Title 3, Remedies and Special Actions and Proceedings

(1) In the case of a change, by court order, of the name of the parents of any minor child, if the child’s record of live birth is on file in this state, the State Registrar of the Center for Health Statistics, upon receipt of a certified copy of the court order changing the name…

When a minor child applies for a change of name under ORS 33.410, the court may, upon its own motion, confer with the child and may exclude from the conference the parents and other persons if the court finds that such action would be in the best interests of the child. However, …

(1) Application for legal change of sex of a person may be heard and determined by any circuit court in this state. A circuit court may order a legal change of sex and enter a judgment indicating the change of sex if the individual attests that the individual has undergone surgic…

The surety or the representatives of any surety upon the bond of any trustee, committee, guardian, assignee, receiver, executor, administrator or other fiduciary, and any irrevocable letter of credit issuer for any trustee, committee, guardian, assignee, receiver, executor, admin…

Any trustee, committee, guardian, assignee, receiver, executor, administrator or other fiduciary shall be entitled to have any surety on the bond of the fiduciary or of any irrevocable letter of credit issuer discharged from liability thereon, and the fiduciary may file a new bon…

(1) When a bond or an irrevocable letter of credit of any personal representative, guardian or conservator is terminated upon the issuance of a new bond or irrevocable letter of credit to the personal representative, guardian or conservator by a new surety or letter of credit iss…

In the administration of a decedent’s estate, or whenever the assets of any person, partnership or corporation are being administered in receivership or any liquidation proceedings, or under an assignment for the benefit of creditors, the value of securities held by secured credi…

(1) As used in this section and ORS 33.720, unless the context requires otherwise: (a) “Governing body” means the city council, board of commissioners, board of directors, county court or other managing board of a municipal corporation, including a board managing a municipally ow…

(1) The determination authorized by ORS 33.710 shall be in the nature of a proceeding in rem; and the practice and procedure therein shall follow the practice and procedure of an action not triable by right to a jury, as far as the same is consistent with the determination sought…

As used in ORS 33.850 to 33.875: (1) “Annuity issuer” means an insurer that has entered into a contract to fund periodic payments under a structured settlement agreement. (2) “Independent professional advice” means advice of an attorney, certified public accountant, actuary, fina…

(1) A payee may transfer payment rights under ORS 33.850 to 33.875 if: (a) The payee is domiciled in this state; (b) The domicile or principal place of business of the obligor or the annuity issuer is located in this state; (c) The structured settlement agreement was approved by …

(1) A petition for approval of a transfer of payment rights filed under ORS 33.855 must: (a) Include the payee’s name, age and county of residence. (b) Describe the financial terms of the proposed transfer, including the payment rights to be transferred by the payee and the amoun…

Not less than 14 days before a payee signs a transfer agreement, a transferee shall provide the payee with a disclosure statement in not less than 14-point type that sets forth: (1) The amounts and due dates of the structured settlement payments to be transferred. (2) The aggrega…

At the hearing on a petition to transfer payment rights filed under ORS 33.855, the court or responsible administrative authority may ask the payee to provide testimony on or other evidence related to the following matters and any other relevant evidence that the court or authori…

(1) A transfer of payment rights under ORS 33.850 to 33.875 is not effective and an obligor or annuity issuer is not required to make any payments directly or indirectly to a transferee unless the transferee has filed a petition under ORS 33.857 and the transfer is approved by th…

Following a transfer of payment rights under ORS 33.850 to 33.875: (1) The obligor and the annuity issuer shall, as to all parties except the transferee, be discharged and released from all liability for the transferred payments. (2) The transferee shall be liable to the obligor …

(1) The provisions of ORS 33.850 to 33.875 may not be waived by any payee. (2) A transfer agreement entered into on or after January 1, 2006, by a payee who resides in this state shall provide that disputes under the transfer agreement, including any claim that the payee has brea…

The writ heretofore known as the writ of certiorari is known in these statutes as the writ of review.

Except for a proceeding resulting in a land use decision or limited land use decision as defined in ORS 197.015, for which review is provided in ORS 197.830 to 197.845, any party to any process or proceeding before or by any inferior court, officer, or tribunal may have the decis…

(1) Except as provided in subsection (2) of this section, the writ shall be allowed by the circuit court, or, in counties where the county court has judicial functions, by the county court wherein the decision or determination sought to be reviewed was made, upon the petition of …

(1) The writ shall be allowed in all cases in which a substantial interest of a plaintiff has been injured and an inferior court including an officer or tribunal other than an agency as defined in ORS 183.310 (1) in the exercise of judicial or quasi-judicial functions appears to …

Before allowing the writ, the court shall require the plaintiff to give an undertaking to its approval, with one or more sureties, in the sum of $100, to the effect that the plaintiff will pay all costs and disbursements that may be adjudged to the defendant on the review. [Amend…

The writ shall be directed to the court, officer, or tribunal whose decision or determination is sought to be reviewed, or to the clerk or other person having the custody of its records or proceedings, requiring return of the writ to the circuit court, with a certified copy of th…

In the discretion of the court issuing the writ, the writ may contain a requirement that the defendant desist from further proceedings in the matter to be reviewed, whereupon the proceedings shall be stayed accordingly. [Amended by 1977 c.515 §4; 1979 c.772 §10]

Upon the filing of the order allowing the writ, and the petition and undertaking of the plaintiff, the clerk shall issue the writ, as ordered. The writ shall be served by delivering the original, according to the direction thereof, and may be served by any person authorized to se…

If the return to the writ is incomplete, the court may order a further return to be made.

