Nevada · statute · Nev. Rev. Stat. ch. 111 · 190 active provisions
As used in this chapter: 1. “Conveyance” shall be construed to embrace every instrument in writing, except a last will and testament, whatever may be its form, and by whatever name it may be known in law, by which any estate or interest in lands is created, aliened, assigned or surrendered. 2. “Estate and interest in l…
Nothing contained in this chapter shall be construed to abridge the powers of courts to compel the specific performance of agreements in cases of part performance of such agreements.
Every instrument required by any of the provisions of this chapter to be subscribed by any party, may be subscribed by the lawful agent of such party.
Every conveyance, charge, instrument or proceeding declared to be void by the provisions of this chapter, as against purchasers, shall be equally void as against the heirs, successors, personal representatives or assigns of such purchasers.
All conveyances of real property made, acknowledged or proved prior to December 2, 1861, according to the laws in force at the time of the making, acknowledgment or proof, shall have the same force as evidence, and be recorded in the same manner and with like effect as conveyances executed and acknowledged in pursuance…
The legality of the execution, acknowledgment, proof, form or record of any conveyance, or other instrument made, executed, acknowledged, proved or recorded prior to December 2, 1861, shall not be affected by anything contained in this chapter, but shall depend for its validity or legality upon the laws and customs the…
This chapter shall not be so construed as to interfere or conflict with the lawful mining rules, regulations or customs in regard to the locating, holding or forfeiture of claims, but, in all cases of mortgages of mining interests under this chapter, the mortgagee shall have the right to perform the same acts that the…
1. Any nonresident alien, person or corporation may take, hold and enjoy any real property or any interest in lands, tenements or hereditaments within the State of Nevada as fully, freely, and upon the same terms and conditions as any resident citizen, person or domestic corporation. 2. Nothing contained in this sectio…
Every interest in real property granted or devised to two or more persons, other than executors and trustees, as such, shall be a tenancy in common, unless expressly declared in the grant or devise to be a joint tenancy.
Tenancy in common in real or personal property may be created by a single conveyance from a married couple holding title as joint tenants to themselves, or to themselves and others, or to one of them and others, when such conveyance expressly declares that the grantees thereunder are tenants in common.
1. Estates as tenants in common or estates in community property may be created by conveyance from a married couple to themselves or to themselves and others or from a sole owner to himself or herself and others in the same manner as a joint tenancy may be created. 2. A right of survivorship does not arise when an esta…
1. Joint tenancy in real property may be created by a single will or transfer when expressly declared in the will or transfer to be a joint tenancy, or by transfer from a sole owner to himself or herself and others, or from tenants in common to themselves, or to themselves and others, or to one of them and others, or f…
1. The term “heirs,” or other words of inheritance, shall not be necessary to create or convey an estate in fee simple. 2. Every conveyance of any real property hereafter executed shall pass all the estate of the grantor, unless the intent to pass a less estate shall appear by express terms, or be necessarily implied i…
Where a remainder in lands or tenements, goods or chattels shall be limited by deed or otherwise, to take effect on the death of any person without heirs, or heirs of his or her body, or without issue, the word “heir,” or “issue,” shall be construed to mean heirs or issue living at the death of the person named as ance…
A future estate, depending on the contingency of the death of any person without heirs or issue, or children, shall be defeated by the birth of a posthumous child of such person capable of taking by descent.
Where an estate shall be any conveyance limited, in remainder, to the son or daughter or issue, or to use of the son or daughter or issue of any person to be begotten, such son or daughter or issue, born after the decease of his or her parent, shall take the estate in the same proportion, and in the same manner, as if…
Grants of rents, or of reversions, or remainders, shall be good and effectual without attornments of the tenants; but no tenant who, before notice of the grant, shall have paid rent to the grantor shall suffer any damage thereby.
The attornment of a tenant to a stranger shall be void unless it be with the consent of the landlord of such tenant, or in pursuance to, or in consequence of, a judgment or decree of some court of competent jurisdiction.
Lineal and collateral warranties, with all their incidents, are abolished; but the heirs and devisees of every person who shall have made any covenant or agreement in reference to the title of, in or to any real property, shall be answerable upon such covenant or agreement to the extent of the land descended or devised…
If land is granted or devised to a person and after the person’s death to his or her heirs or the heirs of his or her body, regardless of how the grant or devise is expressed, an estate for life vests in that person and his or her heirs take the remainder pursuant to the grant or devise and not through that person. The…
A contingent remainder is not destroyed by the termination of the preceding estate before the satisfaction of the condition upon which the remainder is contingent. If the condition is subsequently satisfied, the remainder takes effect in the same manner as a springing or shifting executory interest. The purpose of this…
NRS 111.103 to 111.1039, inclusive: 1. May be cited as the Uniform Statutory Rule Against Perpetuities; and 2. Must be applied and construed to effectuate their general purpose to make uniform the law with respect to their subject among states enacting the Uniform Statutory Rule Against Perpetuities.
1. A nonvested property interest is invalid unless: (a) When the interest is created, it is certain to vest or terminate no later than 21 years after the death of a natural person then alive; or (b) The interest either vests or terminates within 365 years after its creation. 2. A general power of appointment not presen…
1. Except as provided in subsections 2 and 3 and in subsection 1 of NRS 111.1039, the time of creation of a nonvested property interest or a power of appointment is determined under general principles of property law. 2. For purposes of NRS 111.103 to 111.1039, inclusive, if there is a person who alone can exercise a p…
Upon the petition of an interested person, a court shall reform a disposition in the manner that most closely approximates the transferor’s manifested plan of distribution and is within the 365 years allowed by paragraph (b) of subsection 1, paragraph (b) of subsection 2 or paragraph (b) of subsection 3 of NRS 111.1031…