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NH Rev Stat § 568:24 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LVII - Insolvency Proceedings and Assignments for Creditors|Title 568 - Insolvency Proceedings|Section 568:24 - Removal; Vacancies.

    568:24 Removal;  Vacancies. –||The judge may at any time remove the assignee for cause, and shall fill all vacancies. If the assignee does not, within 5 days after notification of his appointment, accept the trust and file a bond in such sum as the judge shall order, conditioned for the faithful performance of his duties, a vacancy shall exist in the office.|||Source. 1885, 85:8. PS 201:23. PL 401:24. RL 465:24.|
NH Rev Stat § 568:25 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LVII - Insolvency Proceedings and Assignments for Creditors|Title 568 - Insolvency Proceedings|Section 568:25 - Notice.

    568:25 Notice. –||The assignee shall give such notice of his appointment as the judge shall order.|||Source. 1861, 2488:6. GS 126:10. GL 140:10. PS 201:24. PL 401:25. RL 465:25.|
NH Rev Stat § 568:26 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LVII - Insolvency Proceedings and Assignments for Creditors|Title 568 - Insolvency Proceedings|Section 568:26 - Inventory, etc.

    568:26 Inventory, etc. –||The assignee shall, within such time as the judge may order, return into court, under oath, an inventory of all the debtor's estate not exempt from attachment. He shall convert such estate into money in such manner as the judge may direct.|||Source. 1861, 2488:1. GS 126:4. 1885, 85:4. PS 201:25. PL 401:26. RL 465:26.|
NH Rev Stat § 568:27 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LVII - Insolvency Proceedings and Assignments for Creditors|Title 568 - Insolvency Proceedings|Section 568:27 - Attachments, etc.

    568:27 Attachments, etc. –||The proceedings in insolvency shall dissolve all attachments of the debtor's property made within 3 months before the beginning thereof, and all payments, pledges, mortgages, conveyances, sales and transfers made within that time, the effect of which, if held valid, would be to diminish the property available to the creditors, the person to whom made having reasonable cause to believe the debtor insolvent, or which were not made in the ordinary course of business and for an adequate consideration, or which were made to satisfy or secure a previously existing debt, and all pledges, payments, mortgages, sales and transfers, whenever made, if fraudulent as to creditors, shall be void; and the assignee may recover any amount so paid and any property so attached, pledged, mortgaged, paid, sold or transferred. The provisions of this section shall not affect any existing lien for labor performed or materials furnished or any proceedings to enforce the same.|||Source. 1885, 85:9. PS 201:26. PL 401:27. RL 465:27.|
NH Rev Stat § 568:28 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LVII - Insolvency Proceedings and Assignments for Creditors|Title 568 - Insolvency Proceedings|Section 568:28 - Procedure.

    568:28 Procedure. –||The debtor, when required by the court upon reasonable notice, shall appear before the judge and submit to an examination on oath by the assignee or any creditor touching any matter which may affect the settlement of his estate in insolvency. Upon cause shown by affidavit of a person interested in the estate, the judge may summon any person suspected of having fraudulently received, concealed, embezzled or conveyed away any of the estate of the debtor, of having in his possession any of the assets of the debtor's estate, or of having any knowledge of anything material relating to such assets or to the dealings of the debtor, to appear and submit to an examination in like manner. But no evidence elicited shall be used against the person examined in any criminal prosecution, except a prosecution for perjury committed upon such examination.|||Source. PS 201:27. PL 401:28. RL 465:28.|
NH Rev Stat § 568:29 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LVII - Insolvency Proceedings and Assignments for Creditors|Title 568 - Insolvency Proceedings|Section 568:29 - For Support, Legal Expenses, etc.

    568:29 For Support, Legal Expenses, etc. –||The debtor shall be paid by the assignee $1 a day for his attendance upon request of the assignee and upon request of the judge when required. He shall also be allowed out of his estate, for the necessary support of himself and family, such sum not exceeding $2 a week for each member, and for such time not exceeding 2 months, as the judge may order. He shall also be allowed, out of his estate, such necessary legal expenses as may be adjudged just and reasonable by the judge.|||Source. 1885, 85:16. PS 201:28. 1897, 32:1. PL 401:29. RL 465:29.|
NH Rev Stat § 568:30 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LVII - Insolvency Proceedings and Assignments for Creditors|Title 568 - Insolvency Proceedings|Section 568:30 - Accounts.

