to practice law, and to represent and act for clients in legal proceedings.
• Average weekly wage: means the amount calculated by the Employment Department as the state average weekly covered wage under ORS § 657. See Oregon Statutes 657B.010
• Bail: Security given for the release of a criminal defendant or witness from legal custody (usually in the form of money) to secure his/her appearance on the day and time appointed.
• Base year: means the first four of the last five completed calendar quarters preceding the benefit year. See Oregon Statutes 657B.010
• Benefits: means the money allowances payable to unemployed persons under this chapter. See Oregon Statutes 657.010
• Benefits: means family and medical leave insurance benefits. See Oregon Statutes 657B.010
• Bequeath: To gift property by will.
• Bequest: Property gifted by will.
• Calendar quarter: means the period of three consecutive calendar months ending on March 31, June 30, September 30 or December 31, or the approximate equivalent thereof, as the Director of the Employment Department may, by rule, prescribe. See Oregon Statutes 657.010
• Claimant: means an individual who has submitted an application or established a claim for benefits. See Oregon Statutes 657B.010
• Clerk of court: An officer appointed by the court to work with the chief judge in overseeing the court's administration, especially to assist in managing the flow of cases through the court and to maintain court records.
• Commission: means the State Parks and Recreation Commission. See Oregon Statutes 390.005
• Common law: The legal system that originated in England and is now in use in the United States. It is based on judicial decisions rather than legislative action.
• Conference committee: A temporary, ad hoc panel composed of conferees from both chamber of a legislature which is formed for the purpose of reconciling differences in legislation that has passed both chambers. Conference committees are usually convened to resolve bicameral differences on major and controversial legislation.
• Continuance: Putting off of a hearing ot trial until a later time.
• contributions: means the taxes that are the money payments required by this chapter, or voluntary payments permitted, to be made to the Unemployment Compensation Trust Fund. See Oregon Statutes 657.010
• contributions: means the money payments made by any of the following under ORS § 657B. See Oregon Statutes 657B.010
• county court: includes board of county commissioners. See Oregon Statutes 382.005
• County court: includes board of county commissioners. See Oregon Statutes 174.100
• Covered individual: means any one of the following who qualifies under ORS § 657B. See Oregon Statutes 657B.010
• Devise: To gift property by will.
• Director: means the State Parks and Recreation Director. See Oregon Statutes 390.005
• Dismissal: The dropping of a case by the judge without further consideration or hearing. ^Source:
• Docket: A log containing brief entries of court proceedings.
• Donee: The recipient of a gift.
• Dower: A widow
• employee: means any person, including aliens and minors, employed for remuneration or under any contract of hire, written or oral, express or implied, by an employer subject to this chapter in an employment subject to this chapter. See Oregon Statutes 657.015
• employer: means any employing unit which employs one or more individuals in an employment subject to this chapter in each of 18 separate weeks during any calendar year, or in which the employing unit's total payroll during any calendar quarter amounts to $1,000 or more. See Oregon Statutes 657.025
• Employer: means any person that employs one or more employees working anywhere in this state or any agent or employee of such person to whom the duties of the person under this chapter have been delegated. See Oregon Statutes 657B.010
• employment: includes service that is:

  (a) Subject to the tax imposed by the Federal Unemployment Tax Act; or

  (b) Required to be covered under this chapter as a condition for employers to receive a full tax credit against the tax imposed by the Federal Unemployment Tax Act. See Oregon Statutes 657.030

• Employment agency: has the meaning given that term in ORS § 658. See Oregon Statutes 657B.010
• 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.
• Fair market value: The price at which an asset would change hands in a transaction between a willing, informed buyer and a willing, informed seller.
• Family and medical leave insurance benefits: means the wage replacement benefits that are available to a covered individual under ORS § 657B. See Oregon Statutes 657B.010
• Family leave: means leave from work taken by a covered individual:

  (A) To care for and bond with a child during the first year after the child's birth or during the first year after the placement of the child through foster care or adoption; or

  (B) To care for a family member with a serious health condition. See Oregon Statutes 657B.010

