Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 54:5-86.1

  • Foreclosure: A legal process in which property that is collateral or security for a loan may be sold to help repay the loan when the loan is in default. Source: OCC
  • 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
Any owner of lands purchased by such owner or his ancestor in title from a municipality, title to which lands was acquired by the municipality under a tax sale certificate and the foreclosure thereof, may request the municipality to foreclose such tax sale certificate as against any person having an estate or interest in, or encumbrance upon, said lands who was omitted as a party to the foreclosure action.

L.1953, c. 192, p. 1488, s. 1.

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