Statute 39 290

The master or the court may take separate mortgages and other securities for the whole or convenient portions of the purchase money, of such parts of the property as are sold on credit, for the shares of any known owner of full age, in the name of the owner, and for the shares of an infant, in the name of the guardian of the infant, and for other shares, in the name of the clerk of the county and the clerk’s successors in office. [1911 CPA § 613; RL § 5555; NCL § 9102]—(NRS A 1985, 774)