For the purposes of NRS 18.010 to 18.150, inclusive, the term “costs” means: 1. Clerks’ fees. 2. Reporters’ fees for depositions, including a reporter’s fee for one copy of each deposition. 3. Jurors’ fees and expenses, together with reasonable compensation of an officer appointed to act in accordance with NRS 16.120. 4. Fees for witnesses […]
1. The compensation of an attorney and counselor for his or her services is governed by agreement, express or implied, which is not restrained by law. 2. In addition to the cases where an allowance is authorized by specific statute, the court may make an allowance of attorney’s fees to a prevailing party: (a) When […]
1. An attorney at law shall have a lien: (a) Upon any claim, demand or cause of action, including any claim for unliquidated damages, which has been placed in the attorney’s hands by a client for suit or collection, or upon which a suit or other action has been instituted. (b) In any civil action, […]
Costs must be allowed of course to the prevailing party against any adverse party against whom judgment is rendered, in the following cases: 1. In an action for the recovery of real property or a possessory right thereto. 2. In an action to recover the possession of personal property, where the value of the property […]
1. A court shall not: (a) Refuse to award attorney’s fees or costs to the State, a local government, a public officer or a public employee; or (b) Reduce the amount of the attorney’s fees or costs it awards to the State, a local government, a public officer or a public employee, as the prevailing […]
When several actions are brought on one bond, undertaking, promissory note, bill of exchange, or other instrument in writing, or in any other case for the same cause of action, against several parties who might have been joined as defendants in the same action, no costs shall be allowed to the plaintiff in more than […]
Except as limited by this section, in other actions in the district court, part or all of the prevailing party’s costs may be allowed and may be apportioned between the parties, or on the same or adverse sides. If, in the judgment of the court, the plaintiff believes he or she was justified in bringing […]
In the following cases the costs of an appeal to the Court of Appeals or the Supreme Court shall be in the discretion of the court: 1. Where a new trial is ordered. 2. When a judgment is modified. In the event no order is made by the court relative to the costs in the […]
1. When an application is made to a court or master to postpone a trial, the payment of costs, occasioned by the postponement may be imposed, in the discretion of the court or master, as a condition of granting the postponement. 2. A court may impose costs and reasonable attorney’s fees against a party or […]
When, in an action for the recovery of money only, the defendant alleges in his or her answer that before the commencement of the action the defendant tendered to the plaintiff the full amount to which the plaintiff was entitled, and thereupon deposits in court, for the plaintiff, the amount so tendered, and the allegations […]
In an action prosecuted or defended by an executor, administrator, trustee of express trust, or a person expressly authorized by statute, costs may be recovered as in an action by and against a person prosecuting and defending in his or her own right; but such costs shall, by the judgment, be made chargeable only upon […]
1. The party in whose favor judgment is rendered, and who claims costs, must file with the clerk, and serve a copy upon the adverse party, within 5 days after the entry of judgment, or such further time as the court or judge may grant, a memorandum of the items of the costs in the […]
The clerk shall include in the judgment entered up by the clerk any interest on the verdict or judgment of the court or master, from the time it was rendered or made, and the costs, if the same have been taxed or ascertained; and the clerk shall, within 2 days after the same shall be […]
1. When a plaintiff in an action resides out of the State, or is a foreign corporation, security for the costs and charges which may be awarded against such plaintiff may be required by the defendant, by the filing and service on plaintiff of a written demand therefor within the time limited for answering the […]
In any civil action or proceeding wherein the State, or the people of the State, is a party plaintiff, or any state officer, in his or her official capacity or in behalf of the State, or any county, city and county, city or town, or the United States of America, or the Home Owners’ Loan […]
1. When the State is a party, and costs or attorney’s fees are awarded against it, they must be paid out of the State Treasury. 2. When a county is a party, and costs or attorney’s fees are awarded against it, they must be paid out of the county treasury. [1911 CPA § 450; RL […]
1. A judgment creditor may claim costs for one or more of the following items: (a) Statutory fees for preparing or issuing an abstract of judgment. (b) Statutory fees for recording, receiving or filing an abstract of judgment. (c) Statutory fees for issuing a writ of execution, or any writ for the enforcement of any […]
A judgment creditor claiming costs or necessary disbursements reasonably incurred in aid of the collection of a judgment or of any execution issued thereon, other than those specified in NRS 18.160, including items which have been disallowed by the judge in the supplemental proceeding, shall serve the adverse party either personally or by mail, and […]
Within 2 days after the costs are tried or ascertained, or after the time for making a motion to tax the same has expired, the clerk or judge shall enter the amount thereof on the margin of the judgment, and thereafter they shall be included together with the amount of the fee charged for issuance […]
