Terms Used In New Hampshire Revised Statutes > Chapter 551 - Wills

• Adult: means an individual who is not a minor. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 170-B:2
• 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.
• Agency: means any person licensed by existing law to place minors for adoption. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 170-B:2
• Alcohol: means that substance known as ethyl alcohol or hydrated oxide of ethyl alcohol which is commonly produced by the fermentation or distillation of grain, starch, molasses, sugar, potatoes or other substances, including all solids, powders, crystals, dilutions and mixtures of these substances. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Alpine slide: means a recreational facility open to the general public, equipped with at least one permanent slide and at least one passenger tramway device as described in N. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
• Answer: The formal written statement by a defendant responding to a civil complaint and setting forth the grounds for defense.
• 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.
• Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
• Armed forces: means the United States Army, Army Reserve, Navy, Naval Reserve, Marine Corps, Marine Corps Reserve, Air Force, Air Force Reserve, Space Force, Coast Guard, Coast Guard Reserve, Army National Guard, and the Air National Guard. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:50
• Arraignment: A proceeding in which an individual who is accused of committing a crime is brought into court, told of the charges, and asked to plead guilty or not guilty.
• Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.
• Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
• Authorized agency: means the New Hampshire department of health and human services or a licensed child-placing agency. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 170-C:2
• Bed and breakfast: means a building or buildings regularly used and kept open as such in a bona fide manner for the feeding and lodging of transient guests. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Beer: means beer, specialty beer as defined by N. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Beneficiary: A person who is entitled to receive the benefits or proceeds of a will, trust, insurance policy, retirement plan, annuity, or other contract. ^{Source: OCC}
• Bequest: Property gifted by will.
• Beverage vendor: means an individual, partnership, limited liability company, or corporation, including any subsidiaries thereof, which sells beverages or specialty beverages to wholesale distributors. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Birth father: means a person or persons other than a legal father who has been named, pursuant to N. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 170-B:2
• Birth mother: means a woman who gestates an embryo conceived by natural or artificial insemination, in vitro fertilization, or preembryo transfer, or becomes a parent pursuant to N. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 170-B:2
• Board: means the juvenile parole board. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 170-H:2
• Bowling facility: means a facility equipped with 6 or more regulation lanes in operating condition. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Brew pub: means a manufacturer of beer, specialty beer, or cider not exceeding 2,500 barrels annually, which as a functional part of its business, maintains a full service restaurant serving the beer it manufactures as well as other beverage and liquor as allowed by N. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Brewer: means a person who owns or operates a brewery. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Brewery: means any place or premises where any beer is manufactured and all offices, granaries, mash-rooms, cooling-rooms, vaults, yards, cellars, and storerooms connected therewith or where any part of the process of manufacture of beer is carried on, or where any apparatus connected with such manufacture is kept or used, or where any of the products of brewing or fermentation are stored or kept. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• bylaw: when used in reference to legislative action taken by a city, town, county or village district shall have the same meaning as an ordinance and shall be subject to the same procedures for enactment. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:45
• Caterer: means a person who provides meals or other food as well as liquor or beverage service to private groups on premises approved by the commission for such service. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Charity: An agency, institution, or organization in existence and operating for the benefit of an indefinite number of persons and conducted for educational, religious, scientific, medical, or other beneficent purposes.
• Child: means a son or daughter, whether by birth or by adoption. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 170-B:2
• Child: or "minor" means a person less than 18 years of age. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 170-C:2
• Cider: means either the naturally fermented expressed juice of apples or the fermented expressed juice of apples to which activated yeast is added, containing not less than
  1/2 of one percent alcohol by volume at 60 degrees Fahrenheit, which may contain flavoring, coloring or related ingredients and may be carbonated or fermented in a sealed container to produce a sparkling beverage or liquor. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Cocktail lounge: means a room operated for the purpose of serving liquor and beverages without the benefit of food. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Codicil: An addition, change, or supplement to a will executed with the same formalities required for the will itself.
• Commission: means the state liquor commission. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Commissioner: means the commissioner of the department of health and human services. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 170-B:2
• Commissioner: means the commissioner of the department of health and human services. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 170-H:2
• Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
• Continuance: Putting off of a hearing ot trial until a later time.
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Convention center: means a facility with seating for at least 600 persons consisting of at least one public dining area, which shall seat at least 175 persons, where meals are regularly served, and at least one cocktail lounge with a capacity of at least 200 persons, and convention rooms which together shall seat at least 225 persons and which are regularly used for the assembly of persons participating in business, political, professional or other organizational gatherings. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
• 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.
• Corporation: means a corporation organized and incorporated under the laws of this state or authorized to transact business within this state. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Court: means probate court. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 170-B:2
• Court: means the probate court. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 170-C:2
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Decedent: A deceased person.
• Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
• Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
• Delinquent: means any person who has been adjudicated delinquent by a district or superior court and committed to the custody of the commissioner. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 170-H:2
• Department: means the department of health and human services. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 170-B:2
• Department: means the department of health and human services. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 170-H:2
• Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
• Deposition: An oral statement made before an officer authorized by law to administer oaths. Such statements are often taken to examine potential witnesses, to obtain discovery, or to be used later in trial.
• Designee: means a person designated in writing by the owner or operator of a business to hold the liquor license for that particular business. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Devise: To gift property by will.
• Direct shipper: means any licensee outside the state of New Hampshire who accepts orders placed from New Hampshire, by mail, telephone, Internet, or any electronic or other means, for liquor or beverages and who ships, packages for shipment, or facilitates in any way shipment of said liquor or beverages by a licensed carrier to a New Hampshire location. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
• Dismissal: The dropping of a case by the judge without further consideration or hearing. ^Source:
• Docket: A log containing brief entries of court proceedings.
• Donee: The recipient of a gift.
• Donor: The person who makes a gift.
• Drink rail: means a rail or shelf constructed at bar height. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Drug store: means a business licensed under the provisions of N. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• E-liquid: means any liquid, oil, or wax product containing, but not limited to, nicotine or cannabis intended for use in devices used for inhalation. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Equitable: Pertaining to civil suits in "equity" rather than in "law." In English legal history, the courts of "law" could order the payment of damages and could afford no other remedy. See damages. A separate court of "equity" could order someone to do something or to cease to do something. See, e.g., injunction. In American jurisprudence, the federal courts have both legal and equitable power, but the distinction is still an important one. For example, a trial by jury is normally available in "law" cases but not in "equity" cases. ^{Source: U.S. Courts}
• 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
• Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
• Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
• 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
• Food service business: means a business kept, used, maintained, advertised, and held out to the public primarily as a place where meals are served. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
• Full service restaurant: means a room or rooms capable of seating, at tables with chairs or at booths, at least 20 guests at one time. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Function room: means a room or rooms which may be utilized for private groups in addition to a licensee's full service restaurant public dining room. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
• Golf facility: means a commercially operated facility, whether publicly or privately owned, offering golf facilities for a fee, having as part of such facilities, a golf course of not less than 9 holes and an average total of not less than 1,000 yards per 9 holes. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• governing body: shall mean the board of selectmen in a town, the board of aldermen or council in a city or town with a town council, the school board in a school district or the village district commissioners in a village district, or when used to refer to unincorporated towns or unorganized places, or both, the county commissioners. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:48
• governor and council: shall mean the governor with the advice and consent of the council. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:31-a
• Grand jury: agreement providing that a lender will delay exercising its rights (in the case of a mortgage,
• Grantor: The person who establishes a trust and places property into it.
• Grocery or convenience store: means any retail establishment where groceries are regularly and customarily sold for consumption off premises. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Guardian: A person legally empowered and charged with the duty of taking care of and managing the property of another person who because of age, intellect, or health, is incapable of managing his (her) own affairs.
• Guardian: means a person so appointed by the probate court. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 170-B:2
• Guardian ad litem: means a person appointed by the court to protect the interest of a minor or an incompetent in a case before the court. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 170-C:2
• Guardianship of the person: with respect to a minor means the duty and authority to make important decisions in matters having a permanent effect on the life and development of the minor, and to be concerned about the general welfare of the minor. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 170-C:2
• Habeas corpus: A writ that is usually used to bring a prisoner before the court to determine the legality of his imprisonment. It may also be used to bring a person in custody before the court to give testimony, or to be prosecuted.
• Hotel: means a facility regularly used, maintained and kept open for the feeding and lodging of transient guests. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Indemnification: In general, a collateral contract or assurance under which one person agrees to secure another person against either anticipated financial losses or potential adverse legal consequences. ^{Source: FDIC}
• Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
• Intestate: Dying without leaving a will.
• 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}
• Legacy: A gift of property made by will.
