306:1 Membership
306:3-a Powers as to Merger
306:4 Corporate Powers
306:7 Conveyances
306:8 By Minister
306:9 Accounts
306:11 Quakers
306:12 Defective Proceedings

Terms Used In New Hampshire Revised Statutes > Chapter 306 - Religious Societies Generally

  • Bequest: Property gifted by will.
  • 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.
  • Devise: To gift property by will.
  • Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
  • person: may extend and be applied to bodies corporate and politic as well as to individuals. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:9
  • Prosecute: To charge someone with a crime. A prosecutor tries a criminal case on behalf of the government.
  • sworn: when applied to public officers required by the constitution to take oaths therein prescribed, shall refer to those oaths; when applied to other officers it shall mean sworn to the faithful discharge of the duties of their offices before a justice of the peace, or other person authorized to administer official oaths in such cases. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:25
  • United States: shall include said district and territories. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:4