Terms Used In Oregon Statutes > Chapter 24 - Enforcement and Recognition of Foreign Judgments; Foreign-Money Claims

• Accession: means goods that are physically united with other goods in such a manner that the identity of the original goods is not lost. See Oregon Statutes 79.0102
• Account: means any deposit or credit account with a bank, including a demand, time, savings, passbook, share draft or like account, other than an account evidenced by a certificate of deposit. See Oregon Statutes 74.1040
• Account debtor: means a person obligated on an account, chattel paper or general intangible. See Oregon Statutes 79.0102
• Agricultural lien: means an interest, other than a security interest or a lien created under ORS § 87. See Oregon Statutes 79.0102
• Amateur athletic organization: means an entity organized and operated exclusively to foster state, national and international amateur unarmed combat sports competition. See Oregon Statutes 463.015
• Answer: The formal written statement by a defendant responding to a civil complaint and setting forth the grounds for defense.
• Any other state: includes any state and the District of Columbia. See Oregon Statutes 174.100
• 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 of incorporation: means the articles described in ORS § 60. See Oregon Statutes 60.001
• Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
• Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
• Authorized shares: means the shares of all classes that a domestic or foreign corporation is authorized to issue. See Oregon Statutes 60.001
• Bank: means an organization that is engaged in the business of banking. See Oregon Statutes 79.0102
• Banking day: has the meaning given that term in ORS § 708A. See Oregon Statutes 74.1040
• 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.
• Beneficiary: A person who is entitled to receive the benefits or proceeds of a will, trust, insurance policy, retirement plan, annuity, or other contract. ^{Source: OCC}
• Breaks: means the odd cents remaining after the payoff prices have been computed in accordance with ORS § 462. See Oregon Statutes 462.010
• Calendar year: means a 12-month year, January 1 through December 31. See Oregon Statutes 462.010
• Cash proceeds: means proceeds that are money, checks, deposit accounts or the like. See Oregon Statutes 79.0102
• Certificate of title: includes another record maintained as an alternative to the certificate of title by the governmental unit that issues certificates of title if a statute permits the security interest in question to be indicated on the record as a condition or result of the security interest's obtaining priority over the rights of the lien creditor with respect to the collateral. See Oregon Statutes 79.0102
• Charity: An agency, institution, or organization in existence and operating for the benefit of an indefinite number of persons and conducted for educational, religious, scientific, medical, or other beneficent purposes.
• Chattel paper: means a record or records that evidence both a monetary obligation and a security interest in specific goods, a security interest in specific goods and software used in the goods, a security interest in specific goods and license of software used in the goods, a lease of specific goods, or a lease of specific goods and license of software used in the goods. See Oregon Statutes 79.0102
• Clearing house: means an association of banks or other payors regularly clearing items. See Oregon Statutes 74.1040
• 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.
• Collateral: means the property subject to a security interest or agricultural lien. See Oregon Statutes 79.0102
• Commercial tort claim: means a claim arising in tort with respect to which:

  (A) The claimant is an organization; or

  (B) The claimant is an individual and the claim:

  (i) Arose in the course of the claimant's business or profession; and

  (ii) Does not include damages arising out of personal injury to or the death of an individual. See Oregon Statutes 79.0102

• Commission: means the Oregon Racing Commission. See Oregon Statutes 462.010
• Commodity account: means an account maintained by a commodity intermediary in which a commodity contract is carried for a commodity customer. See Oregon Statutes 79.0102
• Commodity contract: means a commodity futures contract, an option on a commodity futures contract, a commodity option or another contract if the contract or option is:

  (A) Traded on or subject to the rules of a board of trade that has been designated as a contract market for such a contract pursuant to federal commodities laws; or

  (B) Traded on a foreign commodity board of trade, exchange, or market, and is carried on the books of a commodity intermediary for a commodity customer. See Oregon Statutes 79.0102

• Commodity customer: means a person for which a commodity intermediary carries a commodity contract on its books. See Oregon Statutes 79.0102
• Commodity intermediary: means a person that:

  (A) Is registered as a futures commission merchant under federal commodities law; or

  (B) In the ordinary course of its business provides clearance or settlement services for a board of trade that has been designated as a contract market pursuant to federal commodities law. See Oregon Statutes 79.0102

• Consignee: means a merchant to which goods are delivered in a consignment. See Oregon Statutes 79.0102
• Consignment: means a transaction, regardless of its form, in which a person delivers goods to a merchant for the purpose of sale and:

  (A) The merchant:

  (i) Deals in goods of that kind under a name other than the name of the person making delivery;

  (ii) Is not an auctioneer; and

  (iii) Is not generally known by its creditors to be substantially engaged in selling the goods of others;

  (B) With respect to each delivery, the aggregate value of the goods is $1,000 or more at the time of delivery;

  (C) The goods are not consumer goods immediately before delivery; and

  (D) The transaction does not create a security interest that secures an obligation. See Oregon Statutes 79.0102

• Consignor: means a person that delivers goods to a consignee in a consignment. See Oregon Statutes 79.0102
• Consumer goods: means goods that are used or bought for use primarily for personal, family or household purposes. See Oregon Statutes 79.0102
• Consumer transaction: means a transaction in which:

  (i) An individual incurs an obligation primarily for personal, family or household purposes;

  (ii) A security interest secures the obligation; and

  (iii) The collateral is held or acquired primarily for personal, family or household purposes. See Oregon Statutes 79.0102

• Consumer-goods transaction: means a consumer transaction in which:

  (A) An individual incurs an obligation primarily for personal, family or household purposes; and

  (B) A security interest in consumer goods secures the obligation. See Oregon Statutes 79.0102

• Continuation statement: means an amendment of a financing statement which:

  (A) Identifies, by its file number, the initial financing statement to which it relates; and

  (B) Indicates that it is a continuation statement for, or that it is filed to continue the effectiveness of, the identified financing statement. See Oregon Statutes 79.0102

• Continuous race meet: includes any exhibition of animal racing continuously at the same race course by two or more licensees where the mutuel system is used in conjunction with any race. See Oregon Statutes 462.010
• Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
• Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
• Counterclaim: A claim that a defendant makes against a plaintiff.
• County court: includes board of county commissioners. See Oregon Statutes 174.100
• Customer: means a person having an account with a bank or for whom a bank has agreed to collect items, including a bank that maintains an account at another bank. See Oregon Statutes 74.1040
• Decedent: A deceased person.
• Delivery: means any method of delivery used in conventional commercial practice, including by hand, mail, commercial delivery and, in accordance with ORS § 60. See Oregon Statutes 60.001
• Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
• Deposit account: means a demand, time, savings, passbook or similar account maintained with a bank. See Oregon Statutes 79.0102
• 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
• Document: means a document of title or a receipt of the type described in ORS § 77. See Oregon Statutes 79.0102
• Documentary draft: means a draft to be presented for acceptance or payment if specified documents, certificated securities defined in ORS § 78. See Oregon Statutes 74.1040
• domestic corporation: means a corporation for profit that is incorporated under or subject to the provisions of this chapter and that is not a foreign corporation. See Oregon Statutes 60.001
• Drug: means any narcotic, sedative, anesthetic, analgesic, drug or other medication of any kind or description intended for use in any manner, directly or indirectly, internally or externally, in the diagnosis, treatment, mitigation or cure of injury or disease or for use in the prevention of disease that could affect, in any manner, the racing condition or performance of an animal as a depressant, stimulant, local anesthetic, analgesic, sedative or otherwise. See Oregon Statutes 462.010
• Electronic chattel paper: means chattel paper evidenced by a record or records consisting of information stored in an electronic medium. See Oregon Statutes 79.0102
• Electronic notice revocation: means a notice in which a person states that the person will not accept delivery of certain communications by means of electronic transmission. See Oregon Statutes 60.001
• Electronic transmission: means a form or process of communication that does not directly involve physically transferring paper or another tangible medium and that enables a recipient to retain, retrieve and reproduce information by means of an automated process that is used in conventional commercial practice, except as provided in ORS § 60. See Oregon Statutes 60.001
• Entertainment wrestling: means a noncompetitive performance in which the participants deliver blows or apply holds with no intent to punish or immobilize an opponent. See Oregon Statutes 463.015
• 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.
• Entity: means a corporation, foreign corporation, nonprofit corporation, profit or nonprofit unincorporated association, business trust, partnership, two or more persons that have a joint or common economic interest, any state, the United States, a federally recognized Native American or American Indian tribal government and any foreign government. See Oregon Statutes 60.001
• Equipment: means goods other than inventory, farm products or consumer goods. See Oregon Statutes 79.0102
• Escheat: Reversion of real or personal property to the state when 1) a person dies without leaving a will and has no heirs, or 2) when the property (such as a bank account) has been inactive for a certain period of time. ^{Source: OCC}
• Escrow: Money given to a third party to be held for payment until certain conditions are met.
• Event: means an unarmed combat sports or entertainment wrestling match, bout, contest, exhibition or performance. See Oregon Statutes 463.015
• executive department: means all statewide elected officers other than judges, and all boards, commissions, departments, divisions and other entities, without regard to the designation given to those entities, that are within the executive branch of government as described in Article III, section 1, of the Oregon Constitution, and that are not:

