§ 30.900 Product liability civil action defined
§ 30.902 Products provided by physicians
§ 30.905 Time limitation for commencement of action
§ 30.907 Action for damages from asbestos-related disease; limitations
§ 30.908 Action arising out of injury from breast implants; limitations
§ 30.910 Product disputably presumed not unreasonably dangerous
§ 30.915 Defenses
§ 30.920 When seller or lessor of product liable; effect of liability rule
§ 30.925 Punitive damages
§ 30.927 When manufacturer of drug not liable for punitive damages; exceptions
§ 30.928 Time limitation for actions for damages caused by certain light bulbs

Terms Used In Oregon Statutes > Chapter 30 > Product Liability Actions

  • 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.
  • Any other state: includes any state and the District of Columbia. See Oregon Statutes 174.100
  • Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
  • Appraisal: A determination of property value.
  • Board: means the governing board of the State Department of Geology and Mineral Industries. See Oregon Statutes 522.005
  • board of commissioners: means the governing body of a district. See Oregon Statutes 523.010
  • By-product: means any mineral or minerals (exclusive of oil, hydrocarbon gas, helium or other hydrocarbon substances) which are found in solution or in association with geothermal resources and which have a value of less than 75 percent of the value of the geothermal resources or are not, because of quantity, quality, or technical difficulties in extraction and production, of sufficient value to warrant extraction and production by themselves. See Oregon Statutes 523.010
  • City: includes any incorporated village or town. See Oregon Statutes 174.100
  • 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.
  • Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Cooperative agreement: means an agreement or plan of development and operation for the production or utilization of geothermal resources in which separate ownership units independently operate without allocation of production. See Oregon Statutes 522.005
  • Correlative rights: means the right of each owner in a geothermal area to obtain that owner's just and equitable share of the underlying geothermal resource, or an economic equivalent of that share of the resource, produced in a manner and in an amount that does not injure the reservoir to the detriment of others. See Oregon Statutes 522.005
  • County: means the county in which the district, or the greater portion of the taxable assessed value of the district, is located. See Oregon Statutes 523.010
  • County clerk: means the county clerk of the county. See Oregon Statutes 523.010
  • County court: includes board of county commissioners. See Oregon Statutes 174.100
  • Decedent: A deceased person.
  • Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
  • Department: means the State Department of Geology and Mineral Industries. See Oregon Statutes 522.005
  • Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
  • Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
  • District: means a geothermal heating district formed under this chapter. See Oregon Statutes 523.010
  • Docket: A log containing brief entries of court proceedings.
  • Drilling: includes drilling, redrilling and deepening of a geothermal well. See Oregon Statutes 522.005
  • 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
  • Geothermal heat: means heat derived from geothermal resources. See Oregon Statutes 523.010
  • Geothermal resources: means the natural heat of the earth, the energy, in whatever form, below the surface of the earth present in, resulting from, or created by, or that may be extracted from, the natural heat, and all minerals in solution or other products obtained from naturally heated fluids, brines, associated gases, and steam, in whatever form, found below the surface of the earth, exclusive of helium or of oil, hydrocarbon gas or other hydrocarbon substances, but including, specifically:

    (a) All products of geothermal processes, including indigenous steam, hot water and hot brines;

    (b) Steam and other gases, hot water and hot brines resulting from water, gas, or other fluids artificially introduced into geothermal formations;

    (c) Heat or other associated energy found in geothermal formations; and

    (d) Any by-product derived from them. See Oregon Statutes 522.005

  • Geothermal resources: means the natural heat of the earth, the energy, in whatever form, below the surface of the earth present in, resulting from, or created by, or which may be extracted from, the natural heat, and all minerals in solution or other products obtained from naturally heated fluids, brines, associated gases, and steam, in whatever form, found below the surface of the earth, exclusive of oil, hydrocarbon gas, helium or other hydrocarbon substances, but including, specifically:

    (a) All products of geothermal processes, embracing indigenous steam, hot water and hot brines;

    (b) Steam and other gases, hot water and hot brines resulting from water, gas or other fluids artificially introduced into geothermal formations;

    (c) Heat or other associated energy found in geothermal formation; and

    (d) Any by-product derived from them. See Oregon Statutes 523.010

  • Geothermal well: includes any excavation made for producing geothermal resources and any geothermal reinjection well. See Oregon Statutes 522.005
  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • Land: means both surface and mineral rights. See Oregon Statutes 522.005
  • 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.
  • 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
  • Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
  • Operator: means the person:

    (a) Who possesses the legal right to drill a geothermal well;

    (b) Who has obtained a drilling permit pursuant to ORS § 522. See Oregon Statutes 522.005

  • Owner: means the holder of the record title to real property or the vendee under a land sale contract, if there is such a contract. See Oregon Statutes 523.010
  • Personal property: All property that is not real property.
  • Plaintiff: The person who files the complaint in a civil lawsuit.
  • public body: means state government bodies, local government bodies and special government bodies. See Oregon Statutes 174.109
  • Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
  • Reservoir: means an aquifer or combination of aquifers or zones containing a common geothermal or ground water resource. See Oregon Statutes 522.005
  • Royalty interest: means a right or interest in geothermal resources produced from land or in the proceeds of the first sale of those resources. See Oregon Statutes 522.005
  • 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.
  • Statute of limitations: A law that sets the time within which parties must take action to enforce their rights.
  • Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
  • Unit agreement: means an agreement or plan of development and operation developed under the provisions of ORS § 273. See Oregon Statutes 522.005
  • Unit area: means the area described in a unit agreement that constitutes the land subject to development under the agreement. See Oregon Statutes 522.005
  • Unit operator: means the person designated in the unit agreement to manage and conduct the operation involving unitized land. See Oregon Statutes 522.005
  • Unit production: means all geothermal resources produced from a unit area from the effective date of a unit agreement approved by the board under ORS § 522. See Oregon Statutes 522.005
  • United States: includes territories, outlying possessions and the District of Columbia. See Oregon Statutes 174.100
  • Violate: includes failure to comply. See Oregon Statutes 174.100
  • Working interest: means an interest in geothermal resources or in land containing geothermal resources that is held under a lease, operating agreement, fee title or otherwise and under which, except as otherwise provided in a unit or cooperative agreement, the owner of the interest has the right to explore for, develop, produce or utilize the resources. See Oregon Statutes 522.005