Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 2A:56-18

  • Devise: To gift property by will.
  • Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
  • Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
  • 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
Where lienors have not been made parties, the court may, before ordering sale of the premises, on motion of any party, admit as a party a person having a lien, by mortgage, judgment, decree, or otherwise, on the undivided interest, share or estate of any of the parties, and may thereupon ascertain and determine whether the shares or interests of the parties to the action, or any of them, are subject to a lien or encumbrance by mortgage, devise, judgment or decree or otherwise, and if so, to what liens or encumbrances, and by whom they are held.

L.1951 (1st SS), c.344.