Terms Used In New Hampshire Revised Statutes 416:3

  • person: may extend and be applied to bodies corporate and politic as well as to individuals. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:9
  • Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
A court or officer, whose duty it is to pass upon the account of any person required by law to give a bond, may, whenever the person has procured any such company as surety upon his bond, allow a reasonable sum for the expense of procuring such surety in the settlement of his account.