Nebraska Code — 25
Browse 485 sections in division 25 of the Nebraska code. Each section page includes the full statutory text, official source links, and citation guidance.
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- § 25-101. Civil action.
- § 25-103. Feigned issues prohibited; issue not plead; tried, when.
- § 25-201.01. Civil actions; savings clause; conditions.
- § 25-202. Actions for the recovery of title or possession of real estate or foreclosure of mortgages or deeds of trust as mortgages.
- § 25-204. Actions other than for the recovery of real property.
- § 25-206. Actions on oral contracts or statutory liabilities.
- § 25-208. Actions for libel, slander, malpractice, and recovery of tax.
- § 25-210. Actions against sureties on guardian's bond.
- § 25-212. Actions not specified.
- § 25-214. Actions against absconding or absent debtor.
- § 25-216. Part payment; acknowledgment of debt; effect upon accrual.
- § 25-217. Action; commencement; defendant not properly served; effect.
- § 25-218. Claims by and against the state; when barred.
- § 25-222. Actions on professional negligence.
- § 25-224. Actions on product liability.
- § 25-226. Cause of action against a common carrier; limitation.
- § 25-228. Action by victim of sexual assault of a child; when.
- § 25-301. Real party in interest.
- § 25-303. Assignee; defenses and counterclaims available.
- § 25-305. Married woman.
- § 25-307. Suit by infant, guardian, or next friend; exception; substitution by court.
- § 25-309. Suit against infant; guardian for suit; when appointed; exception.
- § 25-311. Joinder of plaintiffs.
- § 25-312.01. Dissolved corporation; suit authorized.
- § 25-316. Company, partnership, or unincorporated association; member's individual property; how subjected to satisfaction of judgment.
- § 25-318. Necessary joinder; involuntary joinder; procedure.
- § 25-319.01. Class action litigation; unpaid residue; payment by defendant.
- § 25-321. Unknown defendants; how designated.
- § 25-323. Necessary parties; brought into suit.
- § 25-325. Interpleader by order of court upon affidavit of defendant.
- § 25-327. Substitution; plaintiff in execution for sheriff or other officer.
- § 25-329. Intervention; judgment; costs.
- § 25-331. Third-party action; procedure.
- § 25-402. Local actions involving real estate located in more than one county.
- § 25-403.01. Actions; venue; transfer; payment of expenses.
- § 25-410. Transfer of actions; clerk of transferor court; duties; clerk of transferee court; duties; certain support orders; how treated.
- § 25-412. Change of venue in local actions involving real estate; transfer and entry of judgment.
- § 25-412.02. Civil cases; counties of 4,000 population or less; inadequate facilities; change of venue.
- § 25-412.04. Criminal and civil trials; agreements for change of venue; jury; selection.
- § 25-413. State, defined.
- § 25-414. Choice of forum; jurisdiction; conditions.
- § 25-415. Choice of forum in another state; action pending in this state; procedure.
- § 25-417. Act, how cited.
- § 25-507. Process server; requirements; bond; cost.
- § 25-510.02. Service on state or political subdivision.
- § 25-516.01. Service; voluntary appearance; defenses.
- § 25-519. Service by publication; how made; contents.
- § 25-520.01. Service by publication; mailing of published notice; requirements; waiver; when mailing not required.
- § 25-520.03. Sections, how construed.
- § 25-523. Legal and other official notices; publication; legal newspaper; requirements; prior publications legalized.
- § 25-525. Judgment on constructive service; how opened; procedure.
- § 25-527. Procedure when defendants not all served.
- § 25-529. Personal service upon appointed resident agent; appointment; recording and indexing; fees.
- § 25-532. Notice of judgment when property situated in more than one county.
- § 25-533. Attachment and execution issued from another county; sheriff file notice.
- § 25-534. Order, motion, or notice; service; delivery.
- § 25-536. Jurisdiction over a person.
- § 25-538. Action in another forum; stay or dismissal of action.
- § 25-540. Service outside state; manner.
- § 25-542. Service of process; applicability.
- § 25-601. Dismissal without prejudice.
- § 25-603. Dismissal without prejudice; trial on setoff or counterclaim.
