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NH Rev Stat § 508:18-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LII - Actions, Process, and Service of Process|Title 508 - Limitation of Actions|Section 508:18-a - Law Enforcement Agencies; Limitation on Liability for Injuries Caused by Dogs Used in Law Enforcement Work.

    508:18-a Law Enforcement Agencies;  Limitation on Liability for Injuries Caused by Dogs Used in Law Enforcement Work. –||No law enforcement officer or agency shall be held liable for damages resulting from injuries caused by a dog used in law enforcement work provided that:||I. The officer and the dog have completed training together and received certification from a nationally recognized organization required for police work or other law enforcement work or from the New England State Police Administrators Compact;||II. The injury arises out of law enforcement conduct within the provisions of RSA 627:5, I and II; and||III. The law enforcement agency using a dog in enforcement work has adopted a written policy on the necessary and appropriate use of a dog for the work enumerated in paragraphs I and II. Said written policy shall be available for public inspection at any time.|||Source. 2001, 284:1, eff. Jan. 1, 2002. 2011, 36:1, eff. May 9, 2011.|
NH Rev Stat § 508:20 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LII - Actions, Process, and Service of Process|Title 508 - Limitation of Actions|Section 508:20 - Wrongful Death Action on Behalf of Nonsupported Child; Recovery Limited.

    508:20 Wrongful Death Action on Behalf of Nonsupported Child;  Recovery Limited. –||No parent shall receive any portion of an award of damages or an out-of-court settlement resulting from any claim or action for wrongful death on behalf of such parent's dependent child, until such parent has paid in full any child support arrearages owed, if such parent:||I. Was convicted of nonsupport of such child under RSA 639:4;||II. Failed to comply with a legal order for support of such child under RSA 161-B; or||III. Was otherwise ordered to pay support for such child by a court or administrative agency in this state or another state, and failed to comply with such order.|||Source. 1998, 153:1, eff. Jan. 1, 1999.|
NH Rev Stat § 508:21 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LII - Actions, Process, and Service of Process|Title 508 - Limitation of Actions|Section 508:21 - Liability Limited; Manufacturers, Distributors, Dealers, or Importers of Firearms or Ammunition.

    508:21 Liability Limited;  Manufacturers, Distributors, Dealers, or Importers of Firearms or Ammunition. –||I. In this section:||(a) "Manufacturer" means:||(1) A person who is engaged in a business to import, make, produce, create, or assemble a qualified product, and who designs or formulates, or has engaged another person to design or formulate, a qualified product.||(2) A seller of a qualified product, but only with respect to an aspect of the product that is made or affected when the seller makes, produces, creates, or assembles and designs or formulates an aspect of the product made by another person.||(3) Any seller of a qualified product who represents to a user of a qualified product that the seller is a manufacturer of the qualified product.||(b) "Person" means any individual, corporation, company, association, firm, partnership, society, joint stock company, or any other entity, including any governmental entity.||(c) "Qualified product" means a firearm or ammunition or a component part of a firearm or ammunition, manufactured in compliance with federal and state law, that has been shipped or transported in intrastate, interstate, or foreign commerce.||(d) "Qualified civil liability action" means a civil action, in law or in equity, brought by any person against a manufacturer or seller or a trade association of a qualified product, for damages resulting from the criminal or unlawful use of a qualified product by the person or a third party, but shall not include an action brought against a manufacturer, seller, or trade organization convicted of a felony under state or federal law, by a party directly harmed by the felonious conduct.||(e) "Seller" means, with respect to a qualified product, a person who:||(1) In the course of a business conducted for that purpose sells, distributes, rents, leases, prepares, blends, packages, labels, or otherwise is involved in placing a qualified product in the stream of commerce.||(2) Installs, repairs, refurbishes, reconditions, or maintains an aspect of a qualified product that is alleged to have resulted in damages.||(f) "Trade association" means a federal, state, or local trade association which has one or more members which are manufacturers or sellers of a qualified product.||II. A qualified civil liability action shall not be brought in any state court.|||Source. 2003, 267:2, eff. Jan. 1, 2004.|
NH Rev Stat § 508:22 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LII - Actions, Process, and Service of Process|Title 508 - Limitation of Actions|Section 508:22 - Liability Limited for Winter Maintenance.

    508:22 Liability Limited for Winter Maintenance. –||I. No commercial applicator as defined in RSA 489-C:1, II and certified under RSA 489-C:2, or his or her employer or principal, or an owner, occupant, or lessee of land whose premises is maintained by a commercial applicator certified under RSA 489-C:2, whether by contract with the commercial applicator or his or employer or principal, shall be liable for damages arising from insufficiencies or hazards on any premises owned, occupied, maintained, or operated by them, even with actual notice thereof, when such hazards are caused solely by snow or ice, and the failure or delay in removing or mitigating such hazards is the result of the implementation, absent gross negligence or reckless disregard of the hazard, of best management practices for winter road, parking lot, and sidewalk maintenance adopted and published by the department of transportation and the department of environmental services. All commercial applicators, owners, occupants, or lessees who adopt such best management practices shall be presumed to be acting pursuant to the best management practices in the absence of proof to the contrary.||II. In order to receive the liability protection provided in paragraph I, a commercial applicator as defined in RSA 489-C:1, II, or an owner, occupant, or lessee of land shall keep a written record describing its winter road, parking lot and property maintenance practices. The written record shall include the type of de-icing materials used, the rate or quantity of deicing materials used, the dates of treatment, and the weather conditions for each event requiring de-icing. Such records shall be kept for a period of 3 years.|||Source. 2013, 144:123, eff. Sept. 26, 2013. 2021, 204:2, Pt. III, Sec. 7, eff. July 1, 2021.|
NH Rev Stat § 508-A:1 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LII - Actions, Process, and Service of Process|Title 508-A - Uniform Model Choice of Forum Act|Section 508-A:1 - Definitions.

    508-A:1 Definitions. –||As used in this chapter, the word "state" shall mean any foreign nation, and any state, district, commonwealth, territory or insular possession of the United States.|||Source. 1969, 320:1, eff. Aug. 29, 1969.|
NH Rev Stat § 508-A:2 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LII - Actions, Process, and Service of Process|Title 508-A - Uniform Model Choice of Forum Act|Section 508-A:2 - Action in This State by Agreement.

    508-A:2 Action in This State by Agreement. –||I. If the parties have agreed in writing that an action on a controversy may be brought in this state and the agreement provides the only basis for the exercise of jurisdiction, a court of this state will entertain the action if:||(a) the court has power under the law of this state to entertain the action;||(b) this state is a reasonably convenient place for the trial of the action;||(c) the agreement as to the place of the action was not obtained by misrepresentation, duress, the abuse of economic power, or other unconscionable means; and||(d) the defendant, if within the state, was served as required by law of this state in the case of persons within the state or, if without the state, was served either personally or by registered mail directed to his last known address.||II. This section does not apply to the appointment of an agent for the service of process pursuant to statute or court orders.|||Source. 1969, 320:1, eff. Aug. 29, 1969.|
NH Rev Stat § 508-A:3 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LII - Actions, Process, and Service of Process|Title 508-A - Uniform Model Choice of Forum Act|Section 508-A:3 - Action in Another Place by Agreement.

    508-A:3 Action in Another Place by Agreement. –||If the parties have agreed in writing that an action on a controversy shall be brought only in another state and it is brought in a court of this state, the court will dismiss or stay the action, as appropriate, unless:||I. The court is required by statute to entertain the action;||II. The plaintiff cannot secure effective relief in the other state, for reasons other than delay in bringing the action;||III. The other state would be a substantially less convenient place for the trial of the action than this state;||IV. The agreement as to the place of the action was obtained by misrepresentation, duress, the abuse of economic power, or other unconscionable means; or||V. It would for some other reason be unfair or unreasonable to enforce the agreement.|||Source. 1969, 320:1, eff. Aug. 29, 1969.|
NH Rev Stat § 508-A:4 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LII - Actions, Process, and Service of Process|Title 508-A - Uniform Model Choice of Forum Act|Section 508-A:4 - Uniformity of Interpretation.

    508-A:4 Uniformity of Interpretation. –||The provisions of this chapter shall be so construed as to effectuate the general purpose to make uniform the law of those states which enact it.|||Source. 1969, 320:1, eff. Aug. 29, 1969.|
NH Rev Stat § 508-A:5 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LII - Actions, Process, and Service of Process|Title 508-A - Uniform Model Choice of Forum Act|Section 508-A:5 - Severability.

    508-A:5 Severability. –||If any provision of this chapter or the application thereof to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the invalidity does not affect other provisions or applications of this chapter which can be given effect without the invalid provision or application, and to this end the provisions of this chapter are severable.|||Source. 1969, 320:1, eff. Aug. 29, 1969.|
NH Rev Stat § 508-B:1 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LII - Actions, Process, and Service of Process|Title 508-B - Procedure for Advance Payment on Claims for Damages for Bodily Injury, Death or Property Damage|Section 508-B:1 - Payment: Not to Imply Liability.

