Terms Used In Oregon Statutes > Chapter 40 > Contents of Writings, Recordings and Photographs

• 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.
• Amortization: Paying off a loan by regular installments.
• 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.
• 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
• City: includes any incorporated village or town. See Oregon Statutes 174.100
• Container: means milk and cream cans, farm milk tanks, milk tank trucks, milk storage tanks, pasteurizing vats, cheese vats, butter churns, butter tubs, cheese hoops and any other receptacle designed for use or used to hold fluid milk, milk or dairy products. See Oregon Statutes 621.003
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• 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.
• Cream: means that portion of milk consisting of milk fat. See Oregon Statutes 621.003
• Dealer: means every person or peddler engaged in the business of growing, harvesting, processing or distributing shellfish for human consumption. See Oregon Statutes 622.010
• Department: means the Oregon Department of Administrative Services. See Oregon Statutes 276.001
• Department: means the State Department of Agriculture. See Oregon Statutes 621.003
• Department: means the State Department of Agriculture. See Oregon Statutes 622.010
• Deposition: An oral statement made before an officer authorized by law to administer oaths. Such statements are often taken to examine potential witnesses, to obtain discovery, or to be used later in trial.
• Director: means the Director of the Oregon Department of Administrative Services. See Oregon Statutes 276.001
• Distributor: means a person who purchases only unpasteurized milk and pasteurizes or otherwise processes that milk, then bottles and distributes the milk for human consumption. See Oregon Statutes 621.003
• Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
• Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
• Fluid milk: means milk and any other product made by the addition of a substance to milk or to a liquid form of milk product if the milk or other product is produced, processed, distributed, sold or offered or exposed for sale for human consumption. See Oregon Statutes 621.003
• Frozen dessert: means a food product that is defined and standardized by rule under ORS § 621. See Oregon Statutes 621.003
• Frozen dessert mix: means the unfrozen, blended ingredients, in liquid or powdered form, from which frozen desserts are made by freezing the mix ingredients to a solid or semisolid consistency. See Oregon Statutes 621.003
• 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}
• 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
• Milk: means the lacteal secretion of cows, sheep and goats. See Oregon Statutes 621.003
• Outlays: Outlays are payments made (generally through the issuance of checks or disbursement of cash) to liquidate obligations. Outlays during a fiscal year may be for payment of obligations incurred in prior years or in the same year.
• Peddler: means every person who on the person's own behalf or as the agent of another goes from place to place, or house to house, carrying or offering shellfish for sale. See Oregon Statutes 622.010
• Person: includes city, county and state as well as those included within the definition of person in ORS § 174. See Oregon Statutes 622.010
• Personal property: All property that is not real property.
• Pleadings: Written statements of the parties in a civil case of their positions. In the federal courts, the principal pleadings are the complaint and the answer.
• Precedent: A court decision in an earlier case with facts and law similar to a dispute currently before a court. Precedent will ordinarily govern the decision of a later similar case, unless a party can show that it was wrongly decided or that it differed in some significant way.
• Producer: means a person who engages in the production of unpasteurized milk on a dairy farm and does not bottle the milk on the premises where production occurs, in pasteurized or unpasteurized form and for human consumption. See Oregon Statutes 621.003
• Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
• state government: means the executive department, the judicial department and the legislative department. See Oregon Statutes 174.111
• Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
• Trial: A hearing that takes place when the defendant pleads "not guilty" and witnesses are required to come to court to give evidence.