- § 25-704. Consolidation of actions; order.
- § 25-824. Pleadings; use in other actions; frivolous pleading; effect; effect of signature; frivolous actions; award of attorney's fees and costs; political subdivisions.
- § 25-824.02. Frivolous actions; actual attorney's fee; effect of award; stipulations authorized.
- § 25-839. Libel or slander; how sufficiently pleaded; burden of proof.
- § 25-840.01. Libel; invasion of privacy; damages; retraction; effect.
- § 25-902. Offer of judgment; no cause for continuance or postponement.
- § 25-904. Record; what constitutes.
- § 25-906. Confession of judgment after action brought; effect.
- § 25-908. Motion, defined.
- § 25-910. Notice of motion; contents.
- § 25-914. Order, defined.
- § 25-1001. Attachment; grounds.
- § 25-1003. Attachment; plaintiff's undertaking; bond; amount.
- § 25-1005. Attachment; several and successive orders; issuance to several counties; costs; taxation.
- § 25-1007. Attachment; several orders against same defendant; time of service.
- § 25-1009. Attachment or garnishment; delivery of property to defendant or garnishee; conditions.
- § 25-1011. Garnishment; service upon garnishee; forms; notice; hearing.
- § 25-1012.01. Garnishment; public officers and employees.
- § 25-1015. Attached property; subsequent orders; procedure.
- § 25-1017. Order of attachment; effect; lien of consignee; interest and other costs; how computed.
- § 25-1019. Attachment; receiver; powers and duties; actions by.
- § 25-1021. Attachment; receiver; reports; custody of property; duties.
- § 25-1023. Attached property; preservation; sale; proceeds.
- § 25-1025. Attachment; discharge; bond, how executed.
- § 25-1027. Garnishee; payment into court; effect; costs.
- § 25-1029. Garnishment; property; delivery into court; bond in lieu of delivery.
- § 25-1030.01. Garnishee; application; notice; manner of service; corporate garnishee; liability.
- § 25-1030.03. Garnishment; ownership of property; intervention; trial.
- § 25-1031.01. Garnishment; judgment; effect.
- § 25-1032. Attachment; judgment for defendant; effect; return of property or proceeds.
- § 25-1034. Attached property; delivery to sheriff; power of court to compel.
- § 25-1035. Attached property out of sheriff's possession; repossession; power of court to order.
- § 25-1036. Attachment; intervening claimants; proceeding to ascertain title.
- § 25-1037. Several attachments; same property; reference.
- § 25-1039. Attachment; additional security; right of defendant to require.
- § 25-1040. Attachment; motion to discharge; right of defendant.
- § 25-1041. Attachment; motion to discharge; evidence.
- § 25-1043. Attachment of lands in another county; copy to be filed with register of deeds.
- § 25-1045. Attachment; discharge; duty of clerk to certify; duty of register of deeds to record.
- § 25-1047. Attachment; order of discharge; when and how superseded.
- § 25-1049. Attachment; claims not due; action authorized; when.
- § 25-1051. Attachment order in actions on claims not due; refusal requires dismissal of action.
- § 25-1055. Attachment in actions on claims not due; procedure in general.
- § 25-1062.01. Chief Water Officer, defined; notice to appropriator; how given.
- § 25-1064. Temporary injunctions and restraining orders; courts and judges empowered to issue; conditions; temporary restraining order granted without notice; requirements; actions involving irrigation water; notice, how given.
- § 25-1064.02. Sections, how construed.
- § 25-1069. Service of order; return.
- § 25-1071. Injunctions not granted; when.
- § 25-1073. Motion for additional security; vacation.
- § 25-1075. Injunction without notice; vacation; modification; notice.
- § 25-1077. Counterclaim; injunction upon.
- § 25-1079. Temporary injunction; modification; dissolution; supersedeas bond; when executed; form; contents.
- § 25-1081. Appointment of receiver; grounds.
- § 25-1083. Property; possession by sheriff; when authorized; restitution.
- § 25-1085. Application; form; content.
- § 25-1087. Order of appointment; special directions.
- § 25-1089. Appointment of receiver without notice; void; suspension of order, when.
- § 25-1092. Receivers; compensation.
- § 25-1093.01. Request delivery of property; affidavit; contents.
- § 25-1093.03. Affidavit; temporary order; notice; hearing; summons; service.
- § 25-1094. Order for delivery; contents.
- § 25-1096. Order for delivery; when returnable.
- § 25-1097. Order for delivery; how executed.
- § 25-1098. Delivery of property to plaintiff; bond; contents; return; redelivery bond.
- § 25-1099. Bond; amount; determination; appraisal.
- § 25-1101. Issues; kinds.
- § 25-1103. Trial, defined.
- § 25-1105. Issues of fact triable to court.
- § 25-1107. Order of trial.
- § 25-1108. View of property or place by jury.
- § 25-1110. Jury; separation; admonition of court.
- § 25-1112. Requested instruction; how modified.
- § 25-1114. Instructions; paragraphing; numbering; filing; record.
- § 25-1116. Instructions after retirement.
- § 25-1118. Jury; retrial on discharge.
- § 25-1120. Special verdict; controls general verdict.
- § 25-1122. General and special verdicts; definitions; form of special verdicts generally.
- § 25-1124. Rendition of verdict; polling of jury.
- § 25-1126. Jury trial; waiver.
- § 25-1128. Trial by the court; provisions for jury trials applicable.
- § 25-1130. Reference by court order; when allowed.
- § 25-1132. Referees; how chosen; number.
- § 25-1134. Trial by referee; exceptions; report.
- § 25-1136. Referees; oath or affirmation.
- § 25-1138. Exception, defined.
- § 25-1140. Bill of exceptions; filing of request; further proceedings governed by rules of court.
- § 25-1140.08. Bill of exceptions; boards and tribunals; filing of request; further proceedings governed by rules of court.
- § 25-1141. Testimony; repetition of objections unnecessary.
- § 25-1144.01. New trial; motion; when filed; filing before entry of judgment; treatment.
- § 25-1146. Damages.
- § 25-1148. Continuance or adjournment of causes pending; motion; affidavits; oral testimony; order; effect.
- § 25-1154. Legislative purpose and findings.
- § 25-1155. Motion; when granted; contents.
- § 25-1157. Trial; use of verdict; records; not required.
- § 25-1210. Witnesses; answer subjecting to criminal liability; disgracing answer; privilege.
- § 25-1216. Evidence; instrument; written and printed matter; writing controls.
- § 25-1218. Works of history, science, or art; presumptive evidence.
- § 25-1220. Handwriting; proof by comparison; experts; jury.
- § 25-1222. Private writing; when admissible without proof.
- § 25-1224. Subpoena; to whom directed; production of documents, information, or tangible things; Supreme Court; powers.
- § 25-1226. Subpoena; manner of service; time.
- § 25-1228. Trial subpoena; witness fee; return; cost.
- § 25-1230. Subpoena; disobedience; attachment; undertaking; rule to show cause.
- § 25-1232. Subpoena; disobedience; attachment; commitment; form; to whom directed.
- § 25-1234. Prisoner; deposition; manner of taking.
- § 25-1238. Subpoena; witness avoiding service; powers of officer.
- § 25-1240. Testimony; how taken.
- § 25-1242. Deposition, defined.
- § 25-1244. Affidavit; when used.
- § 25-1268. Discovery; delivery of copies of documents; refusal to deliver; penalty.
- § 25-1273.01. Rules of procedure.
- § 25-1275. Legal notices; proof of posting or service.
- § 25-1277. Legal notices and other facts provable by affidavit; perpetuation of proof.
- § 25-1281. Official records; photographic copies; admissibility; destruction of original records.
- § 25-1283. Land office receipts; effect as evidence.
- § 25-1284. Official records; signature of custodian; genuineness presumed, when.
- § 25-1285. Judicial records of Nebraska and federal courts; how proved.
- § 25-1287. Records of justice of the peace; how proved.
- § 25-1293. Public seal affixed to copy of written law or public writing; effect; unwritten law; how proved.
- § 25-1301. Judgment, rendition of judgment, entry of judgment, decree, or final order, defined; records; clerk; duties.
- § 25-1304. Decree for conveyance, release, or acquittance; effect.
