Terms Used In New Hampshire Revised Statutes > Chapter 551-A - Uniform International Wills Act

• Adult: means any individual 21 years of age, or older. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Affidavit: A written statement of facts confirmed by the oath of the party making it, before a notary or officer having authority to administer oaths.
• Airport: means any type of landing area open to the public, which has facilities including but not limited to hangars, refueling areas, maintenance or repair service and commercial scheduled passenger aviation operations. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Alcohol: means that substance known as ethyl alcohol or hydrated oxide of ethyl alcohol which is commonly produced by the fermentation or distillation of grain, starch, molasses, sugar, potatoes or other substances, including all solids, powders, crystals, dilutions and mixtures of these substances. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
• Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
• 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
• Armed forces: means the United States Army, Army Reserve, Navy, Naval Reserve, Marine Corps, Marine Corps Reserve, Air Force, Air Force Reserve, Space Force, Coast Guard, Coast Guard Reserve, Army National Guard, and the Air National Guard. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:50
• Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.
• Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
• Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
• Ballroom: means an indoor facility which has seating accommodations for at least 500 patrons and which provides live entertainment. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Bankruptcy: Refers to statutes and judicial proceedings involving persons or businesses that cannot pay their debts and seek the assistance of the court in getting a fresh start. Under the protection of the bankruptcy court, debtors may discharge their debts, perhaps by paying a portion of each debt. Bankruptcy judges preside over these proceedings.
• Baseline: Projection of the receipts, outlays, and other budget amounts that would ensue in the future without any change in existing policy. Baseline projections are used to gauge the extent to which proposed legislation, if enacted into law, would alter current spending and revenue levels.
• Bed and breakfast: means a building or buildings regularly used and kept open as such in a bona fide manner for the feeding and lodging of transient guests. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Beer: means beer, specialty beer as defined by N. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Beverage manufacturer retail outlet: means an outlet for the sale, sampling, and promotion of beverages and other products manufactured by a beverage manufacturer licensee. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Beverage vendor: means an individual, partnership, limited liability company, or corporation, including any subsidiaries thereof, which sells beverages or specialty beverages to wholesale distributors. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• biennially: when applied to meetings and elections in towns, shall mean the biennial meetings and elections required by law to be holden in the month of November biennially, dating from the commencement of biennial elections in 1878; and the word "annual" when applied to meetings and elections in towns, shall mean the annual meetings and elections required by law to be holden in the month of March. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:7
• Brew pub: means a manufacturer of beer, specialty beer, or cider not exceeding 2,500 barrels annually, which as a functional part of its business, maintains a full service restaurant serving the beer it manufactures as well as other beverage and liquor as allowed by N. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Brewer: means a person who owns or operates a brewery. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Brewery: means any place or premises where any beer is manufactured and all offices, granaries, mash-rooms, cooling-rooms, vaults, yards, cellars, and storerooms connected therewith or where any part of the process of manufacture of beer is carried on, or where any apparatus connected with such manufacture is kept or used, or where any of the products of brewing or fermentation are stored or kept. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Caterer: means a person who provides meals or other food as well as liquor or beverage service to private groups on premises approved by the commission for such service. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Cider: means either the naturally fermented expressed juice of apples or the fermented expressed juice of apples to which activated yeast is added, containing not less than
  1/2 of one percent alcohol by volume at 60 degrees Fahrenheit, which may contain flavoring, coloring or related ingredients and may be carbonated or fermented in a sealed container to produce a sparkling beverage or liquor. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Club-bottle: means a business, organized under the laws of this state, which maintains a premises that permits the storage of and the consumption of beverage or liquor and that operates with persons who, with or without compensation, furnish support services for the consumption of beverage and liquor to persons who have paid a reasonable fee for such services. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Cocktail lounge: means a room operated for the purpose of serving liquor and beverages without the benefit of food. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Commission: means the state liquor commission. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Common carrier: means a person who, for a fee, provides public transportation of goods or persons. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• 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.
• Contract brewer: means a brewery hired by a beverage manufacturer, nano brewery, or brew pub to produce a beverage for the beverage manufacturer. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Contract brewing arrangement: means a business relationship in which a beverage manufacturer, nano brewery, or brew pub pays another brewer to produce a beverage for the beverage manufacturer, nano brewer, or brew pub for sale. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Convention center: means a facility with seating for at least 600 persons consisting of at least one public dining area, which shall seat at least 175 persons, where meals are regularly served, and at least one cocktail lounge with a capacity of at least 200 persons, and convention rooms which together shall seat at least 225 persons and which are regularly used for the assembly of persons participating in business, political, professional or other organizational gatherings. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
• Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
• Corporation: means a corporation organized and incorporated under the laws of this state or authorized to transact business within this state. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
• Designee: means a person designated in writing by the owner or operator of a business to hold the liquor license for that particular business. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Direct shipper: means any licensee outside the state of New Hampshire who accepts orders placed from New Hampshire, by mail, telephone, Internet, or any electronic or other means, for liquor or beverages and who ships, packages for shipment, or facilitates in any way shipment of said liquor or beverages by a licensed carrier to a New Hampshire location. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Dismissal: The dropping of a case by the judge without further consideration or hearing. ^Source:
• E-cigarette: means any electronic smoking device composed of a mouthpiece, a heating element, a battery, and electronic circuits that may or may not contain nicotine or e-liquid. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
• Executor: A male person named in a will to carry out the decedent
• Fair market value: The price at which an asset would change hands in a transaction between a willing, informed buyer and a willing, informed seller.
• 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
• Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
• 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
• Food service business: means a business kept, used, maintained, advertised, and held out to the public primarily as a place where meals are served. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Full course meal: means a diversified selection of food which ordinarily cannot be consumed without the use of tableware and which cannot be conveniently consumed while standing or walking. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Full service restaurant: means a room or rooms capable of seating, at tables with chairs or at booths, at least 20 guests at one time. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• governing body: shall mean the board of selectmen in a town, the board of aldermen or council in a city or town with a town council, the school board in a school district or the village district commissioners in a village district, or when used to refer to unincorporated towns or unorganized places, or both, the county commissioners. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:48
• governor and council: shall mean the governor with the advice and consent of the council. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:31-a
• Guardian: A person legally empowered and charged with the duty of taking care of and managing the property of another person who because of age, intellect, or health, is incapable of managing his (her) own affairs.
• Host brewer: means a beverage manufacturer who has entered into host-tenant partnership with a tenant brewer licensed under N. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Hotel: means a facility regularly used, maintained and kept open for the feeding and lodging of transient guests. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Humidor: means a container or room specifically designed to store and age cigars within the optimal humidity range of 65 percent to 72 percent at room temperature, containing a humidification device or system designed to add or remove moisture from its interior space to maintain the desired level of humidity. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
• 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.
• justice: when applied to a magistrate, shall mean a justice of a municipal court, or a justice of the peace having jurisdiction over the subject-matter. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:12
• Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). ^{Source: OCC}
• legislative body: shall mean a town meeting, school district meeting, village district meeting, city or town council, mayor and council, mayor and board of aldermen, or, when used to refer to unincorporated towns or unorganized places, or both, the county convention. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:47
• License: means the authority granted by the commission to engage in the sale of liquor, wine, beverages, tobacco products, or e-cigarettes otherwise unlawful unless evidenced by such document. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Licensee: means the person to whom a license of any kind is issued by the commission. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
• Limited liability company: means a limited liability company organized under the laws of this state or authorized to transact business within the state. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Liquor: means all distilled and rectified spirits, alcohol, wines, fermented and malt liquors and cider, of over 6 percent alcoholic content by volume at 60 degrees Fahrenheit. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Liquor and wine representative: means a person who offers for sale or solicits orders for the sale of any liquor or wine or both. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Liquor manufacturer: means a licensee who produces liquor from raw materials by the process of fermentation and distillation. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Liquor vendor: means an individual, partnership, limited liability company or corporation, which sells liquor and fortified wines containing more than 15. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Live entertainment: means at least one person employed with or without compensation to entertain guests or patrons on the premises of a licensed establishment and shall include, but not be limited to, musicians, disc jockeys, theater companies and other related performers. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Markup: The process by which congressional committees and subcommittees debate, amend, and rewrite proposed legislation.
• Minor: means an individual under the age of 21. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• 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
• 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
• Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
• Off-sale: means table or fortified wine and beverage sold for consumption off the premises as authorized in this title. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
• Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
• Performing arts facility: means a non-profit facility which seats more than 50 persons and has as its primary purpose the encouragement, promotion and presentation of the performing arts for the benefit of the general public. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Person: means an individual, partnership, limited liability company or corporation. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• person: may extend and be applied to bodies corporate and politic as well as to individuals. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:9
• 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
• Plea: In a criminal case, the defendant's statement pleading "guilty" or "not guilty" in answer to the charges, a declaration made in open court.
