Title LII, Actions, Process, and Service of Process

If judgment is rendered against the plaintiff in an action brought within the time limited therefor, or upon a writ of error thereon, and the right of action is not barred by the judgment, a new action may be brought thereon in one year after the judgment.

Breach of contract to marry shall not constitute an injury or wrong recognized by law, and no action, suit, or proceeding shall be maintained therefor.

I. If any person in good faith renders emergency care at the place of the happening of an emergency or to a victim of a crime or delinquent act or while in transit in an ambulance or rescue vehicle, to a person who is in urgent need of care as a result of the emergency or crime o…

I. No licensed physician, registered nurse or hospital shall be liable in a suit for damages as a result of any act or omission related to advice, consultation or orders given in good faith to emergency medical care providers licensed under RSA 153-A, by radio, telephone or other…

I. No person who is a volunteer, "part paid" or "call" member of a nonprofit fire department, emergency service or rescue squad operating in any political subdivision shall be held personally liable in any action to recover for personal injury or property damage arising out of an…

When a police officer, firefighter, or other emergency services worker from an out-of-state entity responds to an emergency in New Hampshire, such out-of-state entity and its employees and volunteers shall have all the same liability limitations to which a New Hampshire entity, p…

I. Any engineer or engineering firm, architect, or architectural firm licensed pursuant to RSA 310-A who, in good faith, voluntarily and without charge or compensation, acting under the direction of the director of the division of homeland security and emergency management, the s…

In determining whether the person against whom a malpractice claim has been made has met the applicable standard of care, the jury or judge shall not be bound or limited by the standard of care accepted or established with respect to any particular geographical area or locality, …

I. An owner, occupant, or lessee of land, including the state or any political subdivision, who without charge permits any person to use land for recreational purposes or as a spectator of recreational activity, shall not be liable for personal injury or property damage in the ab…

I. As used in this section: (a) "Donor" means any person, corporation, unincorporated business entity, non-profit corporation or entity which donates food or harvests food for distribution. "Donor" includes any non-profit "food bank" which shall collect, store and distribute food…

I. For the purposes of this section: (a) "Director" means a person who serves without compensation on the board of trustees or board of directors of a charitable organization or society organized or incorporated in this state or having a principal place of business in this state.…

I. Any person who is a volunteer of a nonprofit organization or government entity shall be immune from civil liability in any action brought on the basis of any act or omission resulting in damage or injury to any person if: (a) The nonprofit organization or government entity has…

I. Any person who acts as an agent to the department of health and human services or the department of safety by providing assistance in response to a specific public health or public safety incident shall be protected from claims and civil actions arising from acts committed wit…

I. No health care facility licensed under RSA 151, licensed physician, registered nurse, certified physician associate or qualified medical technician or medical technologist ordered by a law enforcement officer to perform a test, medical examination or procedure on a person in t…

No law enforcement officer or agency shall be held liable for damages resulting from injuries caused by a dog used in law enforcement work provided that: I. The officer and the dog have completed training together and received certification from a nationally recognized organizati…

I. In this section: (a) "Engages in an equine activity" means rides or drives an equine; or assists in medical treatment of an equine; or is a passenger upon an equine; or is a passenger in a vehicle drawn by an equine; or trains, whether mounted or unmounted, an equine; or who i…

I. If the parties have agreed in writing that an action on a controversy may be brought in this state and the agreement provides the only basis for the exercise of jurisdiction, a court of this state will entertain the action if: (a) the court has power under the law of this stat…

Any person, including any insurer, who makes an advance or partial payment as described in RSA 508-B:1 shall, at the time of beginning payment, notify the recipient thereof in writing: I. That the payment is not any assurance that a final settlement of the claim will be made. II.…

I. No action for the recovery of real estate shall be brought after 20 years from the time the right to recover first accrued to the party claiming it or to some persons under whom the party claims. II. No action for the recovery of real estate pursuant to rights based on a possi…

No parent shall receive any portion of an award of damages or an out-of-court settlement resulting from any claim or action for wrongful death on behalf of such parent's dependent child, until such parent has paid in full any child support arrearages owed, if such parent: I. Was …

I. In this section: (a) "Manufacturer" means: (1) A person who is engaged in a business to import, make, produce, create, or assemble a qualified product, and who designs or formulates, or has engaged another person to design or formulate, a qualified product. (2) A seller of a q…

I. No commercial applicator as defined in RSA 489-C:1, II and certified under RSA 489-C:2, or his or her employer or principal, or an owner, occupant, or lessee of land whose premises is maintained by a commercial applicator certified under RSA 489-C:2, whether by contract with t…

If the person first entitled to bring an action for recovery of real estate is an infant or mentally incompetent at the time the right accrues, the action may be brought within 5 years after such disability is removed.

