Nevada Revised Statutes 104A.2528 – Lessor’s damages for nonacceptance, failure to pay, repudiation or other default
1. Except as otherwise provided with respect to damages liquidated in the lease agreement (NRS 104A.2504) or otherwise determined pursuant to agreement of the parties (NRS 104.1302 and 104A.2503), if a lessor elects to retain the goods or a lessor elects to dispose of the goods and the disposition is by lease agreement that for any reason does not qualify for treatment under subsection 2 of NRS 104A.2527, or is by sale or otherwise, the lessor may recover from the lessee as damages for a default of the type described in subsection 1 or paragraph (a) of subsection 3 of NRS 104A.2523, or, if agreed, for other default of the lessee:
Terms Used In Nevada Revised Statutes 104A.2528
- Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
- Goods: means all things that are movable at the time of identification to the lease contract, or are fixtures (NRS 104A. See Nevada Revised Statutes 104A.2103
- Lease: means a transfer of the right to possession and use of goods for a term in return for consideration, but a sale, including a sale on approval or a sale or return, or retention or creation of a security interest is not a lease. See Nevada Revised Statutes 104A.2103
- Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). Source: OCC
- Lease agreement: means the bargain, with respect to the lease, of the lessor and the lessee in fact as found in their language or by implication from other circumstances including course of dealing or usage of trade or course of performance as provided in this Article. See Nevada Revised Statutes 104A.2103
- Lessee: means a person who acquires the right to possession and use of goods under a lease. See Nevada Revised Statutes 104A.2103
- Lessor: means a person who transfers the right to possession and use of goods under a lease. See Nevada Revised Statutes 104A.2103
- Present value: means the amount as of a date certain of one or more sums payable in the future, discounted to the date certain. See Nevada Revised Statutes 104A.2103
(a) Accrued and unpaid rent as of the date of default if the lessee has never taken possession of the goods, or, if the lessee has taken possession of the goods, as of the date the lessor repossesses the goods or an earlier date on which the lessee makes a tender of the goods to the lessor;
(b) The present value as of the date determined under paragraph (a) of the total rent for the then remaining lease term of the original lease agreement minus the present value as of the same date of the market rent at the place where the goods are located computed for the same lease term; and
(c) Any incidental damages allowed under NRS 104A.2530, less expenses saved in consequence of the lessee’s default.
2. If the measure of damages provided in subsection 1 is inadequate to put a lessor in as good a position as performance would have, the measure of damages is the present value of the profit, including reasonable overhead, the lessor would have made from full performance by the lessee, together with any incidental damages allowed under NRS 104A.2530, due allowance for costs reasonably incurred and due credit for payments or proceeds of disposition.