No deed of bargain and sale, mortgage nor other conveyance of real estate, nor any lease for more than 7 years from the making thereof, shall be valid to hold the same against any person but the grantor and his heirs only, unless such deed or lease be acknowledged and recorded, according to the provisions of this chapter. All deeds which have been acknowledged and recorded according to the provisions of this chapter since August 15, 1981, but which were not attested to, shall be considered valid under this section.
N.H. Rev. Stat. Ann. § 477:7
Validity
Applied in 7 court decisions — leading case Rok Builders, LLC v. 2010-1 SFG Venture LLC (2013)
Most recently applied in US Bank v Bickford (March 2015)
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Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: New Hampshire General Court. Reproduced from public-domain New Hampshire statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.