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Terms Used In New Hampshire Revised Statutes 559:10

  • 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
  • Oath: A promise to tell the truth.
  • oath: shall include "affirmation" in all cases where by law an affirmation may be substituted for an oath; and, in like cases, the word "sworn" shall include the word "affirmed. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:24
  • Probate: Proving a will
  • real estate: shall include lands, tenements, and hereditaments, and all rights thereto and interests therein. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:21
The administrator, before a license for sale of real estate at public auction shall be granted, shall take the following oath, and shall file a certificate thereof in the probate office: I . . . . . . . . . . do solemnly swear that, in disposing of such estate of . . . . . . . . . . deceased as I may be licensed to sell, I will use my best judgment in fixing and advertising the time and place of sale, and will exert my utmost endeavor that the same shall be sold in such manner as will be of the greatest advantage to the persons interested in said estate, without any sinister or selfish view or motive whatever. So help me God. Before receiving a license to sell at private sale the administrator shall take the foregoing oath, omitting the words “in fixing and advertising the time and place of sale.”