Terms Used In Oregon Statutes > Chapter 621 > General Provisions

• 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.
• 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
• Department: means the State Department of Agriculture. See Oregon Statutes 621.003
• 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
• 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 retailer: means a person who freezes or makes frozen desserts for direct sale to or use by a consumer. See Oregon Statutes 621.003
• infected herd: means a herd of cows, sheep or goats in which one or more reactor animals have been discovered by any test authorized by law and that has not regained its disease-free status following the slaughter of the reactor animals and retesting of the herd as prescribed by the department. See Oregon Statutes 621.003
• Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
• 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.
• Milk: means the lacteal secretion of cows, sheep and goats. See Oregon Statutes 621.003
• Milk hauler: means a person who, in the course of employment, accepts bulk fluid milk and transports that commodity to a dairy products plant or a physical facility of a distributor or producer-distributor. See Oregon Statutes 621.003
• Person: includes individuals, corporations, associations, firms, partnerships, limited liability companies and joint stock companies. See Oregon Statutes 174.100
• 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
• 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.
• United States: includes territories, outlying possessions and the District of Columbia. See Oregon Statutes 174.100