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DRAFT FOR ATTORNEY REVIEW — NOT FINAL

Matte v. Shippee Auto, Inc., 152 N.H. 216 (2005)

Citation
Matte v. Shippee Auto, Inc., 152 N.H. 216 (2005)
Parent Document
Matte v. Shippee Auto, Inc., 152 N.H. 216 (2005)
Jurisdiction
New Hampshire (state)
Effective Date
2005-05-20

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With these guidelines in mind, we examine our own summary possessory action statute. In matters of statutory interpretation, we are “the final arbiter of the intent of the legislature as expressed in the words of a statute considered as a whole.” Remington Invs. v. Howard, 150 N.H. 653, 654 (2004). ‘Where the language of a statute is clear on its face, its meaning is not subject to modification. We will neither consider what the legislature might have said nor add words that it did not see fit to include.” Id. (citation omitted). RSA 540:13, III (Supp. 2004) provides, in part: