Nevada Revised Statutes
Chapter 31 - Attachment, Garnishment and Other Extraordinary Remedies

NRS 31.010 - Application to court for writ of attachment: Timing; requirements when Department of Taxation has taken over management of local government. - 1. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 2, the plaintiff...

NRS 31.030 - Written undertaking on attachment; additional bond; exception to sufficiency of sureties; vacation of writ. - 1. The court, in its order for attachment, shall require...

NRS 31.040 - Sheriff to attach and keep property; undertaking by defendant. - The writ must be directed to the sheriff of any...

NRS 31.045 - Notice of execution on writ of attachment: Service required; form; contents. - 1. Execution on the writ of attachment by attaching property...

NRS 31.050 - Attachment of shares of stock, debts due defendant and other property. - Subject to the order for attachment and the provisions of...

NRS 31.060 - Execution of writ of attachment: Manner in which property is to be attached. - Subject to the requirements of NRS 31.045, the sheriff to...

NRS 31.065 - Deposits by plaintiff of money with sheriff to pay expenses of taking, transporting and keeping certain personal property; liability of sheriff. - 1. In cases where the sheriff is instructed to take...

NRS 31.070 - Third-party claims in property levied on; undertaking by plaintiff; liability of sheriff; exception to sufficiency of sureties; hearing to determine title to property. - 1. If the property levied on is claimed by a...

NRS 31.100 - Examination of person served with copy of writ and defendant; delivery and memoranda of personal property. - After the writ has been issued, any person owing debts...

NRS 31.110 - Sheriff’s return of writ; certificate. - The sheriff shall return the writ of attachment within 25...

NRS 31.120 - Sale of attached perishable property; sheriff to retain proceeds and attached property to answer judgment. - If any of the property attached is perishable, the sheriff...

NRS 31.130 - Sale of attached property; proceeds to be deposited in court. - Whenever property has been taken by an officer under a...

NRS 31.140 - Satisfaction of judgment by sales of attached property. - If judgment be recovered by the plaintiff, the sheriff shall...

NRS 31.150 - Deficiency after sale of attached property; sheriff to collect balance as upon an execution. - If, after selling all the property attached by the sheriff...

NRS 31.160 - Plaintiff may prosecute undertaking if execution returned unsatisfied. - If the execution be returned unsatisfied, in whole or in...

NRS 31.170 - Discharge of attachment after judgment for defendant or dismissal of action; stay of release pending appeal. - If the defendant recovers judgment against the plaintiff, or if...

NRS 31.180 - Defendant, having appeared in action, may move for discharge of attachment upon giving undertaking; stipulations for release of attachments. - 1. Whenever the defendant shall have appeared in the action,...

NRS 31.190 - Undertaking of defendant; determination of disputed value of property; justification by sureties. - 1. On granting an order for discharge of attachment pursuant...

NRS 31.200 - Grounds for discharge of attachment. - 1. The defendant may also, at any time before trial,...

NRS 31.210 - When motion to discharge attachment made on affidavits, plaintiff may oppose by affidavits. - If the motion is made upon affidavits on the part...

NRS 31.220 - Improperly, improvidently or irregularly issued writ must be discharged; issuance of new writ. - If upon such application it satisfactorily appears that the writ...

NRS 31.235 - Constables have powers and duties of sheriff with respect to writ of attachment. - A constable may perform any of the duties assigned to...

NRS 31.240 - Writ of garnishment may issue at time of issuance of writ of attachment or later. - At the time of the order directing a writ of...

NRS 31.249 - Application to court for writ of garnishment. - 1. No writ of garnishment in aid of attachment may...

NRS 31.260 - Issuance and contents of writ of garnishment; notice of execution. - 1. The writ of garnishment must: (a) Be issued by...

NRS 31.270 - Service of writ; tender of garnishee’s fees. - 1. The writ of garnishment shall be served by the...

NRS 31.280 - Service and return of writ give court jurisdiction. - The sheriff’s return of the writ of garnishment showing due...

NRS 31.290 - Form of interrogatories to garnishee; garnishee to answer in writing under oath. - 1. The interrogatories to be submitted with any writ of...

NRS 31.291 - Garnishment of certain financial institutions. - 1. Debts and credits, due or to become due, from...

NRS 31.292 - Garnishment of court clerks, sheriffs, justices of the peace, peace officers, other public officers, executors and administrators. - 1. Clerks of the courts, sheriffs, justices of the peace,...

NRS 31.293 - Unpaid subscription to corporate stock subject to garnishment by creditor of corporation. - Any creditor of a corporation may, by garnishment, subject the...

NRS 31.294 - Procedure for garnishment when another action pending. - Money, property, demands, debts, claims, choses in action and any...

