2011 Nevada Revised Statutes
Chapter 51 - Hearsay
NRS 51.255 - Learned treatises.


NV Rev Stat § 51.255 (2011) What's This?

To the extent called to the attention of an expert witness upon cross-examination or relied upon by the expert witness in direct examination, a statement contained in a published treatise, periodical or pamphlet on a subject of history, medicine or other science or art, is not inadmissible under the hearsay rule if such book is established as a reliable authority by the testimony or admission of the witness or by other expert testimony or by judicial notice.

(Added to NRS by 1971, 796)

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