Title LI, Courts

The expenses of a justice of the supreme court while acting in the superior court shall be paid from the appropriation for the expenses of the justices of the superior court.

The chief justice of the superior court shall appoint an administrative assistant who shall serve at his pleasure. The administrative assistant shall serve as fiscal officer of the superior court and shall perform such other duties as may be required by the chief justice and shal…

The justices and marital masters shall be entitled to receive their actual personal expenses when absent from their assigned court in the performance of their official duties. The justices and marital masters shall not be reimbursed for mileage to commute from the justice's or ma…

The superior court shall take cognizance of civil actions and pleas, real, personal, and mixed, according to the course of the common law, except such actions as are required to be brought in the family division under RSA 490-D, district courts under RSA 502-A, or the probate cou…

I. Without limiting the jurisdiction vested in any court in the state, and subject to the appointment of a presiding justice by the governor with the consent of the executive council as provided in this section, the supreme court may establish by court order not inconsistent with…

I. Without limiting the jurisdiction vested in any court in the state, and subject to the appointment of a presiding justice by the governor with the consent of the executive council as provided in this section, the supreme court may establish by court order not inconsistent with…

I. Without limiting the jurisdiction vested in any court in the state, and subject to the appointment of a presiding justice by the governor with the consent of the executive council as provided in this section, the supreme court may establish by court order not inconsistent with…

The superior court shall have jurisdiction to enter judgment against the state of New Hampshire founded upon any express or implied contract with the state, including specific performance and other equitable remedies that are not limited to money damages. Any action brought under…

I. A party seeking to recover upon a claim, counterclaim, or crossclaim, or to obtain a declaratory judgment, may, at any time after the defendant has appeared, move for summary judgment in his favor upon all or any part thereof. A party against whom a claim, counterclaim, or cro…

Justices of the superior court may administer oaths.

A justice shall not sit in any case in which he has been concerned as party or attorney or in any appeal in which he has acted as judge in the court below, or act as attorney or be of counsel for either party or give advice in any matter pending or which may come before the court…

No justice of the supreme or superior court shall be an officer in any railroad corporation in this state.

No justice shall be disqualified to sit because he is an inhabitant or taxpayer in the city or town which is a party to the case or is interested therein.

No judge of any court shall exercise such office, perform any act therein, or receive any fee or salary therefor until he shall have deposited in the office of the secretary of state a copy of the record of his birth, attested by the clerk of the town in which he was born, or, if…

I. Any full-time justice of the supreme, superior, district, or probate court who retires or has retired from regular active service prior to age 70 pursuant to RSA 100-C or any predecessor judicial retirement plan or system, may elect to take either senior active status or retir…

I. Any full-time justice of the supreme, superior, district, or probate court who is mandatorily retired from either regular active service or senior active service upon reaching age 70, and any part-time district or probate court justice who is mandatorily retired upon reaching …

Any retired full-time justice of the supreme, superior, district, or probate court who serves after retirement as a senior active status justice or a judicial referee shall be allowed his or her expenses and a per diem compensation determined by the supreme court upon recommendat…

No justice who has reached the mandatory retirement age of 70 years shall serve as a judge in any judicial capacity, except as a judicial referee pursuant to this chapter.

Whenever any judge shall attain the age of 70 years, the office held by him shall become vacant, and such vacancy shall be filled according to law.

Any supreme or superior court judge, full-time district court judge, or full-time probate court judge who is eligible to retire pursuant to the provisions of RSA 100-C may retire. The judge shall give not less than 30 days' notice nor more than 90 days' notice of the judge's inte…

All questions of law with respect to findings and rulings of a judicial referee assigned to the superior court, including the question of the sufficiency of the evidence to support such findings, may, in the discretion of said court, be transferred to the supreme court without he…

There is hereby established a judicial council which shall consist of the following: I. The 5 members of the judicial branch administrative council, appointed pursuant to supreme court rules. II. The attorney general or designee. III. A clerk or administrator of the superior cour…

The term of each member except the members of the judicial branch administrative council, the attorney general, the president-elect of the New Hampshire Bar Association, and the chairpersons of the senate judiciary committee and the house judiciary committee shall be for 3 years …

It shall be the duty of the judicial council: I. To serve as an institutional forum for the on-going and disinterested consideration of issues affecting the administration of justice. II. To survey and study continuously the administration of justice within the state and the orga…

The council shall report to the governor and council biennially on its activities and shall submit with the report its recommendations, if any, for improving the administration of justice. The biennial report, and any and all other reports, studies and recommendations may be prin…

The regular meetings of the council shall be held in January, April and October of each year, and at such other times as the council or its chairman may determine.

