Title 2

NRS 21.027 Writ to levy on property in safe-deposit box at financial institution: Separate writ required; service of notice of writ; effect of writ. 1. If a writ of execution or garnishment is levied on property in a safe-deposit box maintained at a financial institution, a separ…

NRS 21.030 Satisfaction of judgment on joint contract. When a writ of execution is issued on a judgment recovered against two or more persons, in an action upon a joint contract, in which action all the defendants were not served with summons, or did not appear, it shall direct t…

NRS 21.040 Return of execution. The execution shall be returnable to the clerk with whom the judgment roll is filed not less than 10 nor more than 60 days after its receipt by the sheriff. [1911 CPA § 341; RL § 5283; NCL § 8839]—(NRS A 1969, 386)

NRS 21.050 Enforcement of judgments requiring payment of money or delivery of property; performance of other act. Where a judgment requires the payment of money or the delivery of real or personal property, the same shall be enforced in those respects by execution. Where it requi…

NRS 21.060 Execution may issue after death of party. Notwithstanding the death of a party after the judgment, execution thereon may be issued, in case of the death of the plaintiff, the same as if the plaintiff were living, upon the application of the plaintiff’s executor or admi…

NRS 21.070 Execution to issue to sheriff. Where the execution is against the property of the judgment debtor, it may be issued to the sheriff of any county in the State. Where it requires the delivery of real or personal property, it shall be issued to the sheriff of the county w…

NRS 21.075 Notice of writ of execution: Service required; form; contents. 1. Execution on the writ of execution by levying on the property of the judgment debtor may occur only if the sheriff serves the judgment debtor with a notice of the writ of execution pursuant to NRS 21.076…

NRS 21.076 Notice of writ of execution: Manner and time of service. The notice required by NRS 21.075 must be served by the sheriff on the judgment debtor by regular mail at the debtor’s last known address or, if the debtor is represented by an attorney, at the attorney’s office.…

NRS 21.080 Property liable to execution; property not affected by execution until levy; exemption of certain trusts. 1. All goods, chattels, money and other property, real and personal, of the judgment debtor, or any interest therein of the judgment debtor not exempt by law, and …

NRS 21.090 Property exempt from execution. 1. The following property is exempt from execution, except as otherwise specifically provided in this section or required by federal law: (a) Private libraries, works of art, musical instruments and jewelry not to exceed $5,000 in value,…

NRS 21.095 Property exempt from execution upon judgment for medical bill. The primary dwelling, including a mobile or manufactured home, of a judgment debtor is exempt from execution upon a judgment for a medical bill. The parcel of land upon which the dwelling is situated and an…

NRS 21.100 Collections of minerals, art curiosities and paleontological remains exempt from execution. 1. Any bona fide owner of a collection or cabinet of metal-bearing ores, geological specimens, art curiosities, or paleontological remains who shall properly arrange, classify, …

NRS 21.105 Certain amount in personal bank account not subject to execution; claim of exemption for additional amount; determination of exemption; immunity from liability for financial institution. 1. If a writ of execution or garnishment is levied on the personal bank account of…

NRS 21.107 Court order that money in personal bank account is subject to writ; manner in which to claim exemption for exempt money. 1. Notwithstanding the provisions of NRS 21.105, if a judgment debtor has a personal bank account in more than one financial institution, the judgme…

NRS 21.110 Execution of writ by sheriff. The sheriff shall, in the manner provided for writs of attachments in NRS 31.060, execute the writ against the property of the judgment debtor by levying on a sufficient amount of property, if there is sufficient, collecting or selling the…

NRS 21.111 Constable authorized to act as sheriff with respect to writ. A constable may perform any of the duties assigned to a sheriff and has all of the authority granted to a sheriff pursuant to this chapter with respect to a writ of execution or garnishment. (Added to NRS by …

NRS 21.112 Claim of exemption: Procedure; clerk to provide form and instructions; manner in which to object; burden of proof; release of property; debtor may not be required to waive. 1. In order to claim exemption of any property levied on pursuant to this section, the judgment …

NRS 21.118 Levy on property of going business. 1. If personal property levied on under a writ of execution belongs to a going business and the judgment debtor consents, the sheriff shall place a keeper in charge of such property for a period of at least 2 days with the judgment c…

NRS 21.120 Garnishment in aid of execution; notice of writ of garnishment; third-party claims. 1. If personal property, including debts or credits due or to become due, is not in the possession or control of the debtor, the sheriff, upon instructions from the creditor and without…

NRS 21.130 Notice of sale under execution; separate notice for residential foreclosure. 1. Before the sale of property on execution, notice of the sale, in addition to the notice required pursuant to NRS 21.075 and 21.076, must be given as follows: (a) In cases of perishable prop…

NRS 21.140 Penalties for selling without notice; defacing notice. 1. An officer selling without the notice prescribed by NRS 21.075, 21.076 and 21.130 forfeits $500 to the aggrieved party, in addition to the party’s actual damages. 2. It is unlawful for a person to willfully take…

