Terms Used In New Hampshire Revised Statutes 512:5

  • Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
  • Deposition: An oral statement made before an officer authorized by law to administer oaths. Such statements are often taken to examine potential witnesses, to obtain discovery, or to be used later in trial.
  • person: may extend and be applied to bodies corporate and politic as well as to individuals. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:9
  • 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
  • Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
  • Writ: A formal written command, issued from the court, requiring the performance of a specific act.
A person doing business in this state and residing outside the state may be summoned upon trustee process by serving the writ upon his clerk or agent having charge of such business, and he may be charged as trustee, as if he were an inhabitant of this state, upon the deposition of such clerk or agent, for any money, goods or chattels of the defendant in his hands or possession in this state or for any rights or credits of the defendant by reason of contracts made or performed within the state.