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Terms Used In New Hampshire Revised Statutes 547-C:28

  • Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
  • Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
  • Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
  • 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
No partition or division of property shall be avoided by any conveyance made by a petitionee after the entry of the petition therefor, nor by any conveyance or other disposition, unless duly recorded or effected at the date of such entry, nor by any mortgage, attachment or lien thereon, whenever made, nor by the death of either party; but the share or interest of each petitioner shall be set off in severalty, and be subject to all legal claims thereon, as if the claimant had been a party thereto.