If a guardian, conservator or tenant in severalty, or in common, for life or for years of real property commits waste thereon, any person injured thereby may maintain an action at law for damages against the guardian, conservator or tenant. In the action there may be judgment for treble damages, forfeiture of the estate of the party committing or permitting the waste and eviction from the property. Forfeiture and eviction shall only be given in favor of the person entitled to a reversion against the tenant in possession, when the injury to the estate in reversion is determined in the action to be equal to the value of the tenant’s estate or unexpired term, or when the waste was committed with malice.
ORS 105.805
Applied in 8 court decisions — leading case Catellus Development Corp. v. L.D. McFarland Co. (1995)
Most recently applied in 180 F. Supp. 3d 745 - Ross Dress for Less, Inc. v. Makarios-Oregon, LLC (March 2016)
Amended by 1973 c.823 §103
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