- § 25-1306. Dissolution of lien; deposit; bond; appellate proceedings.
- § 25-1308. Judgment upon failure to answer; procedure.
- § 25-1310. Judgment by confession; contents.
- § 25-1312. Confession of judgment by attorney; warrant; requirements.
- § 25-1314. Entry of judgment by court; when required.
- § 25-1315.02. Motion for directed verdict at close of evidence; effect; filing before entry of judgment; treatment; motion to set aside verdict or judgment; power of court.
- § 25-1316. Judgment upon counterclaim or setoff.
- § 25-1318. Judgments and orders; record.
- § 25-1326. Judicial sale; conveyance of land by master commissioner; when allowed; postponement of sale; notice.
- § 25-1328. Judicial sale; deed of commissioner; form and execution.
- § 25-1330. Claimant; right to move for summary judgment.
- § 25-1332. Motion for summary judgment; proceedings.
- § 25-1334. Form of affidavits; further testimony.
- § 25-1336. Affidavit made in bad faith.
- § 25-1338. Definitions.
- § 25-1340. Standards for recognition of foreign-country judgment.
- § 25-1342. Procedure for recognition of foreign-country judgment.
- § 25-1344. Stay of proceedings pending appeal of foreign-country judgment.
- § 25-1346. Uniformity of interpretation.
- § 25-1348. Act; applicability.
- § 25-1349. Short title.
- § 25-1350. Definitions.
- § 25-1351. Applicability.
- § 25-1353. Effect of registration.
- § 25-1355. Motion to vacate registration.
- § 25-1357. Relationship to Uniform Foreign-Country Money Judgments Recognition Act.
- § 25-1359. Act; applicability.
- § 25-1402. Actions which abate by death of defendant.
- § 25-1404. Death of one of several parties; cessation of powers of personal representative; right of action not surviving to or against remaining parties; procedure.
- § 25-1406. Revivor; procedure; conditional order.
- § 25-1408. Revivor; procedure; service of order; order by consent.
- § 25-1410. Death of plaintiff; in whose name action revived.
- § 25-1412. Death of defendant in actions to recover real property; against whom action revived.
- § 25-1414. Revivor as to plaintiff; time; limitation; revivor as to both parties.
- § 25-1416. Death of plaintiff; right of defendant to compel revivor.
- § 25-1418. Joint debtors not originally summoned made judgment debtors.
- § 25-1420. Dormant judgment; revivor; time limitation.
- § 25-1501.01. District court judgment; execution issued to any county in state; procedure; lien on real estate; procedure.
- § 25-1503. Property subject to levy and sale.
- § 25-1505. Stay of execution; maximum period.
- § 25-1507. Execution; how stayed.
- § 25-1509. Stay of execution; surety on stay bond excepted; no appeal after stay.
- § 25-1511. Stay of execution; recall of writ; duties of clerk and sheriff.
- § 25-1513. Stay of execution; expiration; writ to issue; duty of clerk.
- § 25-1515. Judgment; when dormant.
- § 25-1517. Several writs of execution; preference.
- § 25-1521. Intervening claimants; proceedings to ascertain title.
- § 25-1523. Intervening claimants; proceedings before jury to ascertain title; levy notwithstanding verdict; bond.
- § 25-1525. Goods unsold; additional writ; notice of sale.
- § 25-1527. Sale of land; prior sale set aside; readvertisement.
- § 25-1529. Sale of land; notice; publication; effect of failure to publish.
- § 25-1531. Mortgage foreclosure; confirmation of sale; grounds for refusing to confirm; time; motion; notice.
- § 25-1533. Sale upon execution; deed to purchaser; form; estate conveyed.
- § 25-1535. Sale of lands and chattels; printer's fees; officer must demand.
- § 25-1536. Sales of lands or tenements; where held; officer disqualified to purchase.
- § 25-1537. Lands unsold; additional writs.
- § 25-1538. Several writs of execution; levy on real property; how made; preference.
- § 25-1539. Sale of lands and tenements; deed by sheriff's successor.
- § 25-1541. Sale of lands or tenements; reversal of judgment; title of purchaser; restitution.
- § 25-1543. Writ of execution; when returnable.
