Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 4:7-41

  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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
Every tenant in possession of lands and premises on whom the aforesaid notice is served by the department shall forthwith give notice thereof to his landlord, or the agent of his landlord, and in default of so doing he shall be liable to any person aggrieved thereby to a penalty of fifty dollars ($50.00) to be recovered by a civil action in any court of competent jurisdiction in this State.

Amended by L.1953, c. 5, p. 30, s. 13.

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