Failure to provide the written notice required by RSA 508-B:2 shall operate to toll the applicable statute of limitations from the time of such advance or partial payment until such written notice is actually given.

If the parties have agreed in writing that an action on a controversy shall be brought only in another state and it is brought in a court of this state, the court will dismiss or stay the action, as appropriate, unless: I. The court is required by statute to entertain the action;…

The provisions of this chapter shall be so construed as to effectuate the general purpose to make uniform the law of those states which enact it.

I. Except as otherwise provided by law, all personal actions, except actions for slander or libel, may be brought only within 3 years of the act or omission complained of, except that when the injury and its causal relationship to the act or omission were not discovered and could…

I. Except as otherwise provided in this section, all actions to recover damages for injury to property, injury to the person, wrongful death or economic loss arising out of any deficiency in the creation of an improvement to real property, including without limitation the design,…

In any personal action, the declaration or other affirmative pleading shall not specify or allege the amount of damages claimed, but shall, instead, state that the damages claimed are within any minimum or maximum jurisdictional limits of the court to which the pleading is addres…

I. In any action for personal injury, the damages awarded may include compensation for non-economic loss, including pain and suffering and such other elements of damage which are recognized by law and which are not objectively verifiable monetary losses. However, damages for non-…

I. Contingent fee agreements between attorney and client shall be governed by Rules of Professional Conduct, Rule 1.5 as it may be amended by the supreme court from time to time and by any other rules regarding fees which are adopted or amended by the court. II. No attorney shall…

Any person, firm, association or corporation which suffers damages as a result of a competitive bid for a project involving the construction, repair, remodeling, alteration, conversion, modernization, improvement, rehabilitation, replacement, or renovation of a building or struct…

A person, alleging to have been subjected to any offense under RSA 632-A or an offense under RSA 639:2 may commence a personal action at any time.

I. Except as otherwise provided by law, all personal actions or civil enforcement actions in which the state is a plaintiff shall be brought within 3 years of the date when the plaintiff agency, department, authority, or official possessed actual knowledge of the act, omission, o…

If any provision of this chapter or the application thereof to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the invalidity does not affect other provisions or applications of this chapter which can be given effect without the invalid provision or application, and to this end the p…

Actions of debt upon judgments, recognizances, and contracts under seal may be brought within 20 years after the cause of action accrued, and not afterward.

Actions upon notes secured by a mortgage of real estate may be brought so long as the plaintiff is entitled to bring an action upon the mortgage.

Writs of error may be sued out within 3 years after judgment and not afterward, unless allowed by the court for sufficient cause, upon petition and notice.

An infant or mentally incompetent person may bring a personal action within 2 years after such disability is removed.

If the defendant in a personal action was absent from and residing out of the state at the time the cause of action accrued, or afterward, the time of such absence shall be excluded in computing the time limited for bringing the action.

Writs, declarations, processes, indictments, answers, pleadings and entries of record in the courts shall be in the English language, and in no other.

A scire facias pursuant to RSA 509:9 shall be served upon the indorser within one year after judgment, and not afterward.

Writs issued by justices of municipal and district courts shall be under seal and directed to the sheriff of any county or his deputy or to any constable of any town in the county, or to either of said officers; provided, however, that writs of attachment shall be directed to the…

Writs issued by a justice of a municipal court having no clerk shall be signed by such justice, and shall be returnable at a day, hour and place named therein, and in other respects shall be substantially in the form prescribed.

If the defendant in an action before a municipal court has personal property liable to attachment in a county of which he is not an inhabitant, the original writ and execution may be directed to the sheriff of any county, his deputy or to any constable of any town in which the de…