75th OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2009 Regular Session
 
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LC 1416
 
                         Senate Bill 284
 
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  President of the Senate in conformance with presession filing
  rules, indicating neither advocacy nor opposition on the part
  of the President (at the request of Senate Interim Committee on
  Judiciary)
 
 
                             SUMMARY
 
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measure and is not a part of the body thereof subject to
consideration by the Legislative Assembly. It is an editor's
brief statement of the essential features of the measure as
introduced.
 
  Clarifies that rules for procedural matters in justice court
civil actions are same as rules prescribed for civil actions in
circuit courts.
 
                        A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to civil actions; amending ORS 52.030.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
  SECTION 1. ORS 52.030 is amended to read:
  52.030. The rules in justice courts governing mistakes in
pleadings and amendments thereof, vacating defaults and judgments
for mistake, inadvertence, surprise or excusable neglect, the
formation of issues of both law and fact, the postponing of
trials for cause shown, the mode of trial, the formation of the
jury, the conduct and manner of trial by jury or by the justice
without a jury, the procedure regarding the verdict and judgment
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of judgments + } by execution  { + and any other procedural
matter + }   { - shall be - }  { +  are the same + } as  { + the
rules + } prescribed for civil actions in the circuit courts,
except as otherwise provided.
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