Title LI, Courts

In special cases the court may, within the appropriation limits established by the legislature, allow a reasonable compensation to masters for their services and expenses, including stenographer's fees in cases where the employment of a stenographer is authorized by the court, wh…

When a bill is filed under the provisions of RSA 498:8, the plaintiff may cause a certified copy thereof, and of the order issued thereon, to be filed in the office of the secretary of state, and such filing and the service of the bill upon such defendant shall constitute a lien,…

In the case of real estate, the lien shall be created by filing the certified copy in the office of the register of deeds of the county in which the real estate is situated.

The plaintiff in a bill in equity, or the petitionant in a petition for divorce, shall have a writ of attachment or a trustee process, as of right, for the attachment of the goods, estate, money, rights or credits of the defendant or petitionee to secure the performance of any de…

The officer to whom the writ is directed may attach property thereon as upon writs in civil actions, and such attachment shall constitute a lien upon the property attached to secure the performance of any decree or order that may be made in the suit.

The writ shall be filed in the clerk's office with the papers in the suit, and a memorandum of it shall be entered upon the docket.

The court may hear and determine such cases according to the course of equity, and may grant writs of injunction whenever the same are necessary to prevent fraud or injustice.

At any time after suit for negligence and an appearance on behalf of the defendant have been filed, the named defendant, or his or her insurance carrier if he or she is insured as to the claim, shall disclose only to the claimant or his or her counsel the policy limits of the pol…

If the decree or order requires the performance of any other thing than the payment of money, the court may make necessary orders and issue necessary process to secure or compel the performance of the decree or order by means of the property attached or held by trustee process.

Any lien acquired by proceedings in equity may be released, discharged or modified by the court in such manner and upon such terms as justice may require. When any such lien is dissolved or released, by judgment or otherwise, the plaintiff or the plaintiff's attorney, upon reques…

In all cases where by reason of a change of circumstances which has occurred, shall occur, or is reasonably foreseeable, subsequent to the creation, heretofore or hereafter, of a trust by any deed, will or other instrument, compliance by the trustee or trustees with the terms of …

I. The superior court shall exercise jurisdiction pursuant to RSA 498:4-a through RSA 498:4-e only where the claims or defenses raised are related to a matter otherwise pending before or within the jurisdiction of the superior court. In all other cases involving the doctrine of c…

Whenever it shall be made to appear to the court that the intention of the testator or settlor of a charitable trust will be frustrated in whole or in part by reason of a tax imposed under the United States Internal Revenue Code on the income or principal of the trust, or by reas…

Whenever it shall appear to the court that any proposed cy pres application would not be proper because it is in violation of New Hampshire law, the court shall enter a decree denying said proposed cy pres application and stating the reason therefor.

For the purposes of this section and for the purposes of any petition for deviation under RSA 498:4 or under common law equity powers the following words shall have the meanings ascribed hereinbelow unless the context indicates otherwise: I. "Charitable trust" shall mean any fidu…

If the superior court, upon application by the trustee or trustees, finds that the continuance of a charitable trust is impracticable or unfeasible, and that the charitable purpose of the settlor or testator can be accomplished by a transfer of the trust assets to another charita…

An action may be brought in the superior court by any person claiming title to, or any interest in, real or personal property, or both, against any person who may claim to own the same, either in fee, for years, for life or in reversion or remainder, or to have any interest in th…

In any action brought under the provisions of RSA 498:5-a, if the plaintiff therein alleges that there are or that he believes there are or that there may be persons who have or may have some estate or interest in such real or personal property, but such persons cannot be located…

Each defendant in an action brought under the provisions of RSA 498:5-a shall, in his answer, state whether or not he claims any estate or interest in, or encumbrance on, such property, or any part thereof, and, if so, the nature and extent of the estate, interest or encumbrance …

I. The court in any action brought under the provisions of RSA 498:5-a shall hear the several claims and determine the rights of the parties, whether derived from deeds, wills or other instruments or courses of title, and may determine the construction of the same, and may render…

I. A person claiming title to real property may bring an action in superior court to extinguish rights to minerals deeded at least 50 years before the filing of the action, by a predecessor in title, to any person who is unknown to the plaintiff or cannot be located, or if the pa…

Any legal right, public or private, infringed by a change in the water level of a natural lake or pond, or by the casting or dropping into a watercourse of sawdust or other waste of a saw or lumber mill or any other material, and the water rights of riparian proprietors on a stre…

When goods or chattels are unlawfully withheld from the owner, proceedings in equity may be had for a discovery, for a restoration of the property and for such other relief as justice may require.

When an estate, property, interest, right, or credit, legal or equitable, of a debtor against whom execution has been issued and returned unsatisfied is alleged to be so held that it cannot be reached, or to have been conveyed by the debtor in fraud of his creditors, or to be hel…

The provisions of RSA 498:8 shall not apply to property exempt from attachment or to trust assets or a beneficiary's or settlor's interest in a trust to the extent protected by article 5 of RSA 564-B from the claim, attachment or reach of a creditor or assignee.