Person entitled to enforce instrument
Known as the Uniform Commercial Code
The act spans §§ 104–104 (489 sections).
Applied in 7 court decisions — leading case Leyva v. National Default Servicing Corp. (2011)
Most recently applied in Eagle SPE NV I, Inc. v. Kiley Ranch Communities (March 2014)
(Added to NRS by 1965, 825; A 1993, 1272)
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
1. “Person entitled to enforce” an instrument means:
(a) The holder of the instrument;
(b) A nonholder in possession of the instrument who has the rights of a holder; or
(c) A person not in possession of the instrument who is entitled to enforce the instrument pursuant to NRS 104.3309 or subsection 4 of NRS 104.3418.
2. A person may be a person entitled to enforce the instrument even though the person is not the owner of the instrument or is in wrongful possession of the instrument.
Official source: Nevada Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain Nevada statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.