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RSA 556:5 · Suit Within One Year

Title: PROBATE COURTS AND DECEDENTS' ESTATES
Chapter: 556 · SUITS BY AND AGAINST ADMINISTRATORS
Status: current
Official source linked: Yes

Official source

556:5 Suit Within One Year. –
No suit shall be maintained against an administrator for any cause of action against the deceased, unless it is begun within one year next after the original grant of administration, exclusive of the time such administration may have been suspended, except in cases where he has retained estate in his hands for the payment of the claim by order of the judge, and cases provided for by RSA 556:7 and RSA 556:28.
Source. RS 161:5. CS 170:5. GS 179:5. GL 198:5. PS 191:4. 1899, 2:2. PL 302:5. RL 355:5. RSA 556:5. 1959, 114:3, eff. Jan. 1, 1960.

Source note

Source. RS 161:5. CS 170:5. GS 179:5. GL 198:5. PS 191:4. 1899, 2:2. PL 302:5. RL 355:5. RSA 556:5. 1959, 114:3, eff. Jan. 1, 1960.

Source history

1899, 2:2. PL 302:5. RL 355:5. RSA 556:5
1959, 114:3, eff. Jan. 1, 1960
RS 161:5. CS 170:5. GS 179:5. GL 198:5. PS 191:4

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Opinions and discipline decisions mentioning this RSA

2013-0649, In re Estate of Muriel R. Mills Supreme Court opinion · Nov. 13, 2014
2008-849 & 2008-919, IN RE WILL AND ESTATE OF DAVID J. BOURASSA Supreme Court opinion · Oct. 30, 2009
2001-727, IN RE ESTATE OF ROLAND A. BENNETT Supreme Court opinion · May 16, 2003