Nevada Code § 40.100

Action by person in adverse possession: Issuance, service and posting of summons; rights of unknown persons
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1. Within 1 year after the filing of the
complaint, as required by NRS 40.090 , a
summons must be issued in the manner and form prescribed in the Nevada Rules of
Civil Procedure. In addition to other requirements, the summons shall contain a
description of the property described in the complaint. In the summons the
unknown defendants shall be designated as in the complaint. Service of summons,
whether personal or otherwise, shall be effected in the manner prescribed in
the Nevada Rules of Civil Procedure; and the times for completion of service
and appearance by the defendant shall be as prescribed therein.
2. Within 30 days after the issuance of
the summons, the plaintiff shall post or cause to be posted a copy thereof in a
conspicuous place, on each separate parcel of the property described in the
complaint, and each parcel of the land upon which a copy of the summons is
posted shall be deemed to be in the possession of the court for all the
purposes of and pending the determination of the action. All such unknown
persons so served shall have the same rights as are provided by law in cases of
all other defendants named, upon whom service is made by publication or
personally, and the action shall proceed against such unknown persons in the
same manner as against the defendants who are named, upon whom service is made
by publication or personally, and with like effect; and any such unknown person
who has or claims to have any right, title, estate, lien or interest in the
property, or cloud on the title thereto, adverse to plaintiff, at the time of
the commencement of the action, who has been duly served as aforesaid, and
anyone claiming title under the unknown person shall be concluded by the
judgment in such action as effectually as if the action had been brought
against the person by his or her name and personal service of process obtained,
notwithstanding any such unknown person may be under legal disability.

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