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Walk It Through: Selling The Car

A private sale in Nevada, from the signatures on the title to the plates 60 days later.

A buyer answers the ad and pays cash for the car.

Two things a person in this spot might do. Picking one shows what the law says about it.

One private sale between two people. Dealer sales, credits and refunds of the registration fee and tax, and a buyer who never registers are not worked through here.

A practice walkthrough, not a prediction of how any real one will go. Legal information, not legal advice.

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Terms with a legal meaning that is narrower than the everyday one. Each links to the definition and the authority behind it.