Terms Used In New Hampshire Revised Statutes 528:21

  • 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.
  • Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
  • person: may extend and be applied to bodies corporate and politic as well as to individuals. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:9
  • Writ: A formal written command, issued from the court, requiring the performance of a specific act.
If any officer of a corporation shall, on request of an officer and on exhibition of such writ of attachment or execution, refuse or neglect to exhibit to him such records and documents in his keeping as may be useful to direct and assist him in the discharge of his duty he shall forfeit twenty dollars to the officer, and shall be answerable for all damages sustained by any person thereby.