Title 2 - CIVIL PRACTICE CHAPTER 10 - GENERAL PROVISIONS NRS 10.010 Definitions. NRS 10.015 “Affinity” defined. NRS 10.025 “Month” defined. NRS 10.035 “Oath” defined. NRS 10.045 “Personal property” defined. NRS 10.055 “Process” defined. NRS 10.065 “Property” defined. NRS 10.075 “Real property” defined. NRS 10.085 “State” defined. NRS 10.095 “United States” defined. NRS 10.105 “Will” defined. NRS 10.115 “Writ” defined. NRS 10.125 “Writing” defined. NRS 10.135 Interpretation. NRS 10.145 Signature by mark. NRS 10.155 Legal residence. NRS 10.165 Performance of secular acts. NRS 10.175 Seals of courts and public offices: Impressions on documents. _________ NRS 10.010 Definitions. As used in this title, unless the context otherwise requires, the words and terms defined in NRS 10.015 to 10.125, inclusive, have the meanings ascribed to them in those sections. [Part 1911 CPA § 533; RL § 5475; NCL § 9022]—(NRS A 1977, 181; 1985, 499) NRS 10.015 “Affinity” defined. “Affinity” when applied to the marriage relation signifies the connection existing in consequence of marriage between each of the married persons and the blood relatives of the other. [Part 1911 CPA § 533; RL § 5475; NCL § 9022]—(NRS A 1977, 181; 1985, 499) NRS 10.025 “Month” defined. “Month” means a calendar month, unless otherwise expressed. [Part 1911 CPA § 533; RL § 5475; NCL § 9022]—(NRS A 1977, 181; 1985, 499) NRS 10.035 “Oath” defined. “Oath” includes affirmation or declaration. [Part 1911 CPA § 533; RL § 5475; NCL § 9022]—(NRS A 1977, 181; 1985, 499) NRS 10.045 “Personal property” defined. “Personal property” includes money, goods, chattels, things in action and evidences of debt. [Part 1911 CPA § 533; RL § 5475; NCL § 9022]—(NRS A 1977, 181; 1985, 499) NRS 10.055 “Process” defined. “Process” signifies a writ or summons in the course of judicial proceedings. [Part 1911 CPA § 533; RL § 5475; NCL § 9022]—(NRS A 1977, 181; 1985, 499) NRS 10.065 “Property” defined. “Property” includes both real and personal property. [Part 1911 CPA § 533; RL § 5475; NCL § 9022]—(NRS A 1977, 181; 1985, 499) NRS 10.075 “Real property” defined. “Real property” is coextensive with lands, tenements and hereditaments. [Part 1911 CPA § 533; RL § 5475; NCL § 9022]—(NRS A 1977, 181; 1985, 499) NRS 10.085 “State” defined. “State” when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories. [Part 1911 CPA § 533; RL § 5475; NCL § 9022]—(NRS A 1977, 181; 1985, 499) NRS 10.095 “United States” defined. “United States” may include the District of Columbia and territories or insular possessions. [Part 1911 CPA § 533; RL § 5475; NCL § 9022]—(NRS A 1977, 181; 1985, 499) NRS 10.105 “Will” defined. “Will” includes a codicil. [Part 1911 CPA § 533; RL § 5475; NCL § 9022]—(NRS A 1977, 181; 1985, 499) NRS 10.115 “Writ” defined. “Writ” signifies an order or precept in writing, issued in the name of the State or of a court or judicial officer. [Part 1911 CPA § 533; RL § 5475; NCL § 9022]—(NRS A 1977, 181; 1985, 499) NRS 10.125 “Writing” defined. “Writing” includes printing and typewriting. [Part 1911 CPA § 533; RL § 5475; NCL § 9022]—(NRS A 1977, 181; 1985, 499) NRS 10.135 Interpretation. As used in this title, every mode of oral statement, under oath or affirmation, is embraced by the term “testify,” and every written one in the term “depose.” [Part 1911 CPA § 533; RL § 5475; NCL § 9022]—(NRS A 1977, 181; 1985, 499) NRS 10.145 Signature by mark. As used in this title, signature or subscription includes mark when the person cannot write, his name being written near it by a person who writes his own name as a witness; but when a signature is by mark it must, in order that it may be acknowledged or may serve as the signature to any sworn statement, be witnessed by two persons who must subscribe their own names as witnesses thereto. [Part 1911 CPA § 533; RL § 5475; NCL § 9022]—(NRS A 1977, 181; 1985, 499) NRS 10.155 Legal residence. Unless otherwise provided by specific statute, the legal residence of a person with reference to his right of naturalization, right to maintain or defend any suit at law or in equity, or any other right dependent on residence, is that place where he has been physically present within the State or county, as the case may be, during all of the period for which residence is claimed by him. Should any person absent himself from the jurisdiction of his residence with the intention in good faith to return without delay and continue his residence, the time of such absence is not considered in determining the fact of residence. [Part 1:158:1911; RL § 3609; NCL § 6405]—(NRS A 1981, 1861)—(Substituted in revision for NRS 10.020) NRS 10.165 Performance of secular acts. Whenever any act of a secular nature, other than a work of necessity or mercy, is appointed by law or contract to be performed upon a particular day, which day falls upon a holiday or a nonjudicial day, it may be performed upon the next business day with the same effect as if it had been performed upon the day appointed; and if such act is to be performed at a particular hour it may be performed at the same hour of the next business day. [1:61:1913; 1919 RL p. 3351; NCL § 9408]—(Substituted in revision for NRS 10.030) NRS 10.175 Seals of courts and public offices: Impressions on documents. A seal of a court or public office, when required to any writ or process or proceeding, or to authenticate a copy of any record or document, may be impressed with wax, wafer, or any other substance, and then attached to the writ, process or proceeding, or to the copy of the record or document, or it may be impressed on the paper alone. [1911 CPA § 539; RL § 5481; NCL § 9028]—(Substituted in revision for NRS 10.040) CHAPTER 11 - LIMITATION OF ACTIONS GENERAL PROVISIONS NRS 11.010 Commencement of civil actions. NRS 11.020 Effect of laws of limitation of other states or countries. REAL PROPERTY NRS 11.030 When action cannot be brought by grantee from this State. NRS 11.040 When actions by State or its grantees are to be brought within 7 years. NRS 11.060 Action for recovery of mining claims: Occupation and possession; other applicable provisions. NRS 11.070 No cause of action effectual unless party or predecessor seized or possessed within 5 years. NRS 11.080 Seisin within 5 years; when necessary in action for real property. NRS 11.090 Peaceable entry; when not valid as claim. NRS 11.100 Possession presumed in legal owner unless adversely held. NRS 11.110 Occupation under written instrument or judgment; when deemed adverse. NRS 11.120 What constitutes adverse possession under written instrument or judgment. NRS 11.130 Premises actually occupied under claim of title deemed to be held adversely. NRS 11.140 What constitutes adverse possession under claim of title not founded on written instrument. NRS 11.150 Additional requirements for adverse possession: Occupation continuously for 5 years; payment of taxes. NRS 11.160 Relation of landlord and tenant as affecting adverse possession. NRS 11.170 Right of possession not affected by descent cast. NRS 11.180 Certain disabilities excluded from time to commence actions. ACTIONS OTHER THAN FOR THE RECOVERY OF REAL PROPERTY NRS 11.190

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