    568:30 Accounts. –||Within 6 months from the beginning of the insolvency proceedings, and at such other times as the judge may direct, the assignee shall file in the office of the clerk an account of his receipts, payments and charges touching the estate. The judge shall appoint a time and place of hearing upon the question of the allowance of such account and shall issue a citation or order of notice to the debtor and creditors accordingly. At the hearing all parties in interest may be heard, and the judge shall allow the account as shall seem reasonable and just.|||Source. 1861, 2488:5. GS 126:21. GL 140:21. 1885, 85:5. 1889, 100:1. PS 201:29. PL 401:30. RL 465:30. 2011, 88:20, eff. July 1, 2011.|
NH Rev Stat § 568:31 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LVII - Insolvency Proceedings and Assignments for Creditors|Title 568 - Insolvency Proceedings|Section 568:31 - Priorities of Claims.

    568:31 Priorities of Claims. –||The following claims are entitled to priority, and shall be paid in full in the order named:||I. Debts due the United States and all taxes.||II. Wages due an operative, clerk or servant, not exceeding $50, for labor performed within 6 months prior to the beginning of the insolvency proceedings.||III. Taxable costs in any suit begun in good faith in which an attachment is dissolved by the insolvency proceedings.|||Source. 1885, 85:17. 1889, 100:2. PS 201:32. PL 401:31. RL 465:31.|
NH Rev Stat § 568:32 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LVII - Insolvency Proceedings and Assignments for Creditors|Title 568 - Insolvency Proceedings|Section 568:32 - Payment of Claims.

    568:32 Payment of Claims. –||At any time after the beginning of the insolvency proceedings, upon such notice to the creditors and the assignee as he shall think proper, the judge may order the payment in whole or in part of claims entitled to priority under the provisions of this chapter.|||Source. 1862, 2594:7. GS 126:22. GL 140:22. PS 201:30. PL 401:32. RL 465:32.|
NH Rev Stat § 568:33 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LVII - Insolvency Proceedings and Assignments for Creditors|Title 568 - Insolvency Proceedings|Section 568:33 - Dividends.

    568:33 Dividends. –||Within 8 months from the beginning of the proceedings, the judge shall order that portion of the estate not required to pay claims entitled to priority, or such part thereof as he deems fit, to be divided among all the creditors whose claims have been allowed and who are not entitled to priority, in proportion to their respective claims. Further dividends shall be made as the occasion requires.|||Source. 1862, 2594:7. GS 126:22. GL 140:22. PS 201:31. PL 401:33. RL 465:33.|
NH Rev Stat § 568:34 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LVII - Insolvency Proceedings and Assignments for Creditors|Title 568 - Insolvency Proceedings|Section 568:34 - Appealed Claims.

    568:34 Appealed Claims. –||If an appeal in regard to any claim is pending at the time of making a dividend, a sufficient amount shall be reserved in the hands of the assignee to satisfy the dividends that may be called for upon such claim.|||Source. PS 201:33. PL 401:34. RL 465:34.|
NH Rev Stat § 568:35 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LVII - Insolvency Proceedings and Assignments for Creditors|Title 568 - Insolvency Proceedings|Section 568:35 - Form.

    568:35 Form. –||The debtor may amend his schedules at any time within 3 months after the beginning of the proceedings. At the end of such time, he shall subscribe, take and file in the office of the clerk an oath, in substance as follows:||I, .........., do solemnly swear that the account of my creditors contained in the schedule made and signed by me and now on file in the court is in all respects just and true according to my best knowledge and belief. I do further swear that I have delivered to the messenger all my estate, except such part as is by law exempt from attachment, and such as has been necessarily spent for the support of myself and family, and all my books of account and papers relating to my estate that were within my possession or power when the same were demanded of me by the messenger; that I have delivered to the messenger or assignee all such of my said estate, books and papers as have since come to my possession; and that if any other estate, effects or other things shall hereafter come to my knowledge or possession, I will forthwith disclose or deliver the same to the assignee. And I do further swear that I have not made over or disposed of any part of my estate or effects for the future benefit of myself or my family, or in order to defraud my creditors.|||Source. 1885, 85:11. 1889, 96:4. PS 201:34. PL 401:35. RL 465:35. 2011, 88:20, eff. July 1, 2011.|
NH Rev Stat § 568:36 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LVII - Insolvency Proceedings and Assignments for Creditors|Title 568 - Insolvency Proceedings|Section 568:36 - Procedure.

    568:36 Procedure. –||At any time within 12 months after the settlement of the final account of the assignee, and not afterward, the debtor may petition the court for a discharge, and the judge shall thereupon appoint a time and place for a hearing, of which the creditors shall have due notice. A creditor opposing the discharge shall file a specification in writing of the grounds of his opposition.|||Source. 1885, 85:15. PS 201:35. 1895, 38:1. PL 401:36. RL 465:36.|
NH Rev Stat § 568:37 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LVII - Insolvency Proceedings and Assignments for Creditors|Title 568 - Insolvency Proceedings|Section 568:37 - Granting.

