NRS 10.010 Definitions. As used in this title, unless the context otherwiserequires, the words and terms defined in NRS10.015 to 10.125, inclusive, havethe meanings ascribed to them in those sections.

[Part 1911 CPA 533; RL 5475; NCL 9022](NRS A1977, 181; 1985, 499)

NRS 10.015 Affinitydefined. Affinity when applied to themarriage relation signifies the connection existing in consequence of marriagebetween each of the married persons and the blood relatives of the other.

[Part 1911 CPA 533; RL 5475; NCL 9022](NRS A1977, 181; 1985, 499)

NRS 10.025 Monthdefined. Month means a calendar month, unlessotherwise expressed.

[Part 1911 CPA 533; RL 5475; NCL 9022](NRS A1977, 181; 1985, 499)

NRS 10.035 Oathdefined. Oath includes affirmation ordeclaration.

[Part 1911 CPA 533; RL 5475; NCL 9022](NRS A1977, 181; 1985, 499)

NRS 10.045 Personalproperty defined. Personal propertyincludes money, goods, chattels, things in action and evidences of debt.

[Part 1911 CPA 533; RL 5475; NCL 9022](NRS A1977, 181; 1985, 499)

NRS 10.055 Processdefined. Process signifies a writ or summonsin the course of judicial proceedings.

[Part 1911 CPA 533; RL 5475; NCL 9022](NRS A1977, 181; 1985, 499)

NRS 10.065 Propertydefined. Property includes both real and personalproperty.

[Part 1911 CPA 533; RL 5475; NCL 9022](NRS A1977, 181; 1985, 499)

NRS 10.075 Realproperty defined. Real property iscoextensive with lands, tenements and hereditaments.

[Part 1911 CPA 533; RL 5475; NCL 9022](NRS A1977, 181; 1985, 499)

NRS 10.085 Statedefined. State when applied to the differentparts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and theterritories.

[Part 1911 CPA 533; RL 5475; NCL 9022](NRS A1977, 181; 1985, 499)

NRS 10.095 UnitedStates defined. United States may includethe District of Columbia and territories or insular possessions.

[Part 1911 CPA 533; RL 5475; NCL 9022](NRS A1977, 181; 1985, 499)

NRS 10.105 Willdefined. Will includes a codicil.

[Part 1911 CPA 533; RL 5475; NCL 9022](NRS A1977, 181; 1985, 499)

NRS 10.115 Writdefined. Writ signifies an order or preceptin writing, issued in the name of the State or of a court or judicial officer.

[Part 1911 CPA 533; RL 5475; NCL 9022](NRS A1977, 181; 1985, 499)

NRS 10.125 Writingdefined. Writing includes printing andtypewriting.

[Part 1911 CPA 533; RL 5475; NCL 9022](NRS A1977, 181; 1985, 499)

NRS 10.135 Interpretation. As used in this title, every mode of oral statement, underoath or affirmation, is embraced by the term testify, and every written onein the term depose.

[Part 1911 CPA 533; RL 5475; NCL 9022](NRS A1977, 181; 1985, 499)

NRS 10.145 Signatureby mark. As used in this title, signature orsubscription includes mark when the person cannot write, his name being writtennear it by a person who writes his own name as a witness; but when a signatureis by mark it must, in order that it may be acknowledged or may serve as thesignature to any sworn statement, be witnessed by two persons who mustsubscribe their own names as witnesses thereto.

[Part 1911 CPA 533; RL 5475; NCL 9022](NRS A1977, 181; 1985, 499)

NRS 10.155 Legalresidence. Unless otherwise provided byspecific statute, the legal residence of a person with reference to his rightof naturalization, right to maintain or defend any suit at law or in equity, orany other right dependent on residence, is that place where he has beenphysically present within the State or county, as the case may be, during allof the period for which residence is claimed by him. Should any person absenthimself from the jurisdiction of his residence with the intention in good faithto return without delay and continue his residence, the time of such absence isnot considered in determining the fact of residence.

[Part 1:158:1911; RL 3609; NCL 6405](NRS A 1981,1861)(Substituted in revision for NRS 10.020)

NRS 10.165 Performanceof secular acts. Whenever any act of a secularnature, other than a work of necessity or mercy, is appointed by law orcontract to be performed upon a particular day, which day falls upon a holidayor a nonjudicial day, it may be performed upon the next business day with thesame effect as if it had been performed upon the day appointed; and if such actis to be performed at a particular hour it may be performed at the same hour ofthe next business day.

[1:61:1913; 1919 RL p. 3351; NCL 9408](Substitutedin revision for NRS 10.030)

NRS 10.175 Sealsof courts and public offices: Impressions on documents. A seal of a court or public office, when required to anywrit or process or proceeding, or to authenticate a copy of any record ordocument, may be impressed with wax, wafer, or any other substance, and thenattached to the writ, process or proceeding, or to the copy of the record ordocument, or it may be impressed on the paper alone.

[1911 CPA 539; RL 5481; NCL 9028](Substitutedin revision for NRS 10.040)

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