Terms Used In New Hampshire Revised Statutes > Chapter 227-C - Historic Preservation

• Answer: The formal written statement by a defendant responding to a civil complaint and setting forth the grounds for defense.
• Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
• Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
• Bequest: Property gifted by will.
• Commissioner: means the commissioner of the department of natural and cultural resources or his designee. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 227-C:1
• Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Council: means the state historical resources council. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 227-C:1
• Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
• Department: means the department of natural and cultural resources. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 227-C:1
• Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
• Equitable: Pertaining to civil suits in "equity" rather than in "law." In English legal history, the courts of "law" could order the payment of damages and could afford no other remedy. See damages. A separate court of "equity" could order someone to do something or to cease to do something. See, e.g., injunction. In American jurisprudence, the federal courts have both legal and equitable power, but the distinction is still an important one. For example, a trial by jury is normally available in "law" cases but not in "equity" cases. ^{Source: U.S. Courts}
• farm: means any land, buildings, or structures on or in which agriculture and farming operations or activities are carried out or conducted and shall include the residence or residences of owners, occupants, or employees located on such land. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:34-a
• Field investigation: means the search for, identification of, and evaluation of historic resources, and the study of the traces of human culture at any land or underwater historic property, by means of inspection, surveying, digging, excavating, or removing surface or subsurface objects, or going onto a site with that intent. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 227-C:1
• 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
• Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
• Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
• governor and council: shall mean the governor with the advice and consent of the council. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:31-a
• Historic preservation: means the research, excavation, protection, restoration and rehabilitation of buildings, structures, objects, districts, areas and sites significant in the history, architecture, archeology, or culture of this state, its communities, or the nation. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 227-C:1
• Historic property: means any building, structure, object, district, area or site that is significant in the history, architecture, archeology or culture of this state, its communities, or the nation. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 227-C:1
• Historic resource: means :
  (a) Any historic property which has been listed in the New Hampshire state register of historic places or has been determined eligible for the New Hampshire state register of historic places by the division of historical resources or which has been listed in the National Register of Historic Places or has been determined by the keeper of the register to be eligible for the National Register using the criteria for evaluation in 36 C. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 227-C:1
• Human remains: or "remains" means any part of the body of deceased human being in any stage of decomposition, together with any artifacts or other materials known or reliably assumed to have been on or interred with the deceased human being. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 227-C:1
• Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
• Office: means the state historic preservation office, also known as the division of historical resources, department of natural and cultural resources. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 227-C:1
• person: may extend and be applied to bodies corporate and politic as well as to individuals. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:9
• real estate: shall include lands, tenements, and hereditaments, and all rights thereto and interests therein. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:21
• Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
• remains: means any part of the body of deceased human being in any stage of decomposition, together with any artifacts or other materials known or reliably assumed to have been on or interred with the deceased human being. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 227-C:1
• Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
• Skeletal analyst: means the member of the professional staff or another professional person designated by the director of the division of historical resources with the approval of the commissioner having:
  (a) A postgraduate degree in a field involving the study of the human skeleton such as skeletal biology, forensic osteology, or other relevant aspects of physical anthropology or medicine;
  (b) A minimum of one year's experience in conducting laboratory reconstruction and analysis of skeletal remains, including the differentiation of the physical characteristics denoting cultural or biological affinity; and
  (c) Designed and executed a skeletal analysis, and presented the written results and interpretations of such analysis. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 227-C:1
• state: when applied to different parts of the United States, may extend to and include the District of Columbia and the several territories, so called; and the words "United States" shall include said district and territories. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:4
• Unmarked human burial: means any interment of human remains for which there exists no grave marker or any other historical documentation providing information as to the identity of the deceased. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 227-C:1
• vacancy shall be filled for the unexpired term: when used in connection with appointments to the state service by the governor and council shall be construed to mean that the successor shall be commissioned for a term equal in length to the unexpired balance of the term of his predecessor and where an appointee has held over beyond the expiration date of his commission, so far as the appointment of a successor is concerned, a vacancy shall be deemed to have been created. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:34