Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 1:1-2.5

  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
  • person: includes corporations, companies, associations, societies, firms, partnerships and joint stock companies as well as individuals, unless restricted by the context to an individual as distinguished from a corporate entity or specifically restricted to one or some of the above enumerated synonyms and, when used to designate the owner of property which may be the subject of an offense, includes this State, the United States, any other State of the United States as defined infra and any foreign country or government lawfully owning or possessing property within this State. See New Jersey Statutes 1:1-2
  • Precedent: A court decision in an earlier case with facts and law similar to a dispute currently before a court. Precedent will ordinarily govern the decision of a later similar case, unless a party can show that it was wrongly decided or that it differed in some significant way.
  • State: extends to and includes any State, territory or possession of the United States, the District of Columbia and the Canal Zone. See New Jersey Statutes 1:1-2
  • Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
Whenever, by the terms of (a) any present or future statute or law of this State; (b) any present or future ordinance, rule, regulation or requirement of any State, municipal, legislative, executive, administrative or other public body, commission, bureau, agency, officer or public authority of this State; (c) any present or future rule, practice, order, judgment or decree of any court or of any judicial authority of this State; (d) any present or future charter, certificate of incorporation, by-law or resolution of any corporation organized or subject to the laws of this State; (e) any present or future contract, agreement or undertaking of any person, firm, association or corporation to which the laws of this State are applicable; or (f) as a condition precedent to the taking of any action, the granting of any relief, the holding of any meeting or the doing of anything under or pursuant to any such statute, law, ordinance, rule, regulation, requirement, practice, order, judgment, decree, charter, certificate of incorporation, by-law, resolution, contract, agreement, or undertaking; any notice or other communication is or shall be required to be sent, taken or transmitted out of the United States, then any such requirement for sending, taking or transmitting any such notice or other communication is dispensed with in so far as the sending, taking or transmitting or attempting to send, take or transmit any such notice or other communication is or shall be prohibited under any present or future Act of Congress or under any rules, regulations, proclamations or executive orders made by authority of any said Act or in so far as such sending, taking or transmitting or attempting so to do shall require the obtaining of a license or consent under any said Act or rules, regulations, proclamations or executive orders made by authority of any said Act; and any action of any kind which has been or hereafter shall be taken, any relief which has been or hereafter shall be granted, any meeting which has been or hereafter shall be held and anything which has been or hereafter shall be done without sending, taking or transmitting or attempting to send, take or transmit or without obtaining or attempting to obtain a license or consent to send, take or transmit any such notice or other communication under any said Act, rules, proclamation or executive orders made by authority of any said Act shall have the same force and effect as if such notice or other communication had been sent, taken or transmitted as provided in any such statute, law, ordinance, rule, regulation, requirement, practice, order, judgment, decree, charter, certificate of incorporation, by-law resolution, contract, agreement or undertaking.

L.1942, c. 131, p. 415, s. 1, eff. May 6, 1942.

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