Terms Used In New Hampshire Revised Statutes 511:8

  • Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
  • Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
  • Plaintiff: The person who files the complaint in a civil lawsuit.
  • real estate: shall include lands, tenements, and hereditaments, and all rights thereto and interests therein. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:21
In all counties when an attachment upon real estate is dissolved or the levy thereunder is defeated, the plaintiff or his attorney, upon request, shall give to the defendant or owner of the land a discharge thereof, and the defendant or owner of the land, within 30 days after such attachment is dissolved or levy thereunder defeated, shall cause the discharge to be recorded in the office of the register of deeds in which said attachment or levy is recorded, and shall pay the register of deeds the fee established pursuant to N.H. Rev. Stat. § 478:17-g.