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Terms Used In New Hampshire Revised Statutes 477:13

  • Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
  • Grantor: The person who establishes a trust and places property into it.
  • 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
  • Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). Source: OCC
  • state: when applied to different parts of the United States, may extend to and include the District of Columbia and the several territories, so called; and the words "United States" shall include said district and territories. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:4
If the grantor or lessor shall refuse to acknowledge a deed or lease, proof of its due execution may be made in the manner provided in N.H. Rev. Stat. § 477:12, but, if the grantor or lessor is a resident of this state, notice of the time and place of proving the same, signed by a justice, shall be delivered to him or left at his abode 14 days prior to such time. Every unacknowledged deed proved agreeably to this section or N.H. Rev. Stat. § 477:12 shall be as effectual as if duly acknowledged.