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Terms Used In New Hampshire Revised Statutes 490-D:14

  • 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
  • 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.
  • Probate: Proving a will
During the implementation of the judicial branch family division, references in statutes involving the jurisdiction of the division to the superior, district, or probate courts shall be deemed to include the judicial branch family division. Following the full implementation of the division, those references shall be deemed to be to the judicial branch family division where it has exclusive jurisdiction of a subject matter and to the superior, district, or probate court and the judicial branch family division where the judicial branch family division has concurrent jurisdiction with one or more of those courts.