NRS 21.150 Conduct of sales of real and personal property under execution: Place and time; who may not be purchasers; sales of parcels; directions of judgment debtor. 1. All sales of property under execution must be made at auction to the highest bidder between the hours of 9 a.m…

NRS 21.160 Proceedings after purchaser refuses to pay amount bid. 1. If a purchaser refuses to pay the amount bid by the purchaser for property struck off to the purchaser at a sale under execution, the officer may again sell the property to the highest bidder, after again giving…

NRS 21.170 Delivery of personal property capable of manual delivery to purchaser; certificate of sale. When the purchaser of any personal property capable of manual delivery shall pay the purchase money, the officer making the sale shall deliver to the purchaser the property, and…

NRS 21.180 Delivery of personal property not capable of manual delivery; certificate of sale. When the purchaser of any personal property not capable of manual delivery shall pay the purchase money, the officer making the sale shall execute and deliver to the purchaser a certific…

NRS 21.190 Sale of real property; purchaser acquires rights of judgment debtor; absolute sale and sale subject to redemption; certificate of sale. Upon a sale of real property, the purchaser shall be substituted to and acquire all the right, title, interest and claim of the judgm…

NRS 21.200 Real property sold subject to redemption; who may redeem; redemptioner defined. 1. Property sold subject to redemption, as provided in NRS 21.190, or any part sold separately, may be redeemed in the manner hereinafter provided by the following persons or their successo…

NRS 21.210 Time and manner of redemption. The judgment debtor or redemptioner may redeem the property from the purchaser any time within 1 year after the sale on paying the purchaser the amount of his or her purchase price with 1 percent per month thereon in addition, to the time…

NRS 21.220 Successive redemptions; redemption from previous redemptioner; notice of redemption; sheriff’s deed; certificate of redemption. 1. If property be so redeemed by a redemptioner, another redemptioner may, within 60 days after the last redemption, again redeem it from the…

NRS 21.230 Payments of redemption to purchaser, redemptioner or officer; documents to be served by redemptioner; sheriff to pay over money. 1. The payments mentioned in NRS 21.210 and 21.220 may be made to the purchaser or redemptioner, or for him or her to the officer who made t…

NRS 21.240 Court may restrain waste until expiration of period for redemption; what is not considered waste. Until the expiration of the time allowed for redemption, the court may restrain the commission of waste on the property, or may appoint a receiver to take charge of the pr…

NRS 21.250 Disposition of rents and profits. The purchaser from the time of a sale until a redemption, and a redemptioner from the time of his or her redemption until another redemption, shall be entitled to receive from the tenant in possession, the rents of the property sold, o…

NRS 21.260 Recovery by purchaser from judgment creditor after eviction from property because of irregularities of sale; revival of original judgment. 1. If the purchaser of real property sold on execution, or the purchaser’s successor in interest, or a redemptioner is evicted the…

NRS 21.270 Examination of judgment debtor. 1. A judgment creditor, at any time after the judgment is entered, is entitled to an order from the judge of the court requiring the judgment debtor to appear and answer upon oath or affirmation concerning his or her property, before: (a…

NRS 21.280 Proceedings in aid of execution; appearance of judgment debtor before court; arrest; bail or commitment. After the issuing of an execution against property, and upon proof by affidavit of a party or otherwise, to the satisfaction of the court or of the judge thereof, t…

NRS 21.290 Third party may pay judgment. After the issuing of an execution against property, any person indebted to the judgment debtor may pay to the sheriff the amount of the person’s debt, or so much thereof as may be necessary to satisfy the execution, and the sheriff’s recei…

NRS 21.300 Debtor of judgment debtor may be examined. After the issuing or return of an execution against property of the judgment debtor, or of any one of several debtors in the same judgment, and upon proof by affidavit or otherwise, to the satisfaction of the judge, that any p…

NRS 21.310 Witnesses required to testify. Witnesses may be required to appear and testify before the judge or master conducting any proceeding under this chapter in the same manner as upon the trial of an issue. [1911 CPA § 369; RL § 5311; NCL § 8867]—(NRS A 1989, 903)

NRS 21.320 Judge may order property applied toward satisfaction of judgment. The judge or master may order any property of the judgment debtor not exempt from execution, in the hands of such debtor or any other person, or due to the judgment debtor, to be applied toward the satis…

NRS 21.330 Proceedings on claim of third party to property or on denial of debt to judgment debtor. If it appears that a person or corporation alleged to have property of the judgment debtor, or indebted to the judgment debtor, claims an interest in the property adverse to him or…

NRS 21.340 Disobedience of master’s orders; contempts. If any person, party or witness disobey an order of the master, properly made in the proceedings before the master under this chapter, he or she may be punished by the court or judge ordering the reference, for a contempt. [1…