NRS 31.2945 - Garnishment under foreign judgment: Liability for failure to comply with Uniform Enforcement of Foreign Judgments Act. - 1. Any judgment debtor who is a resident of this...

NRS 31.295 - Garnishment of earnings: Limitations on amount. - 1. As used in this section: (a) "Disposable earnings" means...

NRS 31.2955 - Garnishment of earnings: Calculations for determining gross weekly salary or wage of employee. - 1. For the purposes of NRS 31.240 to 31.460, inclusive:...

NRS 31.296 - Garnishment of earnings: Period of garnishment; fee for withholding; termination of employment; periodic report by judgment creditor. - 1. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 3, if the...

NRS 31.297 - Garnishment of earnings: Liability of employer for refusal to withhold or for misrepresentation of earnings. - 1. If without legal justification an employer of the defendant...

NRS 31.298 - Garnishment of earnings: Unlawful to discharge or discipline employee. - It is unlawful for an employer to discharge or discipline...

NRS 31.300 - Property to be delivered to sheriff; sale; judgment against garnishee. - 1. If the answer of the garnishee shows that the...

NRS 31.310 - Property to be retained by garnishee or delivered to officer; effect of delivery; certificate of receipt of property. - 1. Subject to order of the court, a garnishee defendant...

NRS 31.320 - Judgment against garnishee on failure to answer; relief from judgment. - 1. If the garnishee has been duly served with the...

NRS 31.330 - Answer of garnishee; reply of plaintiff by affidavit. - If the garnishee answers as required by the writ, the...

NRS 31.340 - New matter in plaintiff’s reply deemed denied; trial; judgment; costs; attorney’s fees. - New matter in the affidavit replying to the answer of...

NRS 31.350 - Third person may be interpleaded as defendant; notice; proceedings. - When the answer of the garnishee discloses that any other...

NRS 31.360 - Garnishee may retain or deduct amounts due to garnishee by either party; record of judgment to show any counterclaims allowed. - Every garnishee shall be allowed to retain or deduct out...

NRS 31.370 - Judgment acquits garnishee for amounts paid. - The judgment against a garnishee shall acquit the garnishee from...

NRS 31.380 - Discharge of garnishee does not bar action by defendant; exception. - If the person summoned as garnishee is discharged for any...

NRS 31.390 - Judgment against garnishee for debt not due; execution deferred until debt due. - When the judgment is rendered against any garnishee and it...

NRS 31.400 - Property in hands of garnishee subject to security interest to be delivered to sheriff on payment or tender by plaintiff. - When any personal property, choses in action or effects of...

NRS 31.410 - Property held by garnishee to secure performance to be delivered to sheriff upon performance or tender by plaintiff. - If the personal property or effects are held for any...

NRS 31.420 - Disposal of property received by sheriff; reimbursement of plaintiff. - All personal property, choses in action and effects received by...

NRS 31.450 - Issuance of writ of garnishment after judgment; procedure; liberal construction. - Any person having a judgment remaining unsatisfied in any court...

NRS 31.460 - New trials and appeals. - Motions for new trial may be made in the same...

NRS 31.470 - Arrest in civil cases. - No person shall be arrested in a civil action except...

NRS 31.480 - Cases in which defendant may be arrested. - The defendant may be arrested, as hereinafter prescribed, in the...

NRS 31.490 - Order for arrest. - An order for the arrest of the defendant shall be...

NRS 31.500 - Order for arrest made when plaintiff’s affidavit shows a sufficient cause; requisites and filing of affidavit. - The order may be made whenever it shall appear to...

NRS 31.510 - Undertaking from plaintiff. - Before making the order the judge shall require a written...

NRS 31.520 - Order and arrest; return of order. - The order may be made to accompany the summons, or...

NRS 31.530 - Delivery of affidavit and order to sheriff and defendant. - The order of arrest, with a copy of the affidavit...

NRS 31.540 - Arrest of defendant. - The sheriff shall execute the order by arresting the defendant...

NRS 31.550 - Defendant to be discharged on bail or deposit. - The defendant, at any time before execution, shall be discharged...

NRS 31.560 - Defendant may give bail. - The defendant may give bail by causing a written undertaking,...

NRS 31.570 - Bail may surrender defendant. - At any time before judgment, or within 10 days thereafter,...

NRS 31.580 - Arrest, delivery and surrender of defendant by bail; exoneration of bail. - For the purpose of surrendering the defendant, the bail at...

NRS 31.590 - Action against bail. - If the bail neglect or refuse to pay the judgment...

NRS 31.600 - Bail exonerated by death, imprisonment or discharge of defendant. - The bail shall also be exonerated by the death of...

