Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 56:3-25

  • Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
  • Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
  • 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
  • Trial: A hearing that takes place when the defendant pleads "not guilty" and witnesses are required to come to court to give evidence.
56:3-25. Whenever any person makes oath before the Superior Court or any municipal court that he has reason to believe and does believe that any bottle, container or receptacle mentioned in section 56:3-15 of this Title, the property of any person or corporation who or which has complied with the provisions of sections 56:3-16 and 56:3-17 of this Title, are being filled, sold, bought, given, taken, possessed, used, disposed of or trafficked in by any person or corporation in violation of this article, the court shall issue a search warrant to discover and obtain such bottles, containers or receptacles, and to bring before the court the person in whose possession bottles, containers or receptacles may be found. If any such bottles, containers or receptacles are found in the possession of any such person in violation of the provisions of this article, the court issuing the search warrant shall proceed summarily in a criminal proceeding to trial and judgment, