Property Disputes in Court

We represent landowners, as plaintiffs and as defendants, in lawsuits over easements, access, boundaries, title and water, and in claims for damage to property.

We bring and defend claims for quiet title, partition, ejectment and declaratory judgment, and ask for injunctions against a trespass or a locked gate. We also bring and defend claims for money damages: trespass, timber trespass, waste, and damage to crops, fences, buildings and irrigation works.

We put the deeds, surveys, water right certificates and aerial photographs in evidence, with maps we prepare from them, and we work with the surveyors, appraisers and engineers who testify.

Our work on these problems before a lawsuit is described under Property.

Services we provide

• Quiet title, partition and ejectment
• Injunctions and declaratory judgments
• Trespass, timber trespass and waste
• Property damage claims

Statutes and rules

• Oregon Rules of Civil Procedureone form of civil action for legal and equitable claims alike (ORCP 2), so that both are tried in one case.
• ORS chapter 105, Property Rightsthe property actions: ejectment, quiet title, partition, waste and timber trespass.
• ORS chapter 28, Declaratory Judgmentsthe action that asks the court to declare what a deed, an easement or a contract means.
• ORS chapter 20, Attorney Fees; Costs and Disbursementsattorney fees are recovered only where a statute or the contract provides for them; a contract fee clause runs both ways (ORS 20.096).