- § 25-1545. Execution; sheriff; amercement; causes; procedure.
- § 25-1547. Amercement; amount; limit.
- § 25-1549. Amercement; motion; notice; effect of entry; transmission of money.
- § 25-1551. Amercement; execution on original judgment; rights of officer.
- § 25-1553. Federal or state earned income tax credit refund; when exempt.
- § 25-1555. Exemptions; not applicable to tax sales.
- § 25-1557. Actions in which exemptions limited or not allowed.
- § 25-1559. Pensions of disabled soldiers and sailors; property purchased therewith; limit.
- § 25-1561. Exempt wages; interstate business; law violation; aiders; abettors.
- § 25-1563. Exempt wages; interstate business; violation; penalty.
- § 25-1563.02. Lump-sum settlement; structured settlement; exempt from certain process; when.
- § 25-1565. Discovery of property of debtor; order to appear and answer.
- § 25-1567. Discovery of property of debtor; examination; debtor's incriminating answers; not privileged; immunity.
- § 25-1569. Debtors of judgment debtor; examination; notice.
- § 25-1571. Discovery of property of debtor; examination; oath; referee.
- § 25-1573. Discovery of property of debtor; appointment of receiver; transfer of nonexempt property; power of court to prevent.
- § 25-1576. Discovery of property of debtor; reference.
- § 25-1578. Discovery of property of debtor; orders to judgment debtors and witnesses; service; filing; record.
- § 25-1580. Discovery of property of debtor; proceedings; county judge; fees.
- § 25-1582. Judgment other than for the recovery of money or real property; enforcement by attachment or rule of court; notice.
- § 25-1587.01. Act, how cited.
- § 25-1587.03. Filing and status of foreign judgments.
- § 25-1587.05. Stay.
- § 25-1587.07. Optional procedure.
- § 25-1587.09. Foreign judgments registered under prior law.
- § 25-1650. Jurors; qualifications; disqualifications; excused or exempt, when.
- § 25-1645. Act; intent and purpose.
- § 25-1651. Jurors; actions to which county or other municipal corporation a party; inhabitants and taxpayers; serve, when.
- § 25-1649. Jurors; selection.
- § 25-1660. Jurors; how summoned; notice; deadlines, applicability.
- § 25-1661. Jurors; appearance; failure to appear or serve without good cause; contempt of court.
- § 25-1654. Combined list; master key list; how produced.
- § 25-1659. Master key list; juror qualification form; review; names stricken.
- § 25-1657. Juror qualification form; potential juror; complete; return; when.
- § 25-1658. Juror qualification form; failure to return; effect; contempt of court.
- § 25-1676. Jury list; tampering; solicitation; penalty.
- § 25-1671. County court; advance jury selection; when authorized.
- § 25-1663. Petit jury; examination by judge; excess jurors.
- § 25-1662. Petit jury for subsequent periods; how drawn; how notified.
- § 25-1664. Petit jury; special jury panel in criminal cases.
- § 25-1669. Grand jury; how drawn; alternate jurors.
- § 25-1673. Jurors; disclosing names; when permissible; penalty; access to juror qualification forms.
- § 25-1652. Jurors; challenge for cause; grounds.
- § 25-1678. Juries; proceedings stayed; jury panel or list quashed; grounds; procedures; new list, order for.
- § 25-1644. Act, how cited.
- § 25-1655. Potential jurors; how selected.
- § 25-1672. Jury trial; notice to jury commissioner; waiver.
- § 25-1706. Costs upon disclaimer.
- § 25-1708. Plaintiff's costs; when allowed.
- § 25-1710. Defendant's costs; when allowed.
- § 25-1712. Successive actions against joinable parties; limit to recovery by plaintiff.
- § 25-1714. Application for postponement of trial; condition.
- § 25-1716. Unpaid costs; lien; terminates.
- § 25-1801. Lawsuit of four thousand dollars or less; recovery; costs; interest; attorney's fees.
- § 25-1803. Award of fees and expenses against state; when authorized.
- § 25-1805. Award of fees and expenses against state; additional to compensation.
- § 25-1807. Award of fees and expenses against state; proceedings to which applicable.