USA Statutes : nevada
Title : Title 02 - CIVIL PRACTICE
Chapter : CHAPTER 10 - GENERAL PROVISIONS
 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)
 “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)
 “Month” means a calendar month,
unless otherwise expressed.

      [Part 1911 CPA § 533; RL § 5475; NCL § 9022]—(NRS A 1977, 181;
1985, 499)
 “Oath” includes affirmation or
declaration.

      [Part 1911 CPA § 533; RL § 5475; NCL § 9022]—(NRS A 1977, 181;
1985, 499)
 “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)
 “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)
 “Property” includes both real and
personal property.

      [Part 1911 CPA § 533; RL § 5475; NCL § 9022]—(NRS A 1977, 181;
1985, 499)
 “Real property” is
coextensive with lands, tenements and hereditaments.

      [Part 1911 CPA § 533; RL § 5475; NCL § 9022]—(NRS A 1977, 181;
1985, 499)
 “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)
 “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)
 “Will” includes a codicil.

      [Part 1911 CPA § 533; RL § 5475; NCL § 9022]—(NRS A 1977, 181;
1985, 499)
 “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)
 “Writing” includes printing and
typewriting.

      [Part 1911 CPA § 533; RL § 5475; NCL § 9022]—(NRS A 1977, 181;
1985, 499)
 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)
 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)
 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)
 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)
 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)