    508-B:1 Payment:  Not to Imply Liability. –||No advance payment or partial payment of damages made by any person, or made by his insurer under liability insurance, as an accommodation to an injured person or on his behalf to others or to the heirs at law or dependents of a deceased person, because of a personal injury or death claim or potential claim against any person or insured shall be construed as an admission of liability by the person claimed against, or as a recognition by such person or by his insurer of such liability, with respect to such injured or deceased person or with respect to any other claim arising from the same accident or event. Any such payments shall, however, constitute a credit against and be deducted from any final settlement made or judgment rendered with respect to such injured or deceased person which does not expressly provide to the contrary.|||Source. 1971, 456:6, eff. Aug. 29, 1971.|
NH Rev Stat § 508-B:2 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LII - Actions, Process, and Service of Process|Title 508-B - Procedure for Advance Payment on Claims for Damages for Bodily Injury, Death or Property Damage|Section 508-B:2 - Duty of Person Making Payment.

    508-B:2 Duty of Person Making Payment. –||Any person, including any insurer, who makes an advance or partial payment as described in RSA 508-B:1 shall, at the time of beginning payment, notify the recipient thereof in writing:||I. That the payment is not any assurance that a final settlement of the claim will be made.||II. That the period of time in which the recipient may bring an action against such person is limited by law, and what the applicable limitation period is and when it will expire.|||Source. 1971, 456:6, eff. Aug. 29, 1971.|
NH Rev Stat § 508-B:3 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LII - Actions, Process, and Service of Process|Title 508-B - Procedure for Advance Payment on Claims for Damages for Bodily Injury, Death or Property Damage|Section 508-B:3 - Statute of Limitations Tolled by Failure to Provide Notice.

    508-B:3 Statute of Limitations Tolled by Failure to Provide Notice. –||Failure to provide the written notice required by RSA 508-B:2 shall operate to toll the applicable statute of limitations from the time of such advance or partial payment until such written notice is actually given.|||Source. 1971, 456:6, eff. Aug. 29, 1971.|
NH Rev Stat § 509:1 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LII - Actions, Process, and Service of Process|Title 509 - Writs and Their Indorsement|Section 509:1 - English Language to be Used.

    509:1 English Language to be Used. –||Writs, declarations, processes, indictments, answers, pleadings and entries of record in the courts shall be in the English language, and in no other.|||Source. RS 182:1. CS 193:1. GS 203:1. GL 222:1. PS 218:1. PL 330:1. RL 386:1.|
NH Rev Stat § 509:2 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LII - Actions, Process, and Service of Process|Title 509 - Writs and Their Indorsement|Section 509:2 - Form.

    509:2 Form. –||Writs and processes issuing returnable to any court shall be in the name of the state of New Hampshire, shall be under the seal of the court, shall bear the teste of the chief, first, senior or other justice of the court who is not a party, and shall be signed or imprinted by a facsimile of the signature of the clerk or, if issued in the superior court, shall be signed or imprinted by a facsimile of the signature of the clerk thereof for any county; provided, however, executions in civil actions and all criminal processes shall be signed by the clerk.|||Source. RS 182:2. CS 193:2. 1866, 4260:1. GS 203:2. GL 222:2. PS 218:2. PL 330:2. Const. art. 86. RL 386:2. RSA 509:2. 1955, 60:1, eff. April 1, 1955.|
NH Rev Stat § 509:2-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LII - Actions, Process, and Service of Process|Title 509 - Writs and Their Indorsement|Section 509:2-a - Repealed by 2006, 267:3, V, eff. June 9, 2006.

    509:2-a Repealed by 2006, 267:3, V, eff. June 9, 2006. –|
NH Rev Stat § 509:3 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LII - Actions, Process, and Service of Process|Title 509 - Writs and Their Indorsement|Section 509:3 - Direction.

    509:3 Direction. –||Writs returnable to the supreme or superior court shall be directed to the sheriff of any county or his deputy; provided, however, that writs of attachment shall be directed to the sheriff, the plaintiff, his attorney or any other person.|||Source. RS 179:3. CS 193:2. GS 203:3. GL 216:4; 222:3. PS 218:3. PL 330:3. RL 386:3. RSA 509:3. 1977, 519:4, eff. Sept. 13, 1977.|
NH Rev Stat § 509:4 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LII - Actions, Process, and Service of Process|Title 509 - Writs and Their Indorsement|Section 509:4 - Original Process.

    509:4 Original Process. –||Original process in the courts shall be summons and attachment and shall be in the form prescribed by law.|||Source. RS 182:3. CS 193:3. GS 203:4. GL 222:4. PS 218:4. PL 330:4. RL 386:4. RSA 509:4. 1971, 227:6, eff. Aug. 17, 1971.|
NH Rev Stat § 509:5 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LII - Actions, Process, and Service of Process|Title 509 - Writs and Their Indorsement|Section 509:5 - New Forms.

    509:5 New Forms. –||In cases where no form of process is prescribed, the process shall be made conformable to the forms prescribed, so far as the nature of the case will admit.|||Source. RS 182:7. CS 193:7. GS 203:5. GL 222:5. PS 218:5. PL 330:5. RL 386:5.|
NH Rev Stat § 509:6 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LII - Actions, Process, and Service of Process|Title 509 - Writs and Their Indorsement|Section 509:6 - Real Actions.

    509:6 Real Actions. –||In real actions and actions of ejectment, the original writ shall be summons or attachment only.|||Source. RS 182:8. CS 193:8. GS 208:6. GL 222:6. PS 218:6. PL 330:6. RL 386:6.|
NH Rev Stat § 509:7 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LII - Actions, Process, and Service of Process|Title 509 - Writs and Their Indorsement|Section 509:7 - Defendant's Name.

    509:7 Defendant's Name. –||When the name of the defendant is unknown to the plaintiff, the writ may be issued against him by a fictitious name, and, being duly served, it shall not for that cause be abated, but may be amended on such terms as the court may order.|||Source. RS 182:9. CS 193:9. GS 203:7. GL 222:7. PS 218:7. PL 330:7. RL 386:7.|
NH Rev Stat § 509:8 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LII - Actions, Process, and Service of Process|Title 509 - Writs and Their Indorsement|Section 509:8 - Indorsement.

    509:8 Indorsement. –||Original writs, before service thereof, shall be indorsed by the plaintiff or by his agent or attorney if the plaintiff is an inhabitant of the state, otherwise by some responsible person who is an inhabitant.|||Source. RS 182:17. CS 193:17. GS 203:8. GL 222:8. PS 218:8. PL 330:8. RL 386:8.|
NH Rev Stat § 509:9 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LII - Actions, Process, and Service of Process|Title 509 - Writs and Their Indorsement|Section 509:9 - Liability of Indorser for Costs.

    509:9 Liability of Indorser for Costs. –||If the defendant recovers costs, the person indorsing the writ shall be liable therefor on scire facias upon the return of non est or not satisfied upon the execution therefor; but if the plaintiff lives out of the state, the indorser shall be so liable without such return.|||Source. RS 182:18. CS 193:18. GS 203:9. GL 222:9. PS 218:9. PL 330:9. RL 386:9.|
NH Rev Stat § 509:10 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LII - Actions, Process, and Service of Process|Title 509 - Writs and Their Indorsement|Section 509:10 - Time for Enforcement.

    509:10 Time for Enforcement. –||A scire facias pursuant to RSA 509:9 shall be served upon the indorser within one year after judgment, and not afterward.|||Source. RS 182:19. CS 193:19. GS 203:10. GL 222:10. PS 218:10. PL 330:10. RL 386:10.|
NH Rev Stat § 509:11 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LII - Actions, Process, and Service of Process|Title 509 - Writs and Their Indorsement|Section 509:11 - Justices' Writs.

    509:11 Justices' Writs. –||Writs issued by justices of municipal and district courts shall be under seal and directed to the sheriff of any county or his deputy or to any constable of any town in the county, or to either of said officers; provided, however, that writs of attachment shall be directed to the sheriff of any county, or to any such constable, or to the plaintiff, his attorney or any other person.|||Source. RS 182:4. CS 193:4. GS 203:11. GL 222:11. PS 218:11. PL 330:11. RL 386:11. RSA 509:11. 1957, 244:34. 1977, 519:5, eff. Sept. 13, 1977.|
NH Rev Stat § 509:12 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LII - Actions, Process, and Service of Process|Title 509 - Writs and Their Indorsement|Section 509:12 - Form; Return.

    509:12 Form;  Return. –||Writs issued by a justice of a municipal court having no clerk shall be signed by such justice, and shall be returnable at a day, hour and place named therein, and in other respects shall be substantially in the form prescribed.|||Source. RS 182:5. CS 193:5. GS 203:12. GL 222:12. PS 218:12. PL 330:12. RL 386:12. RSA 509:12. 1957, 244:35, eff. Sept. 23, 1957.|
NH Rev Stat § 509:13 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LII - Actions, Process, and Service of Process|Title 509 - Writs and Their Indorsement|Section 509:13 - Municipal Courts; Attachment; Execution.