Upon the review, the court shall have power to affirm, modify, reverse or annul the decision or determination reviewed, and if necessary, to award restitution to the plaintiff, or to direct the inferior court, officer, or tribunal to proceed in the matter reviewed according to it…

(1) As used in this section, “municipal corporation” means a county, city, district or other municipal corporation or public corporation organized for a public purpose, including a cooperative body formed between municipal corporations. (2) Except for a proceeding resulting in a …

As used in ORS 34.105 to 34.240: (1) “Adverse party” means a beneficially interested party to a judicial or administrative proceeding from which a mandamus proceeding arises, whose interests are adverse to the relator. (2) “Counsel for defendant” means the attorney who appears on…

A writ of mandamus may be issued to any inferior court, corporation, board, officer or person, to compel the performance of an act which the law specially enjoins, as a duty resulting from an office, trust or station; but though the writ may require such court, corporation, board…

(1) Except as provided in subsection (2) of this section, the circuit court or judge of the circuit court of the county in which the defendant, if a public officer or body, exercises functions, or if a private person or corporation, in which such person resides or may be found, o…

(1) The relator shall file a petition for a writ of mandamus with the clerk of the court or court administrator. (2) The relator shall serve a copy of the petition on the defendant and, if the mandamus proceeding arises from a judicial or administrative proceeding, on all parties…

(1) The writ shall be directed to the court, corporation, board, officer or person designated in the order of allowance, and may be served thereon, by any person authorized to serve a summons, by delivery of the original to such officer or person, or to any member of such court, …

(1) The writ shall be either alternative or peremptory. (2) When in the alternative, the writ shall: (a) State concisely the facts, according to the petition, showing: (A) The obligation of the defendant to perform the act; and (B) The omission of the defendant to perform the act…

When the right to require the performance of the act is clear, and it is apparent that no valid excuse can be given for not performing it, a peremptory mandamus shall be allowed in the first instance; in all other cases, the alternative writ shall be first issued.

On the return day of the alternative writ, or such further day as the court or judge thereof may allow, the defendant on whom the writ was served may show cause by motion to dismiss or answer to the writ, in the same manner as to a complaint in an action. [Amended by 1979 c.284 §…

If the defendant does not show cause by motion to dismiss or answer, a peremptory mandamus shall be allowed against the defendant. If the answer contains new matter, the same may be moved against or replied to by the plaintiff, within such time as the court or judge may prescribe…

The pleadings in the proceeding by mandamus are those mentioned in ORS 34.170 and 34.180, and none other are allowed. They are to have the same effect and construction, and may be amended in the same manner, as pleadings in an action. Either party may move to strike out, or be al…

In the Supreme Court the writ may be allowed by the court or any judge thereof, but shall only be tried and determined by the court. All issues therein shall be tried by the court. [Amended by 1965 c.6 §11; 2005 c.22 §27; 2015 c.212 §14]

(1) If the court orders issuance of a peremptory writ of mandamus, the relator shall recover from the defendant damages which the relator has sustained from a false return, to be ascertained in the same manner as in an action. (2) The court in its discretion may designate a preva…

A recovery of damages by virtue of ORS 34.210 against a party who has made a return to a writ of mandamus is a bar to any other action or suit against the same party for the same cause.

Whenever a peremptory mandamus is directed to a public officer or body commanding the performance of any public duty specially enjoined by law, if it appears to the court or judge thereof that the officer or any member of the body has without just excuse refused or neglected to p…

From the judgment of the circuit court or Oregon Tax Court, or judge thereof, refusing to allow a mandamus, or directing a peremptory mandamus, an appeal may be taken in like manner and with like effect as in an action. [Amended by 1965 c.6 §12; 1973 c.197 §3] (Mandamus Under Sup…

(1) The provisions of this section apply only to the exercise of the Supreme Court’s original jurisdiction in mandamus proceedings that challenge the actions of judges in particular cases in the circuit courts, the Oregon Tax Court or the Court of Appeals. The provisions of this …

The writ of habeas corpus ad subjiciendum is the writ designated in ORS 34.310 to 34.730, and every other writ of habeas corpus is abolished. Every person imprisoned or otherwise restrained of liberty, within this state, except in the cases specified in ORS 34.330, may prosecute …

The circuit court of the judicial district wherein the party is imprisoned or restrained, and, if vested with power to exercise judicial functions, the county court and county judge of the county wherein the party is imprisoned or restrained, shall have concurrent jurisdiction of…

A person may not prosecute a writ of habeas corpus if: (1) The person is imprisoned or restrained by virtue of process issued by a court of the United States, or a judge, commissioner or other officer thereof, in cases where such courts, or judges or officers thereof, have exclus…

The writ shall be allowed by the court or judge thereof upon the petition of the party for whose relief it is intended, or of some other person in behalf of the party, signed and verified by the oath of the plaintiff, to the effect that the plaintiff believes it to be true. The p…

Whenever a writ of habeas corpus is required in any action, suit or proceeding, civil or criminal, to which the state is a party, the application therefor may be made by the district attorney having charge thereof, and whenever so issued the court or judge shall state in the orde…

If counsel is appointed by a court to represent, in an initial proceeding by habeas corpus or on appeal as provided in ORS 34.710, a person who is imprisoned or otherwise restrained of liberty by virtue of a charge or conviction of crime and who is determined to be financially el…