New Jersey Statutes 54:4-30. Duty of county recording officer where deed not certified
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Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 54:4-30
- assessor: when used in relation to the assessment of taxes or water rents or other public assessments, includes all officers, boards or commissions charged with the duty of making such assessments, unless a particular officer, board or commission is specified. See New Jersey Statutes 1:1-2
- 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.
- Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
- Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
- 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
If no assessor‘s certificate shall appear on a deed or similar instrument, the register of deeds and mortgages or county clerk with whom it is filed for record shall ascertain from the person leaving it for record, or otherwise, and if not recited therein, mark upon the face of the instrument, the post-office addresses of the grantee or grantees therein. The post-office address shall include the street and house number, and if no house number, the names of the streets or avenues or rural route numbers, of any or all grantees, if individuals, and if any grantee is a firm, partnership, association or corporation, the address shall include the location of the firm or partnership or the principal office of the association or corporation in this State, or if it be a corporation of a foreign State, then the principal office of the corporation in that State.
Amended by L.1964, c. 96, s. 1.