    509:13 Municipal Courts;  Attachment;  Execution. –||If the defendant in an action before a municipal court has personal property liable to attachment in a county of which he is not an inhabitant, the original writ and execution may be directed to the sheriff of any county, his deputy or to any constable of any town in which the defendant resides or has such property.|||Source. RS 182:6. CS 193:6. GS 203:13. GL 222:13. PS 218:13. PL 330:13. RL 386:13. RSA 509:13. 1957, 244:36, eff. Sept. 23, 1957.|
NH Rev Stat § 509:14 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LII - Actions, Process, and Service of Process|Title 509 - Writs and Their Indorsement|Section 509:14 - Repealed by 1981, 328:3, XXI, eff. Aug. 16, 1981.

    509:14 Repealed by 1981, 328:3, XXI, eff. Aug. 16, 1981. –|
NH Rev Stat § 509:15 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LII - Actions, Process, and Service of Process|Title 509 - Writs and Their Indorsement|Section 509:15 - Repealed by 1981, 328:3, XXII, eff. Aug. 16, 1981.

    509:15 Repealed by 1981, 328:3, XXII, eff. Aug. 16, 1981. –|
NH Rev Stat § 509:16 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LII - Actions, Process, and Service of Process|Title 509 - Writs and Their Indorsement|Section 509:16 - Repealed by 1971, 227:7, eff. Aug. 17, 1971.

    509:16 Repealed by 1971, 227:7, eff. Aug. 17, 1971. –|
NH Rev Stat § 509:17 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LII - Actions, Process, and Service of Process|Title 509 - Writs and Their Indorsement|Section 509:17 - Repealed by 1981, 328:3, XXIII, eff. Aug. 16, 1981.

    509:17 Repealed by 1981, 328:3, XXIII, eff. Aug. 16, 1981. –|
NH Rev Stat § 509:18 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LII - Actions, Process, and Service of Process|Title 509 - Writs and Their Indorsement|Section 509:18 - Repealed by 1981, 328:3, XXIV, eff. Aug. 16, 1981.

    509:18 Repealed by 1981, 328:3, XXIV, eff. Aug. 16, 1981. –|
NH Rev Stat § 509:19 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LII - Actions, Process, and Service of Process|Title 509 - Writs and Their Indorsement|Section 509:19 - Repealed by 1981, 328:3, XXV, eff. Aug. 16, 1981.

    509:19 Repealed by 1981, 328:3, XXV, eff. Aug. 16, 1981. –|
NH Rev Stat § 509:20 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LII - Actions, Process, and Service of Process|Title 509 - Writs and Their Indorsement|Section 509:20 - Repealed by 1981, 328:3, XXVI, eff. Aug. 16, 1981.

    509:20 Repealed by 1981, 328:3, XXVI, eff. Aug. 16, 1981. –|
NH Rev Stat § 509:21 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LII - Actions, Process, and Service of Process|Title 509 - Writs and Their Indorsement|Section 509:21 - Repealed by 1981, 328:3, XXVII, eff. Aug. 16, 1981.

    509:21 Repealed by 1981, 328:3, XXVII, eff. Aug. 16, 1981. –|
NH Rev Stat § 510:1 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LII - Actions, Process, and Service of Process|Title 510 - Service of Writs|Section 510:1 - Time; Where Returnable.

    510:1 Time;  Where Returnable. –||All original writs and writs of mesne process shall be served by the service date specified by the court on the summons, and shall be returnable to the superior court for Rockingham County at Brentwood; Strafford County at Dover; Belknap County at Laconia; Carroll County at Ossipee; Merrimack County at Concord; Hillsborough County at either Manchester or Nashua, as is appropriate; Cheshire County at Keene; Sullivan County at Newport; Grafton County at North Haverhill in the town of Haverhill; and Coos County at Lancaster.|||Source. RS 183:1. CS 194:1. GS 204:1. GL 223:1. 1881, 70:1. 1883, 22:1. PS 219:1. PL 331:1. RL 387:1. 1947, 121:2. RSA 510:1. 1955, 63:1. 1969, 174:2. 1983, 382:20, eff. Jan. 1, 1986. 2010, 193:5, eff. June 21, 2010. 2014, 204:34, eff. July 11, 2014.|