New Hampshire Revised Statutes 516:5 – Service of Summons
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Terms Used In New Hampshire Revised Statutes 516:5
- 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
- Summons: Another word for subpoena used by the criminal justice system.
- Testify: Answer questions in court.
- Writ: A formal written command, issued from the court, requiring the performance of a specific act.
Any person may be summoned to attend and testify or give his deposition, by reading to him, or by giving to him in hand an attested copy of, the writ of summons, and by paying or tendering to him the fees established for his travel to and from the place where his attendance is required, and for one day’s attendance.