  (a) In the judicial department or the legislative department;

  (b) Local governments; or

  (c) Special government bodies. See Oregon Statutes 174.112

• Exhibition: means a demonstration of unarmed combat sports skills, the results of which are not counted toward the official record of the competitors. See Oregon Statutes 463.015
• 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.
• Farm products: means goods, other than standing timber, with respect to which the debtor is engaged in a farming operation and which are:

  (A) Crops grown, growing, or to be grown, including:

  (i) Crops produced on trees, vines and bushes; and

  (ii) Aquatic goods produced in aquacultural operations;

  (B) Livestock, born or unborn, including aquatic goods produced in aquacultural operations;

  (C) Supplies used or produced in a farming operation; or

  (D) Products of crops or livestock in their unmanufactured states. See Oregon Statutes 79.0102

• Farm use: has the meaning given that term in ORS § 215. See Oregon Statutes 215.010
• Farming operation: means raising, cultivating, propagating, fattening, grazing or any other farming, livestock or aquacultural operation. See Oregon Statutes 79.0102
• File number: means the number assigned to an initial financing statement pursuant to ORS § 79. See Oregon Statutes 79.0102
• Filing office: means an office designated in ORS § 79. See Oregon Statutes 79.0102
• Filing-office rule: means a rule adopted pursuant to ORS § 79. See Oregon Statutes 79.0102
• Financing statement: means a record or records composed of an initial financing statement and any filed record relating to the initial financing statement. See Oregon Statutes 79.0102
• Fiscal year: means a 12-month year, as described in ORS § 293. See Oregon Statutes 462.010
• Fixture filing: means the filing of a financing statement covering goods that are or are to become fixtures and satisfying ORS § 79. See Oregon Statutes 79.0102
• Fixtures: means goods that have become so related to particular real property that an interest in them arises under real property law. See Oregon Statutes 79.0102
• 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}
• Foreign corporation: means a corporation for profit that is incorporated under laws other than the laws of the state. See Oregon Statutes 60.001
• Forgery: The fraudulent signing or alteration of another's name to an instrument such as a deed, mortgage, or check. The intent of the forgery is to deceive or defraud. ^{Source: OCC}
• Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
• General intangible: means any personal property, including things in action, other than accounts, chattel paper, commercial tort claims, deposit accounts, documents, goods, instruments, investment property, letter-of-credit rights, letters of credit, money and oil, gas or other minerals before extraction. See Oregon Statutes 79.0102
• Goods: means all things that are movable when a security interest attaches. See Oregon Statutes 79.0102
• Governmental unit: means a subdivision, agency, department, county, parish, municipality or other unit of the government of the United States, a state or a foreign country. See Oregon Statutes 79.0102
• Grand jury: agreement providing that a lender will delay exercising its rights (in the case of a mortgage,
• Gross mutuel wagering: means all mutuel wagering that is made in person:

  (a) At the race course of a race meet licensee;

  (b) At an off-race course mutuel wagering location approved by the commission; or

  (c) Through account wagering authorized under ORS § 462. See Oregon Statutes 462.010

