New Jersey Statutes 3A:36-4. Admeasurement when real estate is sold subject to dower or curtesy by judgment
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Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 3A:36-4
- Bankruptcy: Refers to statutes and judicial proceedings involving persons or businesses that cannot pay their debts and seek the assistance of the court in getting a fresh start. Under the protection of the bankruptcy court, debtors may discharge their debts, perhaps by paying a portion of each debt. Bankruptcy judges preside over these proceedings.
- Dower: A widow
3A:36-4. If real estate is lawfully sold by a sheriff, assignee in bankruptcy or other public officer, whereby an inchoate right of dower or curtesy does or shall remain, the purchaser shall have the right, in an action in the Superior Court to have one half part thereof, or such other part according to the law in force when the right or estate became vested, admeasured and set off as and for the dower or curtesy portion.
Amended 1991,c.91,s.151.