Terms Used In New Hampshire Revised Statutes 458:34

  • Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
  • petition: when used in connection with the equity jurisdiction of the superior court, and referring to a document filed with the court, shall mean complaint, and "petitioner" shall mean plaintiff. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:51
Upon such petition an attachment of either spouse’s property may be made as in case of a petition for divorce; and the court may make interlocutory orders therein as in divorce cases, and its orders and decrees shall be enforced in like manner.