Terms Used In New Hampshire Revised Statutes 512:9-b

  • Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
  • Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
  • Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
  • Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
When a bank, trust company, building and loan association, or similar corporation is named as trustee, the trustee shall be summoned by service only upon a bank officer, branch supervisor, or head teller of a branch only from 8:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m., Monday through Friday except bank holidays. The trustee so served shall be chargeable only for any money, goods, chattels, rights, or credits of the defendant in the trustee’s hands at the time of service, subject to any reductions due the trustee for account fees, amounts alleged or determined not to belong to the defendant or other priority claims to defendant’s money, goods, chattels, rights, or credits. If summoned by service after 3:00 p.m., the trustee shall have until the beginning of the next business day to effect the attachment.