Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 26:8-35

  • birth: means the complete expulsion or extraction from its mother of a product of conception, irrespective of the duration of pregnancy, which, after such separation, breathes or shows any other evidence of life such as beating of the heart, pulsation of the umbilical cord, or definite movement of voluntary muscles, whether or not the umbilical cord has been cut or the placenta attached. See New Jersey Statutes 26:8-1
No certificate of birth shall be held to be complete and correct that does not supply all of the items of information called for therein, or satisfactorily account for their omission.