477:1 By Deed
477:2 By Corporation
477:3 Execution
477:3-a Recording
477:3-b Limitations on Possibilities of Reverter, Rights of Re-entry, and Executory Interests
477:4 Acknowledgments
477:4-a Notification Required; Radon, Arsenic, and Lead
477:4-b Notification Required; Subsurface Disposal Systems
477:4-c Disclosure Required; Water Supply; Sewage Disposal
477:4-d Notification Required
477:4-e History of Property
477:4-f Notification Required Prior to Condominium Sale
477:4-g Notification Prior to Sale, Transfer, Lease, or Rental of Real Property on Which Methamphetamine Has Been Produced
477:4-h Notification Required Prior to Sale, Transfer, Lease, or Rental of Real Property Subject to a Public Utility Tariff Pursuant to RSA 374:61 for the Financing or Amortization of Energy Efficiency or Renewable Energy Improvements
477:5 Certificate of Acknowledgment
477:6 Fee for Certificate
477:7 Validity
477:7-a Notice of Lease
477:7-b Execution and Delivery of Lease Required
477:8 Additional Record
477:9 Power of Attorney
477:10 Unacknowledged Deed
477:12 Proof by Handwriting
477:13 Refusal to Acknowledge
477:14 Neglect to Record
477:15 Oral Conveyance
477:16 Deeds Lacking Statement of Consideration or Acknowledgments Validated
477:17 Trusts
477:18 Tenants in Common
477:19 Joint Heirs
477:20 Alien Residents
477:21 Escheat
477:22 Limited Interest
477:22-a Enforceability of Publicly-Owned Land Restrictions
477:23 Purpose
477:24 Unnecessary Words; Construction of Certain Words
477:25 Statute of Uses Not to Effect Trusts
477:25-a Conveyances To or From Trusts Without Naming Trustees
477:26 Easements, Appurtenances, Etc
477:27 Statutory Form of Warranty Deed
477:28 Statutory Form of Quitclaim Deed
477:29 Statutory Form of Power of Sale Mortgage
477:30 Statutory Form of Fiduciary Deed
477:31 Statutory Form for Foreclosure Deed Under Power of Sale
477:32 Affidavit of Sale Under Power of Sale in Mortgage
477:32-a Error in or Omission of Mailing Address
477:33 Waters
477:34 Property
477:35 Effect
477:35-a Conditional Deed
477:35-b Previous Conveyances
477:36 Requisites
477:37 Mortgagee’s Consent to Cutting
477:38 Continuance of Mortgage Lien
477:39 Petition for Trustee; Order for Sale
477:40 Notice
477:41 Appearances; Costs
477:42 Trustee’s Bond; Duties
477:43 Probate Jurisdiction
477:44 Buildings; Manufactured Housing
477:45 Definitions
477:46 Restrictions Enforceable
477:47 Interests in Real Estate
477:49 Definitions
477:50 Creation of a Solar Skyspace Easement
477:51 Statutory Form of Solar Skyspace Easement
477:52 Funding of Loans at Real Estate Closings
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Terms Used In New Hampshire Revised Statutes > Chapter 477 - Conveyances of Realty and Interests Therein

  • Affidavit: A written statement of facts confirmed by the oath of the party making it, before a notary or officer having authority to administer oaths.
  • Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
  • Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
  • Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • 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.
  • Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
  • Devise: To gift property by will.
  • Escheat: Reversion of real or personal property to the state when 1) a person dies without leaving a will and has no heirs, or 2) when the property (such as a bank account) has been inactive for a certain period of time. Source: OCC
  • 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.
  • Executor: A male person named in a will to carry out the decedent
  • Fee simple: Absolute title to property with no limitations or restrictions regarding the person who may inherit it.
  • Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
  • following: when used by way of reference to any section of these laws, shall mean the section next preceding or following that in which such reference is made, unless some other is expressly designated. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:13
  • Foreclosure: A legal process in which property that is collateral or security for a loan may be sold to help repay the loan when the loan is in default. Source: OCC
  • Grantor: The person who establishes a trust and places property into it.
  • Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
  • Joint tenancy: A form of property ownership in which two or more parties hold an undivided interest in the same property that was conveyed under the same instrument at the same time. A joint tenant can sell his (her) interest but not dispose of it by will. Upon the death of a joint tenant, his (her) undivided interest is distributed among the surviving joint tenants.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). Source: OCC
  • Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
  • Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants.
  • Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
  • Mortgagee: The person to whom property is mortgaged and who has loaned the money.
  • Mortgagor: The person who pledges property to a creditor as collateral for a loan and who receives the money.
  • oath: shall include "affirmation" in all cases where by law an affirmation may be substituted for an oath; and, in like cases, the word "sworn" shall include the word "affirmed. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:24
  • Oath: A promise to tell the truth.
  • Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
  • person: may extend and be applied to bodies corporate and politic as well as to individuals. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:9
  • Personal property: All property that is not real property.
  • petition: when used in connection with the equity jurisdiction of the superior court, and referring to a document filed with the court, shall mean complaint, and "petitioner" shall mean plaintiff. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:51
  • petitioner: shall mean plaintiff. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:51
  • Power of attorney: A written instrument which authorizes one person to act as another's agent or attorney. The power of attorney may be for a definite, specific act, or it may be general in nature. The terms of the written power of attorney may specify when it will expire. If not, the power of attorney usually expires when the person granting it dies. Source: OCC
  • Probate: Proving a will
  • real estate: shall include lands, tenements, and hereditaments, and all rights thereto and interests therein. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:21
  • Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
  • registered mail: when used in connection with the requirement for notice by mail shall mean either registered mail or certified mail. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:32-a
  • Remainder: An interest in property that takes effect in the future at a specified time or after the occurrence of some event, such as the death of a life tenant.
  • seal: shall include an impression of the official seal made upon the paper alone, as well as an impression thereof made by means of wax, or a wafer, affixed thereto. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:11
  • Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
  • 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
  • Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
  • Statute of limitations: A law that sets the time within which parties must take action to enforce their rights.
  • Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
  • United States: shall include said district and territories. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:4