New Hampshire Revised Statutes 290:15 – Order for Disinterment
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Terms Used In New Hampshire Revised Statutes 290:15
- Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
- justice: when applied to a magistrate, shall mean a justice of a municipal court, or a justice of the peace having jurisdiction over the subject-matter. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:12
- person: may extend and be applied to bodies corporate and politic as well as to individuals. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:9
A justice, upon complaint made on oath by any person that he has reasonable ground for suspecting that a deceased person who has been interred came to his death by some unlawful means, may issue his warrant, requiring that the body shall be disinterred and examined, and may summon and examine witnesses in relation to the truth of such complaint.