    568:37 Granting. –||If it appears to the satisfaction of the judge, after the hearing provided for in RSA 568:36, that the debtor has made a full disclosure and delivery of all his estate as herein required, and that he has in all things conformed to the requirements of the laws relating to insolvent debtors, the judge shall grant him a discharge from all his debts not specially excepted, and shall give him a certificate thereof under the seal of the court.|||Source. 1885, 85:15. 1889, 100:2. PS 201:36. PL 401:37. RL 465:37.|
NH Rev Stat § 568:38 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LVII - Insolvency Proceedings and Assignments for Creditors|Title 568 - Insolvency Proceedings|Section 568:38 - Excepted Claims.

    568:38 Excepted Claims. –||I. Taxes and debts created by the debtor's fraud, embezzlement or defalcation while acting as a public officer or in any fiduciary capacity shall not be discharged.||II. Loan repayments due from loans made in accordance with the provisions of RSA 200-I to a medical or veterinary student shall not be eligible to be discharged if less than 10 years have passed since the first loan repayment was due.|||Source. 1885, 85:15. 1889, 100:2. PS 201:37. PL 401:38. RL 465:38. RSA 568:38. 1979, 302:3, 353:12, eff. July 1, 1979.|
NH Rev Stat § 568:39 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LVII - Insolvency Proceedings and Assignments for Creditors|Title 568 - Insolvency Proceedings|Section 568:39 - Joint Debtor.

    568:39 Joint Debtor. –||A discharge shall not release or discharge a person liable for the same debt for or with the debtor.|||Source. PS 201:38. PL 401:39. RL 465:39.|
NH Rev Stat § 568:40 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LVII - Insolvency Proceedings and Assignments for Creditors|Title 568 - Insolvency Proceedings|Section 568:40 - Consent of Creditors.

    568:40 Consent of Creditors. –||A discharge shall not be granted to a debtor whose assets do not pay 50 percent of the claims allowed against his estate which are not entitled to priority, unless the assent in writing of 2/3 in number and value of the creditors who have such claims and whose claims have been allowed is filed in the case.|||Source. 1885, 85:15. 1889, 100:2. PS 201:39. PL 401:40. RL 465:40.|
NH Rev Stat § 568:41 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LVII - Insolvency Proceedings and Assignments for Creditors|Title 568 - Insolvency Proceedings|Section 568:41 - Fraud.

    568:41 Fraud. –||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.|||Source. 1885, 85:12. 1889, 100:2. PS 201:40. PL 401:41. RL 465:41.|
NH Rev Stat § 568:42 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LVII - Insolvency Proceedings and Assignments for Creditors|Title 568 - Insolvency Proceedings|Section 568:42 - Refusal of Dividend.

    568:42 Refusal of Dividend. –||In case of a discharge, if a creditor shall refuse to accept the dividends decreed to him in discharge of his debt or claim, they shall be deposited with the judge of probate, subject to the order of the creditor, and if the creditor does not claim them within one year from the time of such deposit, the judge shall pay them to the debtor.|||Source. 1885, 85:14. PS 201:41. PL 401:42. RL 465:42.|
NH Rev Stat § 568:43 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LVII - Insolvency Proceedings and Assignments for Creditors|Title 568 - Insolvency Proceedings|Section 568:43 - Procedure.

    568:43 Procedure. –||The judge of probate, upon petition, under oath of any creditor or creditors of a debtor residing in the county, setting forth that the debtor is owing the petitioner or petitioners $300 or more, that his property within the state, not exempt from attachment, is in their belief insufficient to pay his debts, and that they are not entitled to proceed under the Bankruptcy Act, shall appoint a time and place of hearing and cause the petitioner to give notice thereof to the debtor. If, after the hearing, the facts set forth in the petition are found to be true, the judge shall adjudge the debtor insolvent and issue his warrant to the sheriff of the county or one of his deputies, directing him forthwith as messenger to take possession of all the estate, real and personal, of the debtor not exempt from attachment and to safely keep the same until further order of the court. The judge may also order the debtor to return a list of his creditors and a schedule of his property, each verified by his oath, within a prescribed period of time.|||Source. 1885, 85:7. PS 201:42. PL 401:43. RL 465:43.|
NH Rev Stat § 568:44 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LVII - Insolvency Proceedings and Assignments for Creditors|Title 568 - Insolvency Proceedings|Section 568:44 - Notice, etc.

    568:44 Notice, etc. –||If the list of creditors provided for in RSA 568:43 is returned, the judge shall cause notice to be given to the creditors and proceed for the choice of an assignee, as directed by RSA 568:23. If for any reason the list shall not be returned, the judge shall cause such notice of the petition as he deems sufficient to be given, and afterward proceed as provided in RSA 568:23.|||Source. 1885, 85:7. PS 201:43. PL 401:44. RL 465:44.|
NH Rev Stat § 568:45 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LVII - Insolvency Proceedings and Assignments for Creditors|Title 568 - Insolvency Proceedings|Section 568:45 - Effect.

