New Hampshire Revised Statutes 105:12 – Powers
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Terms Used In New Hampshire Revised Statutes 105:12
- Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.
- person: may extend and be applied to bodies corporate and politic as well as to individuals. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:9
Every watchman may arrest any person whom he shall find committing any disorder, disturbance, crime, or offense, or such as are strolling about the streets at unreasonable hours, who refuse to give an account, or are reasonably suspected of giving a false account, of their business or design, or who can give no account of the occasion of their being abroad.