§ 248.090 General duties
§ 248.092 Searches and rescues
§ 248.100 Attendance at sessions of district court required in certain counties; duty to obey lawful orders of district court and to execute process, writs and warrants
§ 248.110 Practice of law prohibited
§ 248.120 Process, writ and orders to be endorsed; provision of memorandum or copy upon request
§ 248.130 Execution and endorsement of process; liability for failure to execute
§ 248.150 Liability to creditor for failure to attach, levy or sell
§ 248.160 Liability for collections
§ 248.170 Sheriff not to purchase at sale
§ 248.180 Collection of execution after expiration of term of office
§ 248.190 Service on sheriff: Manner
§ 248.210 Duties concerning riotous assembly; penalty
§ 248.220 Sheriff may call upon Governor for military aid to assist civil authorities in suppressing violence
§ 248.230 Penalty for failure to prevent duel
§ 248.242 Crash reports and related materials: Provision upon receipt of reasonable fee; exceptions
§ 248.245 Report of deaths to public administrator or person employed or contracted to perform the duties of public administrator in certain counties
§ 248.250 Duties pertaining to criminal procedure in justice courts

Terms Used In Nevada Revised Statutes > Chapter 248 > Duties; Powers; Prohibited Acts; Process; Liabilities

  • Answer: The formal written statement by a defendant responding to a civil complaint and setting forth the grounds for defense.
  • Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.
  • Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
  • Client: means a person that has engaged an escrow agent or escrow agency to administer an escrow related to a transaction. See Nevada Revised Statutes 645A.010
  • Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
  • county: includes Carson City. See Nevada Revised Statutes 0.033
  • Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
  • Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
  • Escrow: Money given to a third party to be held for payment until certain conditions are met.
  • Escrow: means any transaction wherein one person, for the purpose of effecting or closing the sale, purchase, exchange, transfer, encumbering or leasing of real or personal property to another person or persons, delivers any written instrument, money, evidence of title to real or personal property, or other thing of value to a third person to be held by such third person until the happening of a specified event or the performance of a prescribed condition, when it is then to be delivered by such third person, in compliance with instructions under which he or she is to act, to a grantee, grantor, promisee, promisor, obligee, obligor, lessee, lessor, bailee, bailor or any agent or employee thereof. See Nevada Revised Statutes 645A.010
  • Escrow agent: means any natural person employed by and associated with an escrow agency engaged in the business of administering escrows for compensation. See Nevada Revised Statutes 645A.010
  • 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.
  • Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
  • Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
  • mortgage: includes a deed of trust. See Nevada Revised Statutes 0.037
  • Mortgage loan: A loan made by a lender to a borrower for the financing of real property. Source: OCC
  • Oath: A promise to tell the truth.
  • person: means a natural person, any form of business or social organization and any other nongovernmental legal entity including, but not limited to, a corporation, partnership, association, trust or unincorporated organization. See Nevada Revised Statutes 0.039
  • 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
  • real estate: means every interest or estate in real property including but not limited to freeholds, leaseholds and interests in condominiums, town houses or planned unit developments, whether corporeal or incorporeal, and whether the real property is situated in this State or elsewhere. See Nevada Revised Statutes 645.020
  • Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
  • Service of process: The service of writs or summonses to the appropriate party.
  • Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
  • Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
  • substantial bodily harm: means :

    1. See Nevada Revised Statutes 0.060

  • Writ: A formal written command, issued from the court, requiring the performance of a specific act.