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NH Rev Stat § 498:6 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LI - Courts|Title 498 - Equity Powers and Proceedings|Section 498:6 - Water Rights.

    498:6 Water Rights. –||Any legal right, public or private, infringed by a change in the water level of a natural lake or pond, or by the casting or dropping into a watercourse of sawdust or other waste of a saw or lumber mill or any other material, and the water rights of riparian proprietors on a stream may be ascertained and enforced in a constitutional manner on a bill in equity without prior ascertainment of the right by an action at law; and rights of boating, fishing and navigation may be enforced on a bill in equity brought by the attorney general in the name of the state.|||Source. 1885, 87:1, 2. PS 205:3. PL 317:5. RL 371:6.|
NH Rev Stat § 498:7 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LI - Courts|Title 498 - Equity Powers and Proceedings|Section 498:7 - Detained Goods.

    498:7 Detained Goods. –||When goods or chattels are unlawfully withheld from the owner, proceedings in equity may be had for a discovery, for a restoration of the property and for such other relief as justice may require.|||Source. GS 190:2. GL 209:2. PS 205:6. PL 317:6. RL 371:7.|
NH Rev Stat § 498:8 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LI - Courts|Title 498 - Equity Powers and Proceedings|Section 498:8 - Creditors' Bills.

    498:8 Creditors' Bills. –||When an estate, property, interest, right, or credit, legal or equitable, of a debtor against whom execution has been issued and returned unsatisfied is alleged to be so held that it cannot be reached, or to have been conveyed by the debtor in fraud of his creditors, or to be held by others for the debtor's use, proceedings in equity may be had for a discovery and for relief; and the court shall make proper decrees and orders, and issue proper process to compel a discovery, to prevent a transfer of the property and to make application of so much thereof as in justice ought to be applied in satisfaction of the debt.|||Source. 1845, 234:1, 2. CS 181:19, 20. GS 190:3. GL 209:3. PS 205:7. PL 317:7. RL 371:8.|
NH Rev Stat § 498:9 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LI - Courts|Title 498 - Equity Powers and Proceedings|Section 498:9 - Limitation.

    498:9 Limitation. –||The provisions of RSA 498:8 shall not apply to property exempt from attachment or to trust assets or a beneficiary's or settlor's interest in a trust to the extent protected by article 5 of RSA 564-B from the claim, attachment or reach of a creditor or assignee.|||Source. 1845, 234:1. CS 181:19. GS 190:4. GL 209:4. PS 205:8. PL 317:8. RL 371:9. RSA 498:9. 1996, 180:3. 2004, 130:8, eff. Oct. 1, 2004.|
NH Rev Stat § 498:10 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LI - Courts|Title 498 - Equity Powers and Proceedings|Section 498:10 - Place of Hearing.

    498:10 Place of Hearing. –||Causes in equity pending in one county, and motions and applications therein, may, upon reasonable notice to the parties or their attorneys, be heard and determined in any other county.|||Source. GS 190:11. GL 209:11. PS 205:17. PL 317:9. RL 371:10.|
NH Rev Stat § 498:11 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LI - Courts|Title 498 - Equity Powers and Proceedings|Section 498:11 - Entry of Orders.

    498:11 Entry of Orders. –||Decrees and orders made by a justice, or by the court, when the clerk for the county in which the suit is pending is not in attendance shall be certified and forthwith transmitted, with the papers connected therewith, to the clerk, and be by him entered of record.|||Source. GS 190:13. GL 209:13. PS 205:19. PL 317:10. RL 371:11.|
NH Rev Stat § 498:12 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LI - Courts|Title 498 - Equity Powers and Proceedings|Section 498:12 - Interlocutory Orders.

    498:12 Interlocutory Orders. –||The appointment of commissioners and receivers, the reference of questions to masters, granting writs of injunction to stay proceedings or waste, making interlocutory decrees or orders and other incidental proceedings may be had and done by the superior court in any county, but injunctions so issued shall continue, unless sooner dissolved, only until the end of the next term for the county in which the proceedings are pending.|||Source. 1855, 1659:12. GS 190:12. GL 209:12. PS 205:18. 1909, 67:1. 1911, 33:1. PL 317:11. RL 371:12. RSA 498:12. 1967, 132:22, eff. July 18, 1967.|
NH Rev Stat § 498:13 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LI - Courts|Title 498 - Equity Powers and Proceedings|Section 498:13 - Fees of Masters, Etc.

    498:13 Fees of Masters, Etc. –||In special cases the court may, within the appropriation limits established by the legislature, allow a reasonable compensation to masters for their services and expenses, including stenographer's fees in cases where the employment of a stenographer is authorized by the court, which shall be paid by the state.|||Source. 1855, 1659:12. GS 190:12. GL 209:12. PS 205:18. 1909, 67:1. 1911, 33:1. PL 317:12. RL 371:13. RSA 498:13. 1983, 383:22, eff. Jan. 1, 1984.|
NH Rev Stat § 498:14 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LI - Courts|Title 498 - Equity Powers and Proceedings|Section 498:14 - Lien; Personal Property.

    498:14 Lien;  Personal Property. –||When a bill is filed under the provisions of RSA 498:8, the plaintiff may cause a certified copy thereof, and of the order issued thereon, to be filed in the office of the secretary of state, and such filing and the service of the bill upon such defendant shall constitute a lien, as against him and others having after-acquired rights, upon the personal estate, property, interest, right or credit to which the bill relates, or which may be discovered by the proceedings, for the performance of any decree or order relative thereto, in favor of the plaintiff against the defendant. The fees payable for filing a lien under this or the succeeding section shall be in accordance with RSA 478:17-g.|||Source. 1865, 4088:1. 1866, 4227:2. GS 190:5. GL 209:5. PS 205:9. 1913, 109:1. PL 317:13. RL 371:14. 2001, 102:46, eff. July 1, 2001.|
NH Rev Stat § 498:15 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LI - Courts|Title 498 - Equity Powers and Proceedings|Section 498:15 - Lien; Real Estate.

    498:15 Lien;  Real Estate. –||In the case of real estate, the lien shall be created by filing the certified copy in the office of the register of deeds of the county in which the real estate is situated.|||Source. 1866, 4227:5. GS 190:6. GL 209:6. PS 205:10. 1913, 109:2. PL 317:14. RL 371:15.|
NH Rev Stat § 498:16 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LI - Courts|Title 498 - Equity Powers and Proceedings|Section 498:16 - Attachment.

    498:16 Attachment. –||The plaintiff in a bill in equity, or the petitionant in a petition for divorce, shall have a writ of attachment or a trustee process, as of right, for the attachment of the goods, estate, money, rights or credits of the defendant or petitionee to secure the performance of any decree or order that may be made in the suit.|||Source. GS 190:7. 1869, 15:1. GL 209:7. 1879, 57:28. PS 205:11. PL 317:15. RL 371:16. 2004, 114:2, eff. May 17, 2004.|
NH Rev Stat § 498:17 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LI - Courts|Title 498 - Equity Powers and Proceedings|Section 498:17 - Repealed by 1981, 328:3, XIII, eff. Aug. 16, 1981.

    498:17 Repealed by 1981, 328:3, XIII, eff. Aug. 16, 1981. –|
NH Rev Stat § 498:18 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LI - Courts|Title 498 - Equity Powers and Proceedings|Section 498:18 - Service and Lien of Attachment.

    498:18 Service and Lien of Attachment. –||The officer to whom the writ is directed may attach property thereon as upon writs in civil actions, and such attachment shall constitute a lien upon the property attached to secure the performance of any decree or order that may be made in the suit.|||Source. 1866, 4227:4. GS 190:8. GL 209:8. PS 205:13. PL 317:17. RL 371:18.|
NH Rev Stat § 498:19 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LI - Courts|Title 498 - Equity Powers and Proceedings|Section 498:19 - Filing Writ of Attachment.

    498:19 Filing Writ of Attachment. –||The writ shall be filed in the clerk's office with the papers in the suit, and a memorandum of it shall be entered upon the docket.|||Source. PS 205:14. PL 317:18. RL 371:19.|
NH Rev Stat § 498:20 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LI - Courts|Title 498 - Equity Powers and Proceedings|Section 498:20 - Decrees in Attachment Cases.

    498:20 Decrees in Attachment Cases. –||If the decree or order requires the performance of any other thing than the payment of money, the court may make necessary orders and issue necessary process to secure or compel the performance of the decree or order by means of the property attached or held by trustee process.|||Source. 1866, 4227:4. GS 190:9. GL 209:9. PS 205:15. PL 317:19. RL 371:20.|
NH Rev Stat § 498:21 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LI - Courts|Title 498 - Equity Powers and Proceedings|Section 498:21 - Modification or Discharge of Lien.

    498:21 Modification or Discharge of Lien. –||Any lien acquired by proceedings in equity may be released, discharged or modified by the court in such manner and upon such terms as justice may require. When any such lien is dissolved or released, by judgment or otherwise, the plaintiff or the plaintiff's attorney, upon request, shall give to the defendant or owner of the property attached one or more discharges thereof, which may be filed or recorded in the office or offices where the lien was filed or recorded. The fees payable for filing or recording such discharges shall be in accordance with RSA 478:17-g.|||Source. 1865, 4088:2. 1866, 4227:3. GS 190:10. GL 209:10. PS 205:16. PL 317:20. RL 371:21. RSA 498:21. 1967, 132:23. 2001, 102:47, eff. July 1, 2001.|
NH Rev Stat § 498-A:1 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LI - Courts|Title 498-A - Eminent Domain Procedure Act|Section 498-A:1 - Intent of Chapter.

    498-A:1 Intent of Chapter. –||I. It is the intent by the enactment of this chapter to provide a complete and exclusive procedure to govern all condemnations of property for public uses including the review of necessity, public uses, and net-public benefit, and the assessment of damages therefor. It is not intended to enlarge or diminish the power of condemnation given by law to any condemnor and it is not intended to enlarge or diminish the rights given by law to any condemnee to challenge the necessity, public uses, and net-public benefit for any condemnation.||II. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, no person's private real property shall be taken pursuant to this chapter unless that real property is to be put to public use, as defined in RSA 498-A:2, VII.|||Source. 1971, 526:1. 1973, 256:1. 1995, 194:2. 2006, 324:10, eff. Jan. 1, 2007.|
NH Rev Stat § 498-A:2 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LI - Courts|Title 498-A - Eminent Domain Procedure Act|Section 498-A:2 - Definitions.

    498-A:2 Definitions. –||The following words, when used in this chapter, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise, shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this section:||I. "Condemn" means to take public and private property by authority of law for a public use;||II. "Condemnee" means the owner of record of property taken or to be taken, including tenants for life or years, remaindermen, reversioners, and holders of undischarged mortgages of record whose mortgages are dated not earlier than 20 years prior to the date of the filing of declaration of taking, municipalities with respect to unpaid taxes, fees and interest for which the municipality has been granted a lien or other interest in the property under the provisions of RSA 80, and guardians ad litem appointed pursuant to the provisions of this chapter. This definition does not include judgment creditors or other lien holders;||III. "Condemnor" means the entity, including the state of New Hampshire, taking property of another under authority of law for a public use;||IV. "Court" means the superior court of the state of New Hampshire;||V. "Property" shall include lands, tenements and hereditaments and all rights thereto and interests therein;||VI. "Board" shall mean the board of tax and land appeals established under RSA 71-B:1.||VII. "Public use" means:||(a) (1) The possession, occupation, and enjoyment of real property by the general public or governmental entities;||(2) The acquisition of any interest in real property necessary to the function of a public or private utility or common carrier either through deed of sale or lease;||(3) The acquisition of real property to remove structures beyond repair, public nuisances, structures unfit for human habitation or use, and abandoned property when such structures or property constitute a menace to health and safety; and||(4) Private use that occupies an incidental area within a public use; provided, that no real property may be condemned solely for the purpose of facilitating such incidental private use.||(b) Except as provided in subparagraphs (a)(2) and (4) of this paragraph, public use shall not include the public benefits resulting from private economic development and private commercial enterprise, including increased tax revenues and increased employment opportunities.|||Source. 1971, 526:1. 1977, 363:1, 2. 1982, 42:78. 1991, 241:1. 2006, 324:11, 24, eff. Jan. 1, 2007.|
NH Rev Stat § 498-A:3 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LI - Courts|Title 498-A - Eminent Domain Procedure Act|Section 498-A:3 - Jurisdiction.

    498-A:3 Jurisdiction. –||All condemnation proceedings other than by municipalities acting under RSA 38 or public utilities shall be brought in the office of the board.|||Source. 1971, 526:1. 1981, 493:3. 1981S, 3:2. 1982, 42:79. 1989, 124:4. 1990, 70:3, eff. Jan. 30, 1991.|
NH Rev Stat § 498-A:5 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LI - Courts|Title 498-A - Eminent Domain Procedure Act|Section 498-A:5 - Condemnation; Passage of Title; Declaration of Taking.

    498-A:5 Condemnation;  Passage of Title;  Declaration of Taking. –||I. Condemnation, under the power of condemnation given by law to a condemnor, which shall not be enlarged or diminished hereby, shall be effected only by the filing in the board of a declaration of taking, with sufficient copies for giving notice as required by RSA 498-A:8. The declaration shall be considered filed after receipt by the board and review by the board for compliance with paragraph II. If the board finds the declaration of taking is not compliant with paragraph II, the board may direct the filing of a more specific declaration of taking. After the giving of any bond and security as may be required under RSA 498-A:6, the title which the condemnor seeks in the property condemned shall pass to the condemnor on the date of such filing, and the condemnor shall be entitled to possession as provided in RSA 498-A:11. A declaration may include more than one parcel and multiple condemnees so long as the identity of the property taken of each condemnee and the nature of their interests are readily ascertainable.||II. The declaration of taking shall be in writing and executed by the condemnor, shall be captioned as a proceeding in rem and shall contain the following:||(a) The name and address of the condemnor;||(b) The name and address of each condemnee and the nature of each condemnee's interest;||(c) A specific reference to the statute, chapter and section thereof, under which the condemnation is authorized;||(d) A specific reference to the action, whether by ordinance, resolution or otherwise, by which the declaration of taking was authorized, including the date when such action was taken, and the place where the record thereof may be examined;||(e) A brief description of the purpose of the condemnation, the need therefor, and the public use to which the real property will be put;||(f) A description and plan of the property taken sufficient for the identification thereof, specifying the town, city and county wherein the property taken is located; and||(g) A statement of the nature of the property being taken.||III. The declaration of taking may be amended by order of the board, upon agreement of the parties, or upon appropriate motion filed by the condemnor. Such amendments shall be permitted for the purpose of correcting errors and omissions which may exist in the declaration of taking, but shall not be permitted for the purpose of increasing or decreasing the physical extent of the taking or the nature of the property taken.|||Source. 1971, 526:1. 1973, 256:9, 10. 1977, 363:9, 10. 1981, 493:5, 6. 1982, 42:79. 2005, 171:2. 2006, 324:12, eff. Jan. 1, 2007.|
NH Rev Stat § 498-A:6 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LI - Courts|Title 498-A - Eminent Domain Procedure Act|Section 498-A:6 - Security.

    498-A:6 Security. –||The board, upon motion of the condemnee, may require the condemnor to give such bond and security as the board deems proper; provided that such bond and security shall not be required when the state of New Hampshire is the condemnor.|||Source. 1971, 526:1. 1973, 256:7. 1981, 493:7, eff. June 29, 1981.|
NH Rev Stat § 498-A:7 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LI - Courts|Title 498-A - Eminent Domain Procedure Act|Section 498-A:7 - Recording Notice of Condemnation.

    498-A:7 Recording Notice of Condemnation. –||I. The condemnor, upon filing its declaration of taking, shall, within 48 hours thereof, record a notice of such filing in the office of the registry of deeds of the county in which the property is located. If the property is located in 2 or more counties, the notice shall be recorded in all such counties. The notice shall specify the date the declaration was filed, and shall contain the names of the condemnees, a description of the property taken in a form suitable for use in a deed, including sources of title, if ascertainable, and a plan of the property condemned sufficient for the identification thereof, and shall be indexed at such registry showing the condemnee set forth in the notice as though a grantor and the condemnor as though a grantee.||II. Whenever an amendment of the declaration of taking is made pursuant to RSA 498-A:5, III, an amended notice of condemnation shall be filed in the registry of deeds in which the original notice was filed pursuant to paragraph I. Such amended notice of condemnation shall be designated as such and shall conform to the requirements for a notice of condemnation set forth in paragraph I and, in addition, shall contain a reference by book and page to the original notice of condemnation.|||Source. 1971, 526:1. 1977, 363:11. 1981, 493:8, eff. June 29, 1981.|
NH Rev Stat § 498-A:8 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LI - Courts|Title 498-A - Eminent Domain Procedure Act|Section 498-A:8 - Notice to the Condemnee.

    498-A:8 Notice to the Condemnee. –||I. The clerk of the board shall forthwith issue an order of notice to each of the condemnees in the same manner as in the case of a petition in equity with a return date not less than 14 days from the date of filing the declaration of taking.||II. Such order of notice shall be served within or without the state of New Hampshire by any competent adult, in the same manner as service of process is served in this jurisdiction, or by certified or registered mail to the last known address of the condemnee. If service cannot be made in the manner provided, then service shall be made by posting a copy of the notice upon the most public part of the property and by publication of a copy of the notice one time in a newspaper of general circulation published in the county.|||Source. 1971, 526:1. 1981, 493:9. 1982, 42:79, eff. Dec. 31, 1982.|
NH Rev Stat § 498-A:9 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LI - Courts|Title 498-A - Eminent Domain Procedure Act|Section 498-A:9 - Repealed by 1973, 256:8, eff. June 22, 1973.

    498-A:9 Repealed by 1973, 256:8, eff. June 22, 1973. –|
NH Rev Stat § 498-A:9-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LI - Courts|Title 498-A - Eminent Domain Procedure Act|Section 498-A:9-a - Preliminary Objections.

    498-A:9-a Preliminary Objections. –||I. Within 30 days after the return day, any condemnee may file a motion in the office of the board raising preliminary objections to the declaration of taking. The board upon cause shown may extend the time for filing preliminary objection. Preliminary objection shall be limited to and shall be the exclusive method of challenging:||(a) The sufficiency of the security;||(b) Any other procedure followed by the condemnor; or||(c) The necessity, public use, and net-public benefit of the taking.||II. Failure to raise any matters by preliminary objection shall constitute a waiver thereof.||III. Preliminary objection shall state specifically the grounds relied upon.||IV. All preliminary objections shall be raised at one time and in one pleading. They may be inconsistent.||V. The board shall determine promptly all preliminary objections and make such preliminary and final orders and decrees as justice shall require. If preliminary objections are finally sustained, which have the effect of finally terminating the condemnation, the condemnee shall be entitled to damages, including costs and expenses, to be determined by the board in the manner prescribed in RSA 498-A:24. The board may allow amendment or direct the filing of a more specific declaration of taking.|||Source. 1981, 493:10. 1982, 42:79. 1995, 194:3. 2006, 324:13, eff. Jan. 1, 2007.|
NH Rev Stat § 498-A:9-b (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LI - Courts|Title 498-A - Eminent Domain Procedure Act|Section 498-A:9-b - Determination of Preliminary Objections Based on Necessity, Public Use, and Net-Public Benefit.

    498-A:9-b Determination of Preliminary Objections Based on Necessity, Public Use, and Net-Public Benefit. –||I. If a condemnee files a preliminary objection under RSA 498-A:9-a, I(c) concerning necessity, public use, or net-public benefit, the board shall transfer that preliminary objection to the superior court of the county in which the property is located. There shall be no filing fee for such transfer.||II. Upon receipt of the transfer from the board, the superior court shall require a response from the condemnor and may conduct an evidentiary hearing before it rules on the preliminary objection. Parties may appeal the superior court's decision to the supreme court. Once the decision is final and nonappealable, the superior court shall send to the board a copy of its decision.||III. If the superior court denies the condemnee's preliminary objection, the board shall then proceed under RSA 498-A:25 to determine the amount of just compensation.||IV. If the superior court grants the preliminary objection, the board shall determine the damages, if any, in accordance with RSA 498-A:9-a, V and then dismiss the declaration of taking and record such dismissal order in the registry of deeds.|||Source. 1995, 194:4. 2006, 324:14, eff. Jan. 1, 2007.|
NH Rev Stat § 498-A:10 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LI - Courts|Title 498-A - Eminent Domain Procedure Act|Section 498-A:10 - Right to Enter Property Prior to Condemnation.

    498-A:10 Right to Enter Property Prior to Condemnation. –||Prior to the time of filing the declaration of taking, the condemnor or its employees or agents shall have the right to enter upon any land or improvement which it has the power to condemn, in order to make studies, surveys, tests, soundings, and appraisals; provided, however, that the condemnee has been notified 10 days prior to entry on the property. Such entry and related activities shall not constitute a trespass, but the condemnor shall be liable for any actual damages caused thereby. This liability may be enforced in a civil action against the condemnor brought in the superior court in the county in which the property is located, with damages to be assessed by the board in the manner provided in RSA 498-A:24.|||Source. 1971, 526:1. 1977, 363:12. 1982, 42:79. 1983, 297:4, eff. Aug. 17, 1983.|