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Terms Used In New Hampshire Revised Statutes 524:2

  • person: may extend and be applied to bodies corporate and politic as well as to individuals. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:9
  • Plea: In a criminal case, the defendant's statement pleading "guilty" or "not guilty" in answer to the charges, a declaration made in open court.
  • real estate: shall include lands, tenements, and hereditaments, and all rights thereto and interests therein. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:21
Any person against whom an action is brought for the recovery of real estate may, with the plea, file a brief statement, setting forth that such person and the persons under whom such person makes the claim have been in the actual peaceable possession of such real estate, under a supposed legal title, for more than 6 years before the action was begun, and that the value of the real estate has been increased by them by buildings or other improvements.