USA Statutes : nevada
Title : Title 06 - JUSTICE COURTS AND CIVIL PROCEDURE THEREIN
Chapter : CHAPTER 64 - GENERAL PROVISIONS

 Justice Courts being courts of peculiar and limited jurisdiction, only
those provisions of titles 2, 3 and 4 which are, in their nature,
applicable to the organization, powers and course of proceedings in
Justice Courts or which have been made applicable by special provisions
of NRS, are applicable to Justice Courts and the proceedings therein.

      [1911 CPA § 873; RL § 5815; NCL § 9362]
 As used in this title, unless the context
otherwise requires, the words and terms defined in NRS 64.030 to 64.140 ,
inclusive, have the meanings ascribed to them in those sections.

      [Part 1911 CPA § 533; RL § 5475; NCL § 9022]—(NRS A 1977, 183;
1985, 501)
 “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, 183;
1985, 501)
 “Month” means a calendar month,
unless otherwise expressed.

      [Part 1911 CPA § 533; RL § 5475; NCL § 9022]—(NRS A 1977, 183;
1985, 501)
 “Oath” includes affirmation or
declaration.

      [Part 1911 CPA § 533; RL § 5475; NCL § 9022]—(NRS A 1977, 183;
1985, 501)
 “Personal property”
includes money, goods, chattels, things in action and evidences of debt.

      [Part 1911 CPA § 533; RL § 5475; NCL § 9022]—(NRS A 1977, 183;
1985, 501)
 “Process” signifies a writ or
summons in the course of judicial proceedings.

      [Part 1911 CPA § 533; RL § 5475; NCL § 9022]—(NRS A 1977, 183;
1985, 501)
 “Property” includes both real and
personal property.

      [Part 1911 CPA § 533; RL § 5475; NCL § 9022]—(NRS A 1977, 183;
1985, 501)
 “Real property” is
coextensive with lands, tenements and hereditaments.

      [Part 1911 CPA § 533; RL § 5475; NCL § 9022]—(NRS A 1977, 183;
1985, 501)
 “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, 183;
1985, 501)
 “United States” may include
the District of Columbia and territories or insular possessions.

      [Part 1911 CPA § 533; RL § 5475; NCL § 9022]—(NRS A 1977, 183;
1985, 501)
 “Will” includes a codicil.

      [Part 1911 CPA § 533; RL § 5475; NCL § 9022]—(NRS A 1977, 183;
1985, 501)
 “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, 183;
1985, 501)
 “Writing” includes printing and
typewriting.

      [Part 1911 CPA § 533; RL § 5475; NCL § 9022]—(NRS A 1977, 183;
1985, 501)
 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, 183;
1985, 501)
 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, 183;
1985, 501)