Terms Used In Nevada Revised Statutes > Chapter 233A - Indian Affairs

• Affirmed: In the practice of the appellate courts, the decree or order is declared valid and will stand as rendered in the lower court.
• Annuity: A periodic (usually annual) payment of a fixed sum of money for either the life of the recipient or for a fixed number of years. A series of payments under a contract from an insurance company, a trust company, or an individual. Annuity payments are made at regular intervals over a period of more than one full year.
• Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.
• Articles: means either the articles of incorporation of a professional corporation or the articles of organization of a professional limited-liability company. See Nevada Revised Statutes 89.020
• Chair: means the Chair of the Nevada Indian Commission. See Nevada Revised Statutes 233A.001
• Commission: means the Nevada Indian Commission. See Nevada Revised Statutes 233A.001
• Commissioner: means a commissioner of the Nevada Indian Commission. See Nevada Revised Statutes 233A.001
• Department: means the Department of Motor Vehicles. See Nevada Revised Statutes 481.015
• Director: means the Director of the Department. See Nevada Revised Statutes 481.015
• Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
• health district: means a health district created pursuant to Nevada Revised Statutes 75A.050
• Licensed: means legally authorized by the appropriate regulating board of this State to engage in a regulated profession in this State. See Nevada Revised Statutes 89.020
• Museum: means the Stewart Indian School Cultural Center and Museum established pursuant to Nevada Revised Statutes 233A.001
• National Bank: A bank that is subject to the supervision of the Comptroller of the Currency. The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency is a bureau of the U.S. Treasury Department. A national bank can be recognized because it must have "national" or "national association" in its name. ^{Source: OCC}
• Plaintiff: The person who files the complaint in a civil lawsuit.
• Professional association: means a common-law association of two or more persons licensed or otherwise legally authorized to render professional service within this State when created by written articles of association which contain in substance the following provisions characteristic of corporate entities:

  (a) The death, insanity, bankruptcy, retirement, resignation, expulsion or withdrawal of any member of the association does not cause its dissolution. See Nevada Revised Statutes 89.020

• Public defender: Represent defendants who can't afford an attorney in criminal matters.
• Regulating board: means the body which regulates and authorizes the admission to the profession which a professional entity or a professional association is authorized to perform. See Nevada Revised Statutes 89.020
• Sequester: To separate. Sometimes juries are sequestered from outside influences during their deliberations.
• Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
• Testify: Answer questions in court.
• Trial: A hearing that takes place when the defendant pleads "not guilty" and witnesses are required to come to court to give evidence.
• Writ: A formal written command, issued from the court, requiring the performance of a specific act.