• Legal custody: means a status created by court order, embodying the following rights and responsibilities:
  (a) The right to have the physical possession of the child;
  (b) The right and the duty to protect, train and discipline the child; and
  (c) The responsibility to provide the child with food, clothing, shelter, education and ordinary medical care, provided that such rights and responsibilities shall be exercised subject to the powers, rights, duties and responsibilities of the guardian of the person and subject to residual parental rights and responsibilities if these have not been terminated by judicial decree. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 170-C:2
• Legal father: means :
  (a) The person designated as the father pursuant to N. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 170-B:2
• Legatee: A beneficiary of a decedent
• License: means the authority granted by the commission to engage in the sale of liquor, wine, beverages, tobacco products, or e-cigarettes otherwise unlawful unless evidenced by such document. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Licensed establishment: means premises licensed to sell liquor, wine or beverages. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Licensee: means the person to whom a license of any kind is issued by the commission. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
• Limited liability company: means a limited liability company organized under the laws of this state or authorized to transact business within the state. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Liquor: means all distilled and rectified spirits, alcohol, wines, fermented and malt liquors and cider, of over 6 percent alcoholic content by volume at 60 degrees Fahrenheit. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Liquor and wine representative: means a person who offers for sale or solicits orders for the sale of any liquor or wine or both. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Liquor manufacturer: means a licensee who produces liquor from raw materials by the process of fermentation and distillation. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Liquor vendor: means an individual, partnership, limited liability company or corporation, which sells liquor and fortified wines containing more than 15. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Live entertainment: means at least one person employed with or without compensation to entertain guests or patrons on the premises of a licensed establishment and shall include, but not be limited to, musicians, disc jockeys, theater companies and other related performers. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Mead: means an alcoholic beverage primarily made from honey, water, and yeast, and which may contain fruit, fruit juices, spices, or herbs added before or after fermentation has completed, except that the ratio of fermentable sugars from honey must exceed 50 percent of the total fermentable sugars used to produce mead. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Minor: or "minor child" means any individual under the age of 18. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 170-B:2
• minor: means a person less than 18 years of age. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 170-C:2
• minor child: means any individual under the age of 18. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 170-B:2
• month: shall mean a calendar month, and the word "year" a calendar year, unless otherwise expressed; and the word "year" shall be equivalent to the expression "year of our Lord. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:8
• Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
• Nolo contendere: No contest-has the same effect as a plea of guilty, as far as the criminal sentence is concerned, but may not be considered as an admission of guilt for any other purpose.
• Oath: A promise to tell the truth.
• 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
• 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.
• Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
• Parent: means mother, birth father, legal father, or adoptive parent, but such term shall not include a parent as to whom the parent-child relationship has been terminated by judicial decree or voluntarily surrender. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 170-B:2
• Parent: means (a) the mother, (b) a father as to whom a child is legitimate, (c) a person as to whom a child is presumed to be a legitimate child, (d) an alleged father who is living with the mother and child or who has complied with the provisions of N. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 170-C:2
• Parole: means a conditional release from the custody of the department which allows a delinquent to serve the remainder of his commitment outside of an institution or facility operated by the department, contingent upon compliance with the terms and conditions of parole as established by the juvenile parole board. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 170-H:2
• Parties: includes the child, the petitioners, and the child's parents. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 170-C:2
• Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
• Person: means an individual, corporation, government or governmental subdivision or agency, business trust, estate, trust, partnership or association, or any other legal entity. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 170-B:2
• Person: means an individual, partnership, limited liability company or corporation. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• 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
• Plaintiff: The person who files the complaint in a civil lawsuit.
• Pleadings: Written statements of the parties in a civil case of their positions. In the federal courts, the principal pleadings are the complaint and the answer.
• 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}
• Premises: means and includes all parts of the contiguous real estate occupied by a licensee over which the licensee has direct or indirect control or interest and which the licensee uses in the operation of the licensed business, and which have been approved by the commission as proper places in which to exercise the licensee's privilege. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Private club: means an organization incorporated under the laws of this state, whose members are equal shareholders, whose assets belong to the members equally, and whose members have an equal vote in club affairs and a right to run for club offices. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Pro se: A Latin term meaning "on one's own behalf"; in courts, it refers to persons who present their own cases without lawyers.
• Probable cause: A reasonable ground for belief that the offender violated a specific law.
• Probate: Proving a will
• Probation: A sentencing alternative to imprisonment in which the court releases convicted defendants under supervision as long as certain conditions are observed.
• Prospective adoptive parent: means the petitioner named on an adoption petition filed in the court. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 170-B:2
• Public building: means any building maintained and available for any person, group, or organization, which may include retail business establishments, when they are not open to the public; licensed premises, provided there is a physical, immovable barrier between the licensed business and the rented area; and tents, gazebos, or other defined outdoor areas, provided 2 separate toilet facilities are located in the immediate vicinity. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
• Racetrack: means a facility which is licensed by the state's lottery commission, for pari-mutuel betting purposes or a commercial motor vehicle racetrack facility with a paved course of at least
  1/4 mile. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• 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.
• Rectifier: means a licensee who produces liquor by combining liquor with other products. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• 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.
• Reporter: Makes a record of court proceedings and prepares a transcript, and also publishes the court's opinions or decisions (in the courts of appeals).
• Residual parental rights and responsibilities: means those rights and responsibilities remaining with the parent (where there has not been termination of the parent-child relationship by judicial decree) after the transfer of legal custody and guardianship of the person, including but not necessarily limited to, the right to reasonable visitation, consent to adoption, the right to determine the child's religious affiliation, and the responsibility for support. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 170-C:2
• Restaurant: means a space, in a suitable or permanent building, kept, used, maintained, advertised and held out to the public to be a place where meals are regularly served. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Retail outlet: means any florist shop, grocery or convenience store, department store, drug store, restaurant, hotel, motel, or any other retail establishment approved by the commission. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Retailer: when used with respect to tobacco products or e-cigarettes, means any person who sells tobacco products or e-cigarettes to consumers, and any vending machine in which tobacco products are sold. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Safekeeping: means a temporary voluntary surrender of the license privileges granted to a licensee, which provides for a moratorium on all licensing requirements under this title for that license type during the period of time the license is placed in safekeeping. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Sampling: means distributing free tobacco products to consumers for promotional purposes. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• 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
• Service bar: means a permanent area used only for the preparation of liquor, wine or beverage for the service to tables of patrons by employees. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Service bar-portable: means a service bar which is movable and utilized in function or banquet rooms at such times that they are being utilized for private parties. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Service of process: The service of writs or summonses to the appropriate party.
• 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.
• Sexual orientation: means having or being perceived as having an orientation for heterosexuality, bisexuality, or homosexuality. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:49
• Single serve: means a specialty beverage container that does not exceed 16 ounces. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Ski facility-downhill: means an area equipped with at least one of the licensed tramway devices defined under N. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Specialty beer: means any beer as defined in N. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Specialty beverage: means any wine based product or liquor based product with other liquids added for human consumption having a combined alcoholic content of not less than 6 percent alcohol by volume and not more than 8 percent alcohol by volume at 60 degrees Fahrenheit and sold in single serve ready to drink containers that shall not exceed 16 ounces. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Specialty cider: means either the naturally fermented expressed juice of apples or the fermented expressed juice of apples to which activated yeast is added, either of which contains not less than 8 percent and not more than 12 percent alcohol by volume at 60 degrees Fahrenheit. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• 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.
• Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
• Subpoena duces tecum: A command to a witness to produce documents.
• Surrender: means the release of all parental rights, including but not limited to care, custody, and control of the child, by a parent, legal guardian, or agency. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 170-B:2
• 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
• Tenant brewer: means a person who has a brewer's notice approved by the United States Department of the Treasury Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau allowing the person to engage in an alternating brewery proprietorship. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Testator: A male person who leaves a will at death.
• Testify: Answer questions in court.
• Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
• Tobacco products: means cigarettes, loose tobacco, and smokeless tobacco. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Transcript: A written, word-for-word record of what was said, either in a proceeding such as a trial or during some other conversation, as in a transcript of a hearing or oral deposition.
• Trial: A hearing that takes place when the defendant pleads "not guilty" and witnesses are required to come to court to give evidence.
• 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
• Uphold: The decision of an appellate court not to reverse a lower court decision.
• Vending machine: means any self-service device which, upon insertion of money, tokens, or any other form of payment, dispenses tobacco, cigarettes, or any other tobacco product. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Venue: The geographical location in which a case is tried.
• Vessel: means any watercraft approved and inspected by the U. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Voluntarily mediated agreement: means an agreement made through a court-approved mediation program between the department, birth parents, and prospective adoptive parents in contemplation of post-adoption sharing of information and/or contact regarding the adoption of a child who is either under the legal custody or guardianship of the department. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 170-B:2
• Wholesale distributor: means a person licensed by the commission to engage in the purchase of beverages only from the holders of wholesale distributor licenses, beverage manufacturer licenses, beverage vendor licenses, brew pub licenses, or nano brewery licenses. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Wine manufacturer retail outlet: means an outlet for the sale, sampling, and promotion of wine and other products manufactured by a wine manufacturer licensee. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Wine vendor: means an individual, partnership, limited liability company, or corporation, which sells table wine to the state, containing more than 6 percent but not more than 24 percent alcoholic content by volume at 60 degrees Fahrenheit. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Wine-domestic: means any wine containing more than 6 percent alcohol by volume and not more than 24 percent alcohol by volume, which is manufactured or bottled in this state from grapes or other fruits grown in the state, or brought into the state in their natural state for the purpose of fermentation and blending with wine produced from New Hampshire grapes or fruits, or wine which is brought into this state by a manufacturer to be blended with wine produced from New Hampshire grapes or fruits by a winery located in this state. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Wine-fortified: means wine including aperitif, marsala, muscatel, port, or sherry as traditionally defined by the industry, with an alcohol content of more than 15. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Wine-table: means a product obtained by the fermentation of the natural content of fruit or other agricultural products containing sugar and containing more than 6 percent but not more than 18 percent alcoholic content by volume at 60 degrees Fahrenheit. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Writ: A formal written command, issued from the court, requiring the performance of a specific act.