• Premises: means and includes all parts of the contiguous real estate occupied by a licensee over which the licensee has direct or indirect control or interest and which the licensee uses in the operation of the licensed business, and which have been approved by the commission as proper places in which to exercise the licensee's privilege. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Probate: Proving a will
• Probation: A sentencing alternative to imprisonment in which the court releases convicted defendants under supervision as long as certain conditions are observed.
• Product display: means any rack, bin, placard, poster, sign and the like, on or under which liquor, wine or beverage are displayed and sold. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Public building: means any building maintained and available for any person, group, or organization, which may include retail business establishments, when they are not open to the public; licensed premises, provided there is a physical, immovable barrier between the licensed business and the rented area; and tents, gazebos, or other defined outdoor areas, provided 2 separate toilet facilities are located in the immediate vicinity. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
• Racetrack: means a facility which is licensed by the state's lottery commission, for pari-mutuel betting purposes or a commercial motor vehicle racetrack facility with a paved course of at least
  1/4 mile. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Rail car: means any car which, while attached to a train operating for the transportation of passengers on a regular or special schedule, is utilized as a cocktail lounge. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Rectifier: means a licensee who produces liquor by combining liquor with other products. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Remainder: An interest in property that takes effect in the future at a specified time or after the occurrence of some event, such as the death of a life tenant.
• Restaurant: means a space, in a suitable or permanent building, kept, used, maintained, advertised and held out to the public to be a place where meals are regularly served. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Retail outlet: means any florist shop, grocery or convenience store, department store, drug store, restaurant, hotel, motel, or any other retail establishment approved by the commission. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Retailer: when used with respect to tobacco products or e-cigarettes, means any person who sells tobacco products or e-cigarettes to consumers, and any vending machine in which tobacco products are sold. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• road: shall include all bridges thereon. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:26
• Safekeeping: means a temporary voluntary surrender of the license privileges granted to a licensee, which provides for a moratorium on all licensing requirements under this title for that license type during the period of time the license is placed in safekeeping. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Sampling: means distributing free tobacco products to consumers for promotional purposes. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• seal: shall include an impression of the official seal made upon the paper alone, as well as an impression thereof made by means of wax, or a wafer, affixed thereto. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:11
• Single serve: means a specialty beverage container that does not exceed 16 ounces. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Specialty beer: means any beer as defined in N. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Specialty beverage: means any wine based product or liquor based product with other liquids added for human consumption having a combined alcoholic content of not less than 6 percent alcohol by volume and not more than 8 percent alcohol by volume at 60 degrees Fahrenheit and sold in single serve ready to drink containers that shall not exceed 16 ounces. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Specialty cider: means either the naturally fermented expressed juice of apples or the fermented expressed juice of apples to which activated yeast is added, either of which contains not less than 8 percent and not more than 12 percent alcohol by volume at 60 degrees Fahrenheit. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• 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
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
• Summons: Another word for subpoena used by the criminal justice system.
• 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
• Tenant brewer: means a person who has a brewer's notice approved by the United States Department of the Treasury Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau allowing the person to engage in an alternating brewery proprietorship. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Testator: A male person who leaves a will at death.
• Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
• Tobacco products: means cigarettes, loose tobacco, and smokeless tobacco. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• United States: shall include said district and territories. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:4
• Vending machine: means any self-service device which, upon insertion of money, tokens, or any other form of payment, dispenses tobacco, cigarettes, or any other tobacco product. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Vessel: means any watercraft approved and inspected by the U. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Wholesale distributor: means a person licensed by the commission to engage in the purchase of beverages only from the holders of wholesale distributor licenses, beverage manufacturer licenses, beverage vendor licenses, brew pub licenses, or nano brewery licenses. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Wine manufacturer retail outlet: means an outlet for the sale, sampling, and promotion of wine and other products manufactured by a wine manufacturer licensee. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Wine vendor: means an individual, partnership, limited liability company, or corporation, which sells table wine to the state, containing more than 6 percent but not more than 24 percent alcoholic content by volume at 60 degrees Fahrenheit. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1