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Oregon Revised Statutes Chapter 67 § 67.040 — Knowledge and notice

Oregon Revised Statutes Chapter 67 ·
Oregon Code § 67.040 · Enacted · Last updated March 01, 2026
Statute Text
Knowledge and notice. (1) A person knows a fact if the person has actual knowledge of it. (2) A person has notice of a fact if the person: (a) Knows of it; (b) Has received a notification of it; or (c) Has reason to know it exists from all the facts known to the person at the time in question. (3) A person notifies or gives notification to another by taking steps reasonably required to inform the other person in the ordinary course, whether or not the other person learns of it. (4) A person receives a notification when the notification: (a) Comes to the person’s attention; or (b) Is addressed to the person and is duly delivered at the person’s place of business or at any other place held out by the person as a place for receiving communications. (5) Except as provided in subsection (6) of this section, a person other than an individual knows, has notice or receives a notification of a fact for purposes of a particular transaction when the individual conducting the transaction knows, has notice or receives a notification of the fact, or in any event when the fact would have been brought to the individual’s attention if the person had exercised reasonable diligence. (6) A partner’s knowledge, notice or receipt of a notification of a fact relating to the partnership is effective immediately as knowledge by, notice to or receipt of a notification by the partnership, except in the case of a fraud on the partnership committed by or with the consent of that partner. [Formerly 67.010]
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