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In 1911, three very important acts were enacted that serve as the foundation of many civil and criminal laws:
Many provisions of the current NRS have as their origin one of these three major acts.
Unfortunately, committee minutes documenting legislative intent were not kept until 1965. For a chronological description of how each of the 1911 Acts progressed through the legislative process (as reported in Assembly and Senate Journals), consult these documents:
Additionally, identifying the jurisdiction from which a Nevada statute is based is often possible to ascertain by referencing the annotations to the sections from the Revised Laws of Nevada (1912—the first place these acts were published -- they were exempted from publication in the Statutes of Nevada). Some, but not all, statutory sections have origins in California statutes, and references will be made accordingly.
You will know you're dealing with one of the 1911 Acts if your statutory history note looks like one of the following examples: