Title 2

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…

NRS 22.010 Acts or omissions constituting contempts. The following acts or omissions shall be deemed contempts: 1. Disorderly, contemptuous or insolent behavior toward the judge while the judge is holding court, or engaged in judicial duties at chambers, or toward masters or arbi…

NRS 22.020 Reentry on real property after ejectment by judgment or process. Every person dispossessed of or ejected from any real property by the judgment or process of any court of competent jurisdiction, and who, not having a right so to do, reenters into or upon or takes posse…

NRS 22.030 Summary punishment of contempt committed in immediate view and presence of court; affidavit or statement to be filed when contempt committed outside immediate view and presence of court; disqualification of judge. 1. If a contempt is committed in the immediate view and…

NRS 22.040 Issuance of warrants of attachment and commitment. When the contempt is not committed in the immediate view and presence of the court or judge, a warrant of attachment may be issued to bring the person charged to answer, or, without a previous arrest, a warrant of comm…

NRS 22.050 Amount of bail may be fixed by endorsement on warrant of attachment. Whenever a warrant of attachment is issued pursuant to this chapter, the court or judge shall direct, by an endorsement on such warrant, that the person charged may be let to bail for his or her appea…

NRS 22.060 Duties of sheriff. Upon executing the warrant of attachment, the sheriff shall keep the person in custody, bring the person before the court or judge, and detain the person until an order be made in the premises, unless the person arrested entitle himself or herself to…

NRS 22.070 Discharge from arrest on furnishing bail; form and conditions of bond. When a direction to let the person arrested to bail is contained in the warrant of attachment, or endorsed thereon, the person arrested shall be discharged from the arrest upon executing and deliver…

NRS 22.080 Return of warrant and undertaking by officer. The officer shall return the warrant of arrest and the undertaking, if any, received by the officer from the person arrested, by the return day specified therein. [1911 CPA § 459; RL § 5401; NCL § 8948]

NRS 22.090 Trial; court to hear answer and witnesses; adjournment. When the person arrested has been brought up or appeared, the court or judge shall proceed to investigate the charge, and shall hear any answer which the person arrested shall make to the same, and may examine wit…

NRS 22.100 Penalty for contempt. 1. Upon the answer and evidence taken, the court or judge or jury, as the case may be, shall determine whether the person proceeded against is guilty of the contempt charged. 2. Except as otherwise provided in NRS 22.110, if a person is found guil…

NRS 22.110 Imprisonment until performance if contempt is omission to perform an act; penalty for failure or refusal to testify before grand jury. 1. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 2, when the contempt consists in the omission to perform an act which is yet in the powe…

NRS 22.120 Indictment for contemptuous conduct. Persons proceeded against according to the provisions of this chapter shall also be liable to indictment for the same misconduct, if it be an indictable offense, but the court before which a conviction is had on an indictment, in pa…

NRS 22.130 Proceedings when defendant does not appear; measure of damages in action on undertaking. When the warrant of arrest has been returned served, if the person arrested does not appear on the return day, the court or judge may issue another warrant of arrest, or may order …

NRS 22.140 Excuses for not bringing arrested person before court; persons not to be unnecessarily restrained. Whenever, by the provisions of this chapter, an officer is required to keep a person arrested on a warrant of attachment in custody, and to bring the person before a cour…