Terms Used In Nevada Revised Statutes > Chapter 107A - Assignment of Rents (Uniform Act)

• Adjourn: A motion to adjourn a legislative chamber or a committee, if passed, ends that day's session.
• Administrator: means the Administrator of the Division. See Nevada Revised Statutes 381.001
• Administrator: means the Administrator of the Office. See Nevada Revised Statutes 383.011
• Advisory Board: means the Board of Museums and History. See Nevada Revised Statutes 383.011
• Afternoon: means the period of a day between noon and midnight. See Nevada Revised Statutes 104.4104
• Answer: The formal written statement by a defendant responding to a civil complaint and setting forth the grounds for defense.
• Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
• Bequest: Property gifted by will.
• Board: means the Board of Museums and History. See Nevada Revised Statutes 381.001
• Chambers: A judge's office.
• Charter school: means a public school that is formed pursuant to the provisions of chapter 388A of NRS. See Nevada Revised Statutes 385.007
• Commission: means the Commission for Cultural Centers and Historic Preservation created by NRS 383. See Nevada Revised Statutes 383.011
• Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• 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.
• counselor: means a person who holds a license issued pursuant to chapter 391 of NRS and an endorsement to serve as a school counselor issued pursuant to regulations adopted by the Commission on Professional Standards in Education or who is otherwise authorized by the Superintendent of Public Instruction to serve as a school counselor. See Nevada Revised Statutes 385.007
• Cultural affiliation: has the meaning ascribed to it in NRS 381. See Nevada Revised Statutes 383.011
• Cultural resources: means any objects, sites or information of historic, prehistoric, archeological, architectural or paleontological significance. See Nevada Revised Statutes 383.011
• culturally affiliated: means that there is a relationship of shared group identity that may be reasonably traced historically or prehistorically between a present-day Indian tribe and an identifiable earlier group which is associated with a particular artifact or site. See Nevada Revised Statutes 381.001
• Decedent: A deceased person.
• Department: means the Department of Tourism and Cultural Affairs. See Nevada Revised Statutes 381.001
• Department: means the Department of Taxation. See Nevada Revised Statutes 360.001
• Department: means the State Department of Conservation and Natural Resources. See Nevada Revised Statutes 383.011
• Department: means the Department of Education. See Nevada Revised Statutes 385.007
• Devise: To gift property by will.
• Director: means the Director of the Department. See Nevada Revised Statutes 381.001
• Director: means the Director of the Department. See Nevada Revised Statutes 383.011
• Division: means the Division of Museums and History of the Department. See Nevada Revised Statutes 381.001
• Donor: The person who makes a gift.
• 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}
• Ex officio: Literally, by virtue of one's office.
• Executive Director: means the Executive Director of the Department of Taxation. See Nevada Revised Statutes 360.001
• Executor: A male person named in a will to carry out the decedent
• Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
• Funerary object: means an object that, as a part of the death rite or ceremony of an Indian tribe is reasonably believed to have been placed with individual prehistoric native Indian human remains either at the time of death or later. See Nevada Revised Statutes 381.001
• Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
• Guardian: A person legally empowered and charged with the duty of taking care of and managing the property of another person who because of age, intellect, or health, is incapable of managing his (her) own affairs.
• Historic: has the meaning ascribed to it in NRS 381. See Nevada Revised Statutes 381.001
• Indian tribe: has the meaning ascribed to it in NRS 383. See Nevada Revised Statutes 381.001
• Indian tribe: means any tribe, band, nation or other organized group or community of Indians which is recognized as eligible for the special programs and services provided by the United States to native Indians because of their status as native Indians. See Nevada Revised Statutes 383.011
• Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
• Institution: means an institution of the Division established pursuant to NRS 381. See Nevada Revised Statutes 381.001
• 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.
• 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}
• Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
• Mortgagee: The person to whom property is mortgaged and who has loaned the money.
• Museum director: means the executive director of an institution of the Division appointed by the Administrator pursuant to NRS 381. See Nevada Revised Statutes 381.001
• Oath: A promise to tell the truth.
• Office: means the Office of Historic Preservation of the Department. See Nevada Revised Statutes 383.011
• Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
• population: means the number of people in a specified area as determined by the last preceding national decennial census conducted by the Bureau of the Census of the United States Department of Commerce pursuant to Section 2 of Article I of the Constitution of the United States and reported by the Secretary of Commerce to the Governor pursuant to 13 U. See Nevada Revised Statutes 0.050
• Prehistoric: has the meaning ascribed to it in NRS 381. See Nevada Revised Statutes 381.001
• Prehistoric: has the meaning ascribed to it in NRS 381. See Nevada Revised Statutes 383.011
• Probate: Proving a will
• psychologist: means a person who holds a license issued pursuant to chapter 391 of NRS and an endorsement to serve as a school psychologist issued pursuant to regulations adopted by the Commission on Professional Standards in Education or who is otherwise authorized by the Superintendent of Public Instruction to serve as a school psychologist. See Nevada Revised Statutes 385.007
• Public debt: Cumulative amounts borrowed by the Treasury Department or the Federal Financing Bank from the public or from another fund or account. The public debt does not include agency debt (amounts borrowed by other agencies of the Federal Government). The total public debt is subject to a statutory limit.
• Public law: A public bill or joint resolution that has passed both chambers and been enacted into law. Public laws have general applicability nationwide.
• Public schools: means all kindergartens and elementary schools, junior high schools and middle schools, high schools, charter schools and any other schools, classes and educational programs which receive their support through public taxation and, except for charter schools, whose textbooks and courses of study are under the control of the State Board. See Nevada Revised Statutes 385.007
• Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
• Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
• Remainder: An interest in property that takes effect in the future at a specified time or after the occurrence of some event, such as the death of a life tenant.
• social worker: means a social worker licensed pursuant to chapter 641B of NRS who holds a license issued pursuant to chapter 391 of NRS and an endorsement to serve as a school social worker issued pursuant to regulations adopted by the Commission on Professional Standards in Education or who is otherwise authorized by the Superintendent of Public Instruction to serve as a school social worker. See Nevada Revised Statutes 385.007
• State Board: means the State Board of Education. See Nevada Revised Statutes 385.007
• Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
• Testify: Answer questions in court.
• Transcript: A written, word-for-word record of what was said, either in a proceeding such as a trial or during some other conversation, as in a transcript of a hearing or oral deposition.
• Uniform Commercial Code: A set of statutes enacted by the various states to provide consistency among the states' commercial laws. It includes negotiable instruments, sales, stock transfers, trust and warehouse receipts, and bills of lading. ^{Source: OCC}