Nevada Revised Statutes 340.030 – Definitions
The following terms whenever used or referred to in this chapter shall have the following respective meanings, unless a different meaning clearly appears from the context:
Terms Used In Nevada Revised Statutes 340.030
- Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
- county: includes Carson City. See Nevada Revised Statutes 0.033
- Equitable: Pertaining to civil suits in "equity" rather than in "law." In English legal history, the courts of "law" could order the payment of damages and could afford no other remedy. See damages. A separate court of "equity" could order someone to do something or to cease to do something. See, e.g., injunction. In American jurisprudence, the federal courts have both legal and equitable power, but the distinction is still an important one. For example, a trial by jury is normally available in "law" cases but not in "equity" cases. Source: U.S. Courts
- Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
- Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
1. ’Authorized corporation‘ means any corporation or association engaged or about to engage in any public works project, as herein defined, for a public use; but the construction of the public works project and its conduct thereafter by the corporation or association shall be subject to regulation or supervision by a federal agency, as herein defined, or a state public body, as herein defined, whether by virtue of an agreement, provision of law or otherwise.
2. ’Court’ means the court in which jurisdiction over proceedings hereunder is vested by the provisions of NRS 340.040.
3. ’Federal agency’ means the United States of America, or any agency or instrumentality, corporate or otherwise, of the United States of America.
4. ’Petitioner’ means the one by whom proceedings for the acquisition of real property, as herein defined, are instituted hereunder pursuant to the provisions of NRS 340.040.
5. ’Public works project’ means any work or undertaking which is financed in whole or in part by a federal agency, as herein defined, or by a state public body, as herein defined.
6. ’Real property’ or ‘property’ or ‘lands’ includes all lands, including improvements and fixtures thereon, lands under water, all easements and hereditaments, corporeal or incorporeal, and every estate, interest and right, legal or equitable, in lands or water, and all rights, interests, privileges, easements, encumbrances, and franchises relating to the same, including terms for years and liens by way of judgment, mortgage or otherwise.
7. ’State public body’ means this State or any county, city, town, municipal corporation, authority, or any other subdivision, agency or instrumentality, corporate or otherwise, thereof.