• Fee simple: Absolute title to property with no limitations or restrictions regarding the person who may inherit it.
• 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.
• Grand jury: agreement providing that a lender will delay exercising its rights (in the case of a mortgage,
• Grantor: The person who establishes a trust and places property into it.
• Guardian: A person legally empowered and charged with the duty of taking care of and managing the property of another person who because of age, intellect, or health, is incapable of managing his (her) own affairs.
• Indemnification: In general, a collateral contract or assurance under which one person agrees to secure another person against either anticipated financial losses or potential adverse legal consequences. ^{Source: FDIC}
• Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
• Inter vivos: Transfer of property from one living person to another living person.
• Joint meeting: An occasion, often ceremonial, when the House and Senate each adopt a unanimous consent agreement
• Legal tender: coins, dollar bills, or other currency issued by a government as official money. ^{Source: U.S. Mint}
• Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
• Medical leave: means leave from work taken by a covered individual that is made necessary by the individual's own serious health condition. See Oregon Statutes 657B.010
• Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
• Mortgagee: The person to whom property is mortgaged and who has loaned the money.
• Mortgagor: The person who pledges property to a creditor as collateral for a loan and who receives the money.
• National Bank: A bank that is subject to the supervision of the Comptroller of the Currency. The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency is a bureau of the U.S. Treasury Department. A national bank can be recognized because it must have "national" or "national association" in its name. ^{Source: OCC}
• Nonprofit employing unit: means an organization, or group of organizations, described in section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code that is exempt from income tax under section 501(a) of the Internal Revenue Code. See Oregon Statutes 657.010
• Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
• Person: means an individual, organization, corporation, government, governmental subdivision or agency, business trust, partnership or association, two or more persons having a joint or common interest or any other legal or commercial entity. See Oregon Statutes 205.010
• Power of attorney: A written instrument which authorizes one person to act as another's agent or attorney. The power of attorney may be for a definite, specific act, or it may be general in nature. The terms of the written power of attorney may specify when it will expire. If not, the power of attorney usually expires when the person granting it dies. ^{Source: OCC}
• Public law: A public bill or joint resolution that has passed both chambers and been enacted into law. Public laws have general applicability nationwide.
• public notice: means any legal publication which requires an affidavit of publication as required in ORS § 193. See Oregon Statutes 174.104
• Revocable trust: A trust agreement that can be canceled, rescinded, revoked, or repealed by the grantor (person who establishes the trust).
• Safe leave: means leave taken for any purpose described in ORS § 659A. See Oregon Statutes 657B.010
• Serious health condition: has the meaning given that term in ORS § 659A. See Oregon Statutes 657B.010
• Summons: Another word for subpoena used by the criminal justice system.
• Taxes: means the money payments to the Unemployment Compensation Trust Fund required, or voluntary payments permitted, by this chapter. See Oregon Statutes 657.010
• Temporary restraining order: Prohibits a person from an action that is likely to cause irreparable harm. This differs from an injunction in that it may be granted immediately, without notice to the opposing party, and without a hearing. It is intended to last only until a hearing can be held.
• Text: includes the words contained in the body of an instrument to be recorded and the names of the transactions contained in the instrument. See Oregon Statutes 205.010
• Third party administrator: means a third party that enters into an agreement with the Director of the Employment Department to implement and administer the paid family and medical leave program established under this chapter. See Oregon Statutes 657B.010
• Tort: A civil wrong or breach of a duty to another person, as outlined by law. A very common tort is negligent operation of a motor vehicle that results in property damage and personal injury in an automobile accident.
• Transaction: means an action, including but not limited to a transfer, encumbrance or release affecting title to or an interest in real property, that is required or permitted by state law or rule or federal law or regulation to be recorded. See Oregon Statutes 205.010
• 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.
• Tribal government: has the meaning given that term in ORS § 181A. See Oregon Statutes 657B.010
• User fees: Fees charged to users of goods or services provided by the government. In levying or authorizing these fees, the legislature determines whether the revenue should go into the treasury or should be available to the agency providing the goods or services.
• Variable Rate: Having a "variable" rate means that the APR changes from time to time based on fluctuations in an external rate, normally the Prime Rate. This external rate is known as the "index." If the index changes, the variable rate normally changes. Also see Fixed Rate.
• wages: means all remuneration for employment, including the cash value, as determined by the Director of the Employment Department under the regulations of the director, of all remuneration paid in any medium other than cash. See Oregon Statutes 657.105
• Wages: has the meaning given that term in ORS § 657. See Oregon Statutes 657B.010
• wife: means spouses or a spouse in a marriage. See Oregon Statutes 174.100
• Writ: A formal written command, issued from the court, requiring the performance of a specific act.