Terms Used In New Hampshire Revised Statutes 514:6

  • Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
  • Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
  • 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
  • Plaintiff: The person who files the complaint in a civil lawsuit.
If the defendant shall not appear at the time and place to which the action is continued judgment shall be rendered on satisfactory evidence that notice has been posted or given as ordered aforesaid, and execution shall issue thereon, upon the plaintiff‘s filing with the justice a bond with sufficient sureties to the defendant to respond to the judgment, which the defendant may recover, upon a review of the action; but if personal service has been made upon the defendant no bond is required.