    568:45 Effect. –||The estate of the debtor shall vest in the judge of probate and such assignee and his successors as may be appointed as in other cases, and the debtor may also be ordered to execute an assignment, and further proceedings shall be had as in cases of voluntary assignment.|||Source. 1885, 85:7. PS 201:44. PL 401:45. RL 465:45.|
NH Rev Stat § 568:46 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LVII - Insolvency Proceedings and Assignments for Creditors|Title 568 - Insolvency Proceedings|Section 568:46 - Partner's Petition.

    568:46 Partner's Petition. –||A partner, whenever his copartners will not join with him in a voluntary assignment, may file a petition in form and substance like a creditor's petition in the county where any of the partners resides, praying that the firm be adjudged insolvent, and all subsequent proceedings shall be the same as those in cases involving creditors' petitions.|||Source. 1885, 85:18. PS 201:45. PL 401:46. RL 465:46.|
NH Rev Stat § 568:47 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LVII - Insolvency Proceedings and Assignments for Creditors|Title 568 - Insolvency Proceedings|Section 568:47 - Effect; Procedure.

    568:47 Effect;  Procedure. –||The insolvency of a partnership shall render each partner insolvent within the meaning of this chapter, and his property not exempt from attachment, books and papers shall pass to the messenger and assignee appointed in the partnership proceedings; but the assignee shall be nominated by the partnership creditors. The expenses of the proceedings shall be deducted from the whole amount received by the assignee. The net proceeds of the partnership and individual property shall be distributed among the creditors of the firm and the creditors of the individual partners according to the rules of equity in such cases.|||Source. PS 201:46. PL 401:47. RL 465:47.|
NH Rev Stat § 568:48 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LVII - Insolvency Proceedings and Assignments for Creditors|Title 568 - Insolvency Proceedings|Section 568:48 - Discharge.

    568:48 Discharge. –||The certificate of discharge shall be granted or refused to each partner as though the proceedings had been against him alone. In all other respects the proceedings against partners shall be conducted as though against a single person.|||Source. PS 201:47. PL 401:48. RL 465:48.|
NH Rev Stat § 568:49 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LVII - Insolvency Proceedings and Assignments for Creditors|Title 568 - Insolvency Proceedings|Section 568:49 - Procedure.

    568:49 Procedure. –||Insolvent corporations created by the laws of this state, except banking and railroad corporations, may make assignments or be proceeded against in insolvency in the same manner as individuals, and the judge for the county where the principal place of business of the corporation is located may issue his warrant and proceed as in other cases. The schedule of creditors and of the estate shall be furnished by the treasurer or other financial officer of the corporation, and all the provisions of this chapter which apply to the debtor or set forth his duties in regard to executing papers, submitting to examinations, disclosing, making over, secreting, concealing, conveying, assigning, paying or conveying away his money or property shall, in like manner and with like force and effect and penalties, apply to each and every officer of the corporation and to the money and property thereof.|||Source. PS 201:48. PL 401:49. RL 465:49.|
NH Rev Stat § 568:50 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LVII - Insolvency Proceedings and Assignments for Creditors|Title 568 - Insolvency Proceedings|Section 568:50 - Officers' Oath.

    568:50 Officers' Oath. –||At the end of 3 months from the beginning of the proceedings, the officers shall severally make and subscribe an oath in substance as follows:||I, .........., (president, etc., or treasurer, etc.), do swear that I believe the account of the creditors of the corporation contained in the schedules signed by .........., and now on file in court, is in all respects just and true; that I do believe that all the property and estate of said corporation, and all its books of account and papers, have been delivered to the messenger or the assignee; and that, if any goods or estate not so delivered hereafter come to my knowledge, I will faithfully and diligently apprise the assignee thereof. And I do further swear that, to the best of my knowledge, information and belief, there is no part of the estate or effects of the corporation made over or disposed of in any manner in fraud of the laws relating to insolvency or of the creditors of the corporation.|||Source. PS 201:49. PL 401:50. RL 465:50.|
NH Rev Stat § 568:51 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LVII - Insolvency Proceedings and Assignments for Creditors|Title 568 - Insolvency Proceedings|Section 568:51 - Penalty.

    568:51 Penalty. –||If a debtor, or any officer of a corporation against which a petition in insolvency is pending, shall wilfully omit to file a list or schedule as ordered, or shall wilfully and fraudulently give false information or neglect to give true information to the assignee in relation to the estate or the claims of creditors, or to do any act or to furnish or discover any evidence in his power or knowledge material to the just settlement of the estate, he shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.|||Source. GS 126:6. GL 140:6. 1885, 85:3. PS 201:50. PL 401:51. RL 465:51. RSA 568:51. 1973, 528:317, eff. at 11:59 P.M., Oct. 31, 1973.|