Court Opinion

ID: 9549263
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-07 18:15:29.880099+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:20:02.473532
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THORNTON, J.,
specially concurring.
I agree that Renard v. Allen, 237 Or 406, 391 P2d 777 (1969), dictates the result reached in the majority opinion. In my view, however, a vendor’s lien under a land sales contract should be enforceable only through judicial proceedings, absent a voluntary relinquishment by the vendee of his rights in the subject property. For the reasons more fully explained by Buttler, P. J., in his decision in Braunstein v. Trottier, 54 Or App 687, 635 P2d 1379 (1981), rev den 292 Or 568 (1982), it is my opinion that on principle a purchaser under a land sale contract should be entitled to the same benefits to which he would have been entitled in a strict foreclosure proceeding.