The judges and clerks of the courts of the state, sheriffs, county attorneys and all state, county or municipal officers shall render to the council such reports as it may request of matters within the scope of its duties.

The council shall elect a chairperson and a vice chairperson from among its members. The council shall appoint an executive director who shall be qualified by reason of education and experience and who shall serve at the pleasure of the council. The executive director's annual sa…

No judge, justice, magistrate, county commissioner or commissioners in whose court or before whom any suit at law or in equity, petition or other proceeding is pending or to be heard or tried shall listen to any statements in regard thereto, except in open court or in the presenc…

Any person who shall make any statements in regard to the merits of any such cause, suit or proceeding to any judge, justice, magistrate or county commissioner, except in open court or in the presence of all parties, shall be deemed guilty of contempt and shall be fined not more …

Any statement provided for in RSA 495:2, if made by a party to the suit or proceeding, shall be the ground for a continuance thereof, with costs.

I. Terms of the superior court shall be held annually at the following places in the following counties or judicial districts thereof: (a) For the county of Belknap: At Laconia. (b) For the county of Carroll: At Ossipee. (c) For the county of Cheshire: At Keene. (d) For the count…

In counties having more than one place for holding terms, the court may, for the convenience of parties, adjourn its sitting to any other of the places in such county designated for holding terms.

When such adjournment involves transferring the jury, jurors so transferred shall be entitled to such extra mileage as may be reasonable, to be determined by the presiding justice.

The clerk of court, and the sheriff and his deputies in attendance, shall, upon such adjournment, be allowed such extra compensation as may be reasonable, to be determined by the presiding justice.

I. It is the intent by the enactment of this chapter to provide a complete and exclusive procedure to govern all condemnations of property for public uses including the review of necessity, public uses, and net-public benefit, and the assessment of damages therefor. It is not int…

The superior court shall have the powers of a court of equity in the following cases: charitable uses; trusts other than those trusts described in RSA 564-B, over which the probate court has exclusive jurisdiction as provided in RSA 547:3, I(c) and (d); fraud, accident and mistak…

Causes in equity pending in one county, and motions and applications therein, may, upon reasonable notice to the parties or their attorneys, be heard and determined in any other county.

Prior to the time of filing the declaration of taking, the condemnor or its employees or agents shall have the right to enter upon any land or improvement which it has the power to condemn, in order to make studies, surveys, tests, soundings, and appraisals; provided, however, th…

Decrees and orders made by a justice, or by the court, when the clerk for the county in which the suit is pending is not in attendance shall be certified and forthwith transmitted, with the papers connected therewith, to the clerk, and be by him entered of record.

I. The condemnor, after the filing of the declaration of taking, shall be entitled to possession or right of entry upon deposit with the board of the amount of just compensation as estimated by the condemnor, and interest shall not accrue thereafter on such sum, but shall only ac…

The appointment of commissioners and receivers, the reference of questions to masters, granting writs of injunction to stay proceedings or waste, making interlocutory decrees or orders and other incidental proceedings may be had and done by the superior court in any county, but i…

I. If a condemnor has condemned a fee and thereafter abandons the purpose for which the property has been condemned, the condemnor may dispose of it by sale or otherwise; provided, however, that if the property has not been substantially improved, it may not be disposed of within…

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,…

The board shall have a clerk who shall be appointed by the board and who shall be a classified state employee. In the exercise of the authority and performance of the duties prescribed by law, the board shall have the authority, within the limits of the appropriation for such pur…