• Gross receipts: means the consideration, including money, credits, rights or other items of value, received from the sale of tickets or other admissions indicia or rights, without any deduction from the total value of the consideration. See Oregon Statutes 463.015
• Health-care-insurance receivable: means an interest in or claim under a policy of insurance which is a right to payment of a monetary obligation for health-care goods or services provided. See Oregon Statutes 79.0102
• Individual: means a natural person or the estate of an incompetent individual or a deceased individual. See Oregon Statutes 60.001
• Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
• Institution: means the institutions designated in ORS § 179. See Oregon Statutes 179.010
• Instrument: means a negotiable instrument or any other writing that evidences a right to the payment of a monetary obligation, is not itself a security agreement or lease, and is of a type that in ordinary course of business is transferred by delivery with any necessary indorsement or assignment. See Oregon Statutes 79.0102
• Intangible property: Property that has no intrinsic value, but is merely the evidence of value such as stock certificates, bonds, and promissory notes.
• Interest rate: The amount paid by a borrower to a lender in exchange for the use of the lender's money for a certain period of time. Interest is paid on loans or on debt instruments, such as notes or bonds, either at regular intervals or as part of a lump sum payment when the issue matures. ^{Source: OCC}
• Intestate: Dying without leaving a will.
• Inventory: means goods, other than farm products, which:

  (A) Are leased by a person as lessor;

  (B) Are held by a person for sale or lease or to be furnished under a contract of service;

  (C) Are furnished by a person under a contract of service; or

  (D) Consist of raw materials, work in process, or materials used or consumed in a business. See Oregon Statutes 79.0102

• Investment property: means a security, whether certificated or uncertificated, security entitlement, securities account, commodity contract or commodity account. See Oregon Statutes 79.0102
• Item: means an instrument or a promise or order to pay money handled by a bank for collection or payment. See Oregon Statutes 74.1040
• 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.
• Judge: means a person licensed by the Superintendent of State Police who is at cageside or ringside during an unarmed combat sports event and who has the responsibility of scoring the bout of the competitors in the event. See Oregon Statutes 463.015
• 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}
• legislative department: means the Legislative Assembly, the committees of the Legislative Assembly and all administrative divisions of the Legislative Assembly and its committees, whether denominated as boards, commissions or departments or by any other designation. See Oregon Statutes 174.114
• Letter-of-credit right: means a right to payment or performance under a letter of credit, whether or not the beneficiary has demanded or is at the time entitled to demand payment or performance. See Oregon Statutes 79.0102
• Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
• Licensee: means a person, partnership, corporation, political subdivision, municipal corporation or any other body holding a license under this chapter. See Oregon Statutes 462.010
• Lineal descendant: Direct descendant of the same ancestors.
• 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
• Manager: means a person licensed by the superintendent who does any of the following:

  (a) By contract or agreement undertakes to represent the interests of a professional unarmed combat sports competitor in procuring or arranging the conduct of an unarmed combat sports event in which the professional unarmed combat sports competitor is a participant. See Oregon Statutes 463.015

• Manufactured structure: has the meaning given that term in ORS § 446. See Oregon Statutes 79.0102
• Marital deduction: The deduction(s) that can be taken in the determination of gift and estate tax liabilities because of the existence of a marriage or marital relationship.
• Matchmaker: means a person licensed by the superintendent who is employed by or associated with a promoter in the capacity of booking and arranging unarmed combat sports events between unarmed combat sports competitors and for whose activities in this regard the promoter is legally responsible. See Oregon Statutes 463.015
• Medical personnel: means a physician licensed under ORS Chapter 677 or a physician assistant licensed under ORS § 677. See Oregon Statutes 463.015
• monetary obligation: means a monetary obligation secured by the goods or owed under a lease of the goods and includes a monetary obligation with respect to software used in the goods. See Oregon Statutes 79.0102
• Money award: means a judgment or portion of a judgment that requires the payment of money. See Oregon Statutes 18.005
• Mutuel: means a system whereby:

  (a) Wagers with respect to the outcome of a race are placed with a wagering pool in which the participants are not wagering against the operator; and

  (b) The operator distributes to one or more winning participants the total amount in the wagering pool, less amounts deducted by the operator as approved by the commission. See Oregon Statutes 462.010

