40.170 - Damages in actions for forcible or unlawful entry may be trebled.

40.170  Damages in actions for forcible or unlawful entry may be trebled.

      1.  If a person recovers damages for a forcible or unlawful entry in or upon, or detention of, any building or any uncultivated or cultivated real property, judgment may be entered for three times the amount at which the actual damages are assessed.

      2.  As used in this section, “actual damages” means damages to real property and personal property.

      [1911 CPA § 566; RL § 5508; NCL § 9055]—(NRS A 1959, 22; 2009, 12)