Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 54:4-32

  • 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
  • Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
  • Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
The county clerk or register of deeds and mortgages shall not receive such deed or instrument for record unless he is paid the fee provided by section 22A:4-4 of the Title Fees and Costs for the preparation of the abstract. He shall not require a fee from the assessor or custodian for the certification and abstract. The county clerk or register of deeds and mortgages shall refuse to record any such deed or other evidence of title unless the post-office address, street and house numbers, names of streets or avenues, or rural route numbers, as required by section 54:4-30, are contained in or marked upon the face of such instrument offered for record.

Amended by L.1964, c. 96, s. 2.