New Jersey Statutes 1:1-26. Statutes containing references to rules
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Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 1:1-26
- Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
- Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
Where any such statute contains a reference to the Rules of the Court of Chancery, the Rules of the Prerogative Court, the Rules of the former Supreme Court or the Rules of the Orphans’ Courts or to a Rule or Rules of any of such courts, by any other designation, the reference shall be given effect on and after September fifteenth, one thousand nine hundred and forty-eight, as though it were to the Rules or a Rule made and promulgated by the Supreme Court governing the practice and procedure in the court succeeding to the jurisdiction of the court referred to in such statute, if any such Rule is appropriate to the subject matter of such reference.
L.1948, c. 375, p. 1545, s. 5.