New Hampshire Revised Statutes 547:2 – Meaning of Terms
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Terms Used In New Hampshire Revised Statutes 547:2
- Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
- Probate: Proving a will
- 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
The word judge, as used in this title, means a judge of probate in the state of New Hampshire to whose court the jurisdiction of the subject matter belongs.