New Hampshire Revised Statutes 568:41 – Fraud
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Terms Used In New Hampshire Revised Statutes 568:41
- Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
- month: shall mean a calendar month, and the word "year" a calendar year, unless otherwise expressed; and the word "year" shall be equivalent to the expression "year of our Lord. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:8
- person: may extend and be applied to bodies corporate and politic as well as to individuals. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:9
- sworn: when applied to public officers required by the constitution to take oaths therein prescribed, shall refer to those oaths; when applied to other officers it shall mean sworn to the faithful discharge of the duties of their offices before a justice of the peace, or other person authorized to administer official oaths in such cases. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:25
A discharge shall not be granted, nor if granted be valid, if the debtor has wilfully sworn falsely as to any material fact in the course of the proceedings or if he has fraudulently concealed any part of his estate, or any books or writings relating thereto; if, being insolvent and having sufficient cause to believe himself so, the debtor has, within 6 months before the beginning of the proceedings, obtained on credit any money, goods, chattels or other thing of value with intent not to pay for the same, has destroyed, altered, mutilated or falsified any of his books, documents, papers, writings or securities or been privy thereto, or has made any fraudulent payment, gift, transfer, conveyance or assignment of any part of his property or spent any part thereof in gaming; if, having knowledge that a person has proved a false debt against his estate, the debtor has not disclosed the same to his assignee within one month after such knowledge; or if the debtor has procured the assent of any creditor to the discharge by pecuniary consideration.