• 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}
• New debtor: means a person that becomes bound as debtor under ORS § 79. See Oregon Statutes 79.0102
• Noncash proceeds: means proceeds other than cash proceeds. See Oregon Statutes 79.0102
• Oath: A promise to tell the truth.
• Obligor: means a person that, with respect to an obligation secured by a security interest in or an agricultural lien on the collateral:

  (i) Owes payment or other performance of the obligation;

  (ii) Has provided property other than the collateral to secure payment or other performance of the obligation; or

  (iii) Is otherwise accountable in whole or in part for payment or other performance of the obligation. See Oregon Statutes 79.0102

• Official: means an individual authorized by the superintendent or an authorized representative of the superintendent to perform duties as assigned by the superintendent or an authorized representative of the superintendent. See Oregon Statutes 463.015
• 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.
• Payment intangible: means a general intangible under which the account debtor's principal obligation is a monetary obligation. See Oregon Statutes 79.0102
• Person: means an individual or entity. See Oregon Statutes 60.001
• Person: includes an individual, association, organization, partnership or corporation. See Oregon Statutes 463.015
• Personal property: All property that is not real property.
• Plaintiff: The person who files the complaint in a civil lawsuit.
• 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
• Probable cause: A reasonable ground for belief that the offender violated a specific law.
• Professional unarmed combat sports competitor: means an individual licensed by the superintendent who competes for or has competed for a money prize, purse or compensation in an unarmed combat sports event. See Oregon Statutes 463.015
• Promissory note: means an instrument that evidences a promise to pay a monetary obligation, does not evidence an order to pay, and does not contain an acknowledgment by a bank that the bank has received for deposit a sum of money or funds. See Oregon Statutes 79.0102
• Promoter: means a person licensed by the superintendent who arranges, gives, holds or conducts an entertainment wrestling or unarmed combat sports event in this state and who is legally responsible for the lawful conduct of the event. See Oregon Statutes 463.015
• Proposal: means a record authenticated by a secured party which includes the terms on which the secured party is willing to accept collateral in full or partial satisfaction of the obligation it secures pursuant to ORS § 79. See Oregon Statutes 79.0102
• Prosecute: To charge someone with a crime. A prosecutor tries a criminal case on behalf of the government.
• public body: means state government bodies, local government bodies and special government bodies. See Oregon Statutes 174.109
• Public organic record: means a record that is available to the public for inspection and is:

  (A) A record consisting of the record initially filed with or issued by a state or the United States to form or organize an organization and any record filed with or issued by the state or the United States that amends or restates the initial record;

  (B) An organic record of a business trust consisting of the record initially filed with a state and any record filed with the state that amends or restates the initial record, if a statute of the state governing business trusts requires that the record be filed with the state; or

  (C) A record consisting of legislation enacted by the legislature of a state or the Congress of the United States that forms or organizes an organization, any record amending the legislation and any record filed with or issued by the state or the United States that amends or restates the name of the organization. See Oregon Statutes 79.0102

• Public training track: means any race course or other facility that is available or open to the public for use in the training or schooling of racing animals. See Oregon Statutes 462.010
• Public-finance transaction: means a secured transaction in connection with which:

  (A) Debt securities are issued;

  (B) All or a portion of the securities issued have an initial stated maturity of at least 20 years; and

  (C) The debtor, obligor, secured party, account debtor or other person obligated on collateral, assignor or assignee of a secured obligation, or assignor or assignee of a security interest is a state or a governmental unit of a state. See Oregon Statutes 79.0102

• Race: includes races conducted without wagering, provided one or more races in the meet are conducted with wagering. See Oregon Statutes 462.010
• Race course: means all the premises used in connection with the conduct of a race meet, including but not limited to, the race track, grandstands, paddock, stables, kennels and all other buildings and grounds adjacent to or appurtenant to the physical limits of the race track. See Oregon Statutes 462.010
• Race meet: means any exhibition of animal racing where the mutuel system is used in conjunction with any race. See Oregon Statutes 462.010
• Record date: means the date established under this chapter on which a corporation determines the identity of the corporation's shareholders and their shareholdings for purposes of this chapter. See Oregon Statutes 60.001
• Recourse: An arrangement in which a bank retains, in form or in substance, any credit risk directly or indirectly associated with an asset it has sold (in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles) that exceeds a pro rata share of the bank's claim on the asset. If a bank has no claim on an asset it has sold, then the retention of any credit risk is recourse. ^{Source: FDIC}
• Registered organization: includes a business trust that is formed or organized under the law of a single state if a statute of the state governing business trusts requires that the business trust's organic record be filed with the state. See Oregon Statutes 79.0102
• 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.
• Restitution: The court-ordered payment of money by the defendant to the victim for damages caused by the criminal action.
• Secondary obligor: means an obligor to the extent that:

  (A) The obligor's obligation is secondary; or

  (B) The obligor has a right of recourse with respect to an obligation secured by collateral against the debtor, another obligor, or property of either. See Oregon Statutes 79.0102

• Security agreement: means an agreement that creates or provides for a security interest. See Oregon Statutes 79.0102
• Service of process: The service of writs or summonses to the appropriate party.
• Share: means a unit into which the proprietary interest in a corporation is divided. See Oregon Statutes 60.001
• 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
• Software: means a computer program and any supporting information provided in connection with a transaction relating to the program. See Oregon Statutes 79.0102
• special government body: means any of the following:

  (a) A public corporation created under a statute of this state and specifically designated as a public corporation. See Oregon Statutes 174.117

• State: means a state of the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands or any territory or insular possession subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. See Oregon Statutes 79.0102
• state government: means the executive department, the judicial department and the legislative department. See Oregon Statutes 174.111
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• Striking: means a physical attack in which an individual uses a part of the individual's body with the intent to inflict damage on an opponent. See Oregon Statutes 463.015
• Submission: means an act by an individual who yields to the individual's opponent and that results in the individual's immediate defeat. See Oregon Statutes 463.015
• Subpoena duces tecum: A command to a witness to produce documents.
• Subscriber: means a person who subscribes for shares in a corporation, whether before or after incorporation. See Oregon Statutes 60.001
• Summons: Another word for subpoena used by the criminal justice system.
• Supporting obligation: means a letter-of-credit right or secondary obligation that supports the payment or performance of an account, chattel paper, a document, a general intangible, an instrument or investment property. See Oregon Statutes 79.0102
• Tangible chattel paper: means chattel paper evidenced by a record or records consisting of information that is inscribed on a tangible medium. See Oregon Statutes 79.0102
• Termination statement: means an amendment of a financing statement which:

  (A) Identifies, by its file number, the initial financing statement to which it relates; and

  (B) Indicates either that it is a termination statement or that the identified financing statement is no longer effective. See Oregon Statutes 79.0102

• Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
• 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.
• Tract: means one or more contiguous lots or parcels under the same ownership. See Oregon Statutes 215.010
• 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.
• Transmitting utility: means an organization primarily engaged in the business of:

  (A) Operating a railroad, subway, street railway or trolley bus;

  (B) Transmitting communications electrically, electromagnetically or by light;

  (C) Transmitting goods by pipeline or sewer; or

  (D) Transmitting or producing and transmitting electricity, steam, gas or water. See Oregon Statutes 79.0102

• Trust account: A general term that covers all types of accounts in a trust department, such as estates, guardianships, and agencies. ^{Source: OCC}
• Unarmed combat sports: means a form of competition where the intent is to win by striking, knockout, technical knockout or submission. See Oregon Statutes 463.015
• Unarmed combat sports competitor: means an individual licensed by the superintendent who competes in an unarmed combat sports event. See Oregon Statutes 463.015
• Uniform Commercial Code: A set of statutes enacted by the various states to provide consistency among the states' commercial laws. It includes negotiable instruments, sales, stock transfers, trust and warehouse receipts, and bills of lading. ^{Source: OCC}
• United States: means the federal government or a district, authority, bureau, commission, department or any other agency of the United States. See Oregon Statutes 60.001
• Veto: The procedure established under the Constitution by which the President/Governor refuses to approve a bill or joint resolution and thus prevents its enactment into law. A regular veto occurs when the President/Governor returns the legislation to the house in which it originated. The President/Governor usually returns a vetoed bill with a message indicating his reasons for rejecting the measure. In Congress, the veto can be overridden only by a two-thirds vote in both the Senate and the House.
• Violate: includes failure to comply. See Oregon Statutes 174.100
• Written: means embodied as a document. See Oregon Statutes 60.001