Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 54:5-81

  • Affidavit: A written statement of facts confirmed by the oath of the party making it, before a notary or officer having authority to administer oaths.
  • 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.
  • Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
  • 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
The county clerk or register, as the case may be, shall index the notice, affidavits and certificates in the alphabetical index of grantors in the name of the delinquent owner, as shown by the certificate, and in the name of every person who has been served with notice as an interested party, as shown by the affidavit, and shall note in the margin of the original record of the certificate in the books of mortgages a reference to the place where the certificate and affidavits have been re-recorded as a deed. The record shall be notice to all the world, and at the expiration of two years from the date of making the record shall, in the absence of fraud, be conclusive evidence of the service and facts therein stated.
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