Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 52:27-39.3

  • Equitable: Pertaining to civil suits in "equity" rather than in "law." In English legal history, the courts of "law" could order the payment of damages and could afford no other remedy. See damages. A separate court of "equity" could order someone to do something or to cease to do something. See, e.g., injunction. In American jurisprudence, the federal courts have both legal and equitable power, but the distinction is still an important one. For example, a trial by jury is normally available in "law" cases but not in "equity" cases. Source: U.S. Courts
  • Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
Such compromise settlement may include and be made on such terms as the board of chosen freeholders may deem fair and equitable and, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, may provide for the acceptance by the county or its treasurer in full and final discharge of the claim covered thereby of a sum in cash or of notes or bonds, or both, or of any other consideration, whether or not the face value or market value of such considerations shall equal the amount of such claim.

L.1946, c. 35, p. 77, s. 3.

  Previous section
Next section  
 Chapter 27 Contents