No person claiming to be a stockholder in his own right shall vote as such until he shall make oath, if required by any stockholder at such meeting, before a justice of the peace, that he is the absolute and bona fide owner of the shares claimed by him.
RSA 296:23
RS 140:42. CS 148:53. GS 134:19. GL 148:19. PS 149:20. PL 227 :23. RL 276:23.