New Hampshire Revised Statutes 514:4 – Continuance, in Municipal Courts
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Terms Used In New Hampshire Revised Statutes 514:4
- Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
- Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
- 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
- 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
- Writ: A formal written command, issued from the court, requiring the performance of a specific act.
In actions before a municipal court, commenced by attachment, if no personal service is made upon the defendant by reason that he resides out of the state, or that his residence is unknown to the officer serving the writ, the action may be continued not less than sixty days, and the justice shall order notice of the pendency of the action to be given, by posting a copy of such order in two or more public places in the town where the defendant was last known to be an inhabitant in this state, forty days at least before the day to which the action is continued.