Title 19 · ORS Chapter 19
19.005, is the bill of exceptions. [Formerly 19.114] ����� 19.395 Time extensions for preparation of record. Extensions of time for the performance of any act in connection with the preparation of
Citation: ORS 19.005
Section: 19.005
19.005, is the bill of exceptions. [Formerly 19.114]
����� 19.395 Time extensions for preparation of record. Extensions of time for the performance of any act in connection with the preparation of the record may be granted only by the court to which the appeal is made and under such rules as that court may prescribe. [Formerly 19.095]
HEARINGS ON APPEALS
����� 19.400 Where appeals heard. An appeal taken from any circuit court in any county lying east of the Cascade Mountains, except Klamath and Lake, shall be heard at Pendleton, unless otherwise ordered by the Court of Appeals if it has jurisdiction of the cause or if the cause is before the Supreme Court unless otherwise stipulated between the parties. All other appeals to the Supreme Court or to the Court of Appeals shall be heard at Salem, unless other locations are designated under ORS 1.085 (2). [Formerly 19.118]
DISPOSITION OF APPEALS
(Certification of Appeal to Supreme Court)
����� 19.405 Certification of appeal to Supreme Court. (1) When the Court of Appeals has jurisdiction of an appeal, the court, through the Chief Judge and pursuant to appellate rules, may certify the appeal to the Supreme Court in lieu of disposition by the Court of Appeals. The Court of Appeals shall provide notice of certification to the parties to the appeal.
����� (2) The Supreme Court, by order entered within 20 days after the date of receiving certification of an appeal from the Court of Appeals under subsection (1) of this section, may accept or deny acceptance of the certified appeal. The Supreme Court, by order entered within that 20-day period, may extend by not more than 10 days the time for acceptance or denial of acceptance of the certified appeal. If the Supreme Court accepts a certified appeal, the Court of Appeals shall transmit the record of the case and the briefs of parties to the Supreme Court, the Supreme Court shall have jurisdiction of the cause, and the appeal shall be considered pending in the Supreme Court without additional notice of appeal, filing fee, undertaking or, except as the Supreme Court may require, briefs of parties. A certified appeal shall remain pending in the Court of Appeals before the Supreme Court accepts or denies acceptance, and if the Supreme Court denies acceptance or fails to accept or deny acceptance within the time provided for in this subsection. The Supreme Court shall provide notice of acceptance or denial of acceptance of certification to the parties to the appeal. [Formerly 19.210]
(Stipulated Dismissals and Settlements)
����� 19.410 Stipulated dismissals; settlement; effect of settlement on pending appeal. (1) An appellate court may dismiss an appeal at any time if the parties to the appeal stipulate to the dismissal.
����� (2) Dismissal of an appeal shall operate as an affirmance of the judgment being appealed if the appellate court so directs in the order of dismissal.
����� (3) If the parties to an appeal settle all or part of the matter on appeal, the trial court has jurisdiction to enter any orders or judgments that may be necessary to implement the settlement. If the settlement disposes of all issues on appeal, the appellate court may dismiss the appeal. If the settlement disposes of part of the issues on appeal, the appellate court may limit the scope of the appeal to the issues not disposed of by the settlement. [Formerly 19.111]
(Disposition on Merits)
����� 19.415 Scope of appellate review. (1) Except as provided in this section, upon an appeal in an action or proceeding, without regard to whether the action or proceeding was triable to the court or a jury, the scope of review shall be as provided in section 3, Article VII (Amended) of the Oregon Constitution.
����� (2) No judgment shall be reversed or modified except for error substantially affecting the rights of a party.
����� (3) Upon an appeal in an equitable action or proceeding, review by the Court of Appeals shall be as follows:
����� (a) Upon an appeal from a judgment in a proceeding for the termination of parental rights, the Court of Appeals shall try the cause anew upon the record; and
����� (b) Upon an appeal in an equitable action or proceeding other than an appeal from a judgment in a proceeding for the termination of parental rights, the Court of Appeals, acting in its sole discretion, may try the cause anew upon the record or make one or more factual findings anew upon the record.
����� (4) When the Court of Appeals has tried a cause anew upon the record or has made one or more factual findings anew upon the record, the Supreme Court may limit its review of the decision of the Court of Appeals to questions of law. [Formerly 19.125; 2003 c.576 �88; 2005 c.568 �27; 2009 c.231 �2]
����� 19.420 Action by appellate court on appeal; review of order granting new trial or judgment notwithstanding verdict; reversal upon loss or destruction of reporter�s notes or audio records. (1) Upon an appeal, the court to which the appeal is made may affirm, reverse or modify the judgment or part thereof appealed from as to any or all of the parties joining in the appeal, and may include in such decision any or all of the parties not joining in the appeal, except a codefendant of the appellant against whom a several judgment might have been given in the court below; and may, if necessary and proper, order a new trial.
����� (2) Where in the trial court a motion for judgment notwithstanding the verdict and a motion for a new trial were made in the alternative, and an appeal is taken from a judgment notwithstanding the verdict or an order granting a new trial, the court to which the appeal is made may consider the correctness of the ruling of the trial court on either or both motions if such ruling is assigned as erroneous in the brief of any party affected by the appeal, without the necessity of a cross-appeal.
����� (3) Whenever it appears that an appeal cannot be prosecuted, by reason of the loss or destruction, through no fault of the appellant, of the reporter�s notes or audio records, or of the exhibits or other matter necessary to the prosecution of the appeal, the judgment appealed from may be reversed and a new trial ordered as justice may require. [Formerly 19.130]
����� 19.425 Review of intermediate orders; directing restitution. Upon an appeal, the appellate court may review any intermediate order involving the merits or necessarily affecting the judgment appealed from; and when it reverses or modifies such judgment, may direct complete restitution of all property and rights lost thereby. [Formerly 19.140; 2003 c.576 �283]
����� 19.430 Review of trial court order granting a new trial on court�s own initiative. If an appeal is taken from an order of the trial court granting a new trial on its own initiative, the order shall be affirmed on appeal only on grounds set forth in the order or because of reversible error affirmatively appearing in the record. [Formerly 19.200]
����� 19.435 Memorandum decisions. The Supreme Court or the Court of Appeals may decide cases before it by means of memorandum decisions and shall prepare full opinions only in such cases as it deems proper. [Formerly 19.180]
(Attorney Fees and Penalties)
����� 19.440 Award of attorney fees authorized by statute. (1) If a statute of this state authorizes or requires an award of attorney fees to a party to a proceeding, but does not expressly authorize or require that award on appeal, judicial review or other appellate review of the decision in the proceeding, and does not expressly prohibit that award on an appeal, judicial review or other appellate review, the statute shall be construed as authorizing or requiring the award of attorney fees on appeal, judicial review or other appellate review of the decision in the proceeding, including any denial of a petition for review by the Supreme Court in the proceeding.
����� (2) If a statute of this state authorizes or requires an award of attorney fees to a party to a proceeding, but does not expressly authorize or require an award of attorney fees in a mandamus proceeding arising out of the original proceeding, the statute shall be construed as authorizing or requiring the award of attorney fees in the mandamus proceeding.
����� (3) The provisions of this section apply to statutes that authorize or require the award of attorney fees in administrative proceedings in addition to statutes that authorize or require the award of attorney fees in civil proceedings in courts. [Formerly 19.220; 2011 c.513 �1]
����� 19.445 Damages upon affirmance of judgment. Whenever a judgment is affirmed on appeal, and it is for recovery of money, or personal property or the value thereof, the judgment shall be given for 10 percent of the amount thereof, for damages for the delay, unless it appears evident to the appellate court that there was probable cause for taking the appeal. [Formerly 19.160; 2003 c.576 �284]
(Appellate Judgment)
����� 19.450 Appellate judgment; when effective; effect of entry in trial court register; effect on judgment lien. (1) As used in this section:
����� (a) �Appellate judgment� means the decision of the Court of Appeals or Supreme Court, or such portion of the decision as may be specified by the rule of the Supreme Court or the Court of Appeals, together with an award of attorney fees or allowance of costs and disbursements, if any.
����� (b) �Decision� means a memorandum opinion, an opinion indicating the author or an order denying or dismissing an appeal issued by the Court of Appeals or the Supreme Court. The decision shall state the court�s disposition of the judgment being appealed, and may provide for final disposition of the cause. The decision shall designate the prevailing party or parties, state whether a party or parties will be allowed costs and disbursements, and if so, by whom the costs and disbursements will be paid.
����� (2) As to appeals from circuit and tax courts, the appellate judgment is effective when a copy of the appellate judgment is entered in the court�s register and sent by the State Court Administrator to the court from which the appeal was taken. When the State Court Administrator sends a copy of the appellate judgment to the court from which the appeal was taken, the administrator also shall send a copy to the parties to the appeal.
����� (3) If a new trial is ordered, upon the receipt of the appellate judgment by the trial court administrator for the court below, the trial court administrator shall enter the appellate court�s decision in the register of the court below and thereafter the cause shall be deemed pending for trial in such court, according to the directions of the court which rendered the decision. If a new trial is not ordered, upon the receipt of the appellate judgment by the trial court administrator, a judgment shall be entered in the register according to the directions of the court which rendered the decision, in like manner and with like effect as if the same was given in the court below.
����� (4) A party entitled to enforce an undertaking may obtain judgment against a surety by filing a request with the State Court Administrator and serving a copy of the request on the other parties and the surety. The request must identify the surety against whom judgment is to be entered and the amount of the judgment sought to be imposed against the surety. Unless otherwise directed by the appellate court, upon receiving the request the State Court Administrator shall include in the appellate judgment a judgment against the surety in the amount specified.
����� (5) If the appellate judgment terminating an appeal contains a judgment against a surety for an undertaking, the trial court administrator shall enter the judgment against the surety in like manner and with like effect as if the judgment was given in the court below.
����� (6) Except as provided in ORS 18.154, an appeal does not discharge the lien of a judgment and unless the judgment is reversed, the lien of the judgment merges with and continues in the affirmed or modified judgment given on appeal, from the time of the entry of the judgment in the court below. The lien of any judgment created by recording a certified copy of the judgment or a lien record abstract continues in force in the same manner as the original judgment lien as provided in this subsection. [Formerly 19.190; 1999 c.367 �16; 2003 c.576 �89; 2025 c.256 �4]
MISCELLANEOUS
����� 19.500 Service of documents under provisions of chapter. Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, when any provision of this chapter requires that a document be served and filed, the document shall be served in the manner provided in ORCP 9 B on all other parties who have appeared in the action, suit or proceeding and who are not represented by the same counsel as the party serving the document, and shall be filed, with proof of service indorsed thereon, with the trial court administrator. [Formerly 19.104; 2007 c.129 �10]
����� 19.510 Powers of successor trial judge with respect to appeals. In case of death, resignation, expiration of the term of office or vacancy in office for any other cause of the judge before whom the matter was tried, or in case illness or other cause prevents the judge from performing the duties of judge, a successor in office or any other judge assigned to perform the duties of the judge, may take any action with respect to the appeal which the judge who tried it could take. [Formerly