Terms Used In New Hampshire Revised Statutes 511:56

  • Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
  • Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
  • Plaintiff: The person who files the complaint in a civil lawsuit.
When there are several attachments of the same property in different suits, if an action in which a prior attachment was made shall be continued in court, the plaintiff in a suit wherein subsequent attachment was made may take judgment and execution at any time, and the lien of his attachment in its order of priority shall be preserved until the expiration of 60 days from the rendition of judgment in the suit wherein the prior attachment was made.