Reports of Cases Determined in the Supreme Court of the State of Nevada: Reported by Judges of the Court During the Year ..., Volume 26

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E.I. Robinson, 1903
 

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Page 402 - All patents granted, or pre-emption or homesteads allowed, shall be subject to any vested and accrued water rights, or rights to ditches and reservoirs used in connection with such water rights, as may have been acquired under or recognized by the preceding section.
Page 203 - Court, except where the act, though done without the local jurisdiction of the county, is triable therein; 5. That the offense was committed at some time prior to the time of finding the indictment; 6. That the act or omission charged as the offense is clearly and distinctly set forth in ordinary and concise language, without repetition, and in such a manner as to enable a person of common understanding to know what is intended; 7.
Page 80 - When a cause of action has arisen in another state, or in a foreign country, and by the laws thereof an action thereon cannot there be maintained against a person by reason of the lapse of time, an action thereon shall not be maintained against him in this state...
Page 377 - Executive and Judicial ; and no person charged with the exercise of powers properly belonging to one of these departments, shall exercise any functions appertaining to either of the others, except in the cases hereinafter expressly directed or permitted.
Page 100 - Every bill which may have passed the Legislature shall, before it becomes a law, be presented to the Governor. If he approve it, he shall sign it; but if not, he shall return it, with his objections, to the House in which it originated, which shall enter the same upon the Journal, and proceed to reconsider it.
Page 58 - That department, as we have repeatedly said, was established to supervise the various proceedings whereby a conveyance of the title from the United States to portions of the public domain is obtained, and to see that the requirements of different Acts of Congress are fully complied with. Necessarily, therefore, it must consider and pass upon the qualifications of the applicant, the acts he has performed to secure tie title, the nature of the land, and whether it is of the class which is open to sale.
Page 489 - If a person against whom an action may be brought, die before the expiration of the time limited for the commencement thereof, and the cause of action survives, an action may be commenced against his executors or administrators, after the expiration of that time and within one year after the issuing of letters testamentary or of administration.
Page xxiv - Each librarian shall cause to be kept a register of all books issued and returned at the time they shall be so issued and returned, and none of the books, except the laws, journals, and reports of this State, which may be taken from the library, shall be detained more than ten days, and all the books taken out by officers or members of the legislature shall be returned at the close of the session.
Page 365 - ... prima facie evidence of the assessment, the property assessed, the delinquency, the amount of taxes due and unpaid, and that all the forms of law in relation to the assessment and levy of such taxes have been complied with.
Page 80 - An action upon a contract obligation or liability express or implied, except a judgment or sealed instrument. 2. An action to recover upon a liability created by statute, except a penalty or forfeiture. 3. An action to recover damages for an injury to property, or a personal injury, except in a case where a different period is expressly prescribed in this article.

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