NRS 31.610 - Return of order; plaintiff may except to bail. - Within the time limited for that purpose, the sheriff shall...

NRS 31.620 - Notice of justification of bail. - Within 5 days after the receipt of notice, the sheriff...

NRS 31.630 - Qualifications of bail. - The qualifications of bail shall be as follows: 1. Each...

NRS 31.640 - Examination of bail. - For the purpose of justification, each of the bail shall...

NRS 31.650 - Allowance of bail exonerates sheriff. - If the judge, or clerk, find the bail sufficient, the...

NRS 31.660 - Deposit by defendant in lieu of bail. - The defendant may, at the time of the defendant’s arrest,...

NRS 31.670 - Sheriff must pay deposit into court. - The sheriff shall, immediately after the deposit, pay the same...

NRS 31.680 - Undertaking may be substituted for deposit. - If the money be deposited, as provided in NRS 31.660...

NRS 31.690 - Disposition of deposit. - Where money shall have been deposited, if it remain on...

NRS 31.700 - Liability of sheriff for escape or rescue. - If, after being arrested, the defendant escape or be rescued,...

NRS 31.710 - Recovery on official bond of sheriff. - If a judgment be recovered against the sheriff, upon the...

NRS 31.720 - Defendant may move to vacate arrest or reduce bail; hearing. - A defendant arrested may, at any time before the justification...

NRS 31.730 - Vacation of order of arrest and reduction of bail. - If, upon such application, it shall satisfactorily appear that there...

NRS 31.740 - Persons confined on execution issued on judgment may be discharged. - Every person confined in jail on an execution issued on...

NRS 31.750 - Notice of application for discharge. - Such person shall cause a notice in writing to be...

NRS 31.760 - Service of notice of application. - Such notice shall be served upon the plaintiff, or the...

NRS 31.770 - Hearing on application. - At the time and place specified in the notice, such...

NRS 31.780 - Oath of defendant on discharge. - If, upon examination, the judge be satisfied that the prisoner...

NRS 31.790 - Order of discharge. - After administering the oath, the judge shall issue an order...

NRS 31.800 - Renewal of application for discharge. - If such judge should not discharge the prisoner, the prisoner...

NRS 31.810 - Effect of discharge; judgment remains in force. - The prisoner, after being so discharged, shall be forever exempt...

NRS 31.820 - Plaintiff may order discharge of prisoner; effect of discharge. - The plaintiff in the action may, at any time, order...

NRS 31.830 - Creditor to advance money to jailer for support of prisoner. - Whenever a person is committed to jail on a judgment...

NRS 31.840 - Delivery may be claimed before answer. - Except as provided in NRS 179.1171, the plaintiff in an...

NRS 31.850 - Requisites of affidavit by plaintiff. - Where a delivery is claimed, an affidavit shall be made...

NRS 31.853 - Order to show cause; contents; service. - The court shall promptly examine the affidavit, and if it...

NRS 31.856 - Issuance of writ of possession without hearing; order shortening time for hearing; undertaking by plaintiff. - 1. A writ of possession may be issued prior to...

NRS 31.859 - Temporary restraining order in lieu of immediate issue of writ of possession. - In addition to the issuance of an order to show...

NRS 31.863 - Hearing on order to show cause; undertaking by plaintiff. - 1. Upon the hearing on the order to show cause,...

NRS 31.866 - Writ of possession. - 1. The writ of possession shall be directed to the...

NRS 31.870 - Sheriff to take property described in writ; service of writ and undertaking on defendant. - Upon receipt of the writ of possession, with a copy...

NRS 31.880 - Defendant may except to sufficiency of sureties. - The defendant may, within 2 days after the service of...

NRS 31.890 - Return of property to defendant upon giving written undertaking. - At any time before the delivery of the property to...

NRS 31.900 - Justification of defendant’s sureties. - The defendant’s sureties, upon notice to the plaintiff of not...

NRS 31.910 - Qualifications of sureties and manner of justification. - The qualifications of sureties and their justification shall be such...

NRS 31.920 - Sheriff may take concealed property by force after demand. - If the property, or any part thereof, be concealed in...

NRS 31.930 - Sheriff to keep property in secure place; to deliver upon receipt of fees and expenses. - When the sheriff shall have taken property, as in this...

NRS 31.940 - Claim by third party; undertaking by plaintiff; determination of title. - 1. If the property taken is claimed by any other...

NRS 31.950 - Sheriff to make return within 20 days after taking property. - The sheriff shall file the writ of possession and undertaking...

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Nevada Revised Statutes Chapter 31 - Attachment, Garnishment and Other Extraordinary Remedies

Nevada Revised Statutes
Chapter 31 - Attachment, Garnishment and Other Extraordinary Remedies