History
The RSA is a set of law books published by Thomson West. The work of updating the previous codification, the Revised Laws (RL) of 1942, was authorized by law in 1953 and was "not intended to change the meaning of the law as it existed on December 31, 1954." The work was done by a New Hampshire Revision Commission, which describes what it did at the start of each volume of the RSA, and was ratified in 1955 by statute.
A predecessor of Thomson West acquired the business of publishing the RSA from Equity Publishing Corp., founded by former governor Meldrim Thomson, Jr. It was a sore spot with some lawyers that, to purchase law books, they had to do business with the arch-conservative Thomson.
Read more about this topic: New Hampshire Revised Statutes Annotated
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