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Terms Used In New Hampshire Revised Statutes 566:3

  • Common law: The legal system that originated in England and is now in use in the United States. It is based on judicial decisions rather than legislative action.
  • Donee: The recipient of a gift.
  • person: may extend and be applied to bodies corporate and politic as well as to individuals. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:9
A release executed by the donee of a power releasable according to N.H. Rev. Stat. § 566:1, or under common law, and delivered or filed in accordance with N.H. Rev. Stat. § 566:2, I, shall, subject to N.H. Rev. Stat. § 566:2, II, be effective to release the power to the extent in such release provided, whether it in substance provides for the release of all right of the donee to exercise the power, or for the release of all right of the donee to exercise the power otherwise than in respect of a part, therein defined, of the property subject to the power, or for the release of all right of the donee to exercise the power otherwise than to or for the benefit of, in trust for, or in favor of a person or persons or class or classes of persons, therein specified, or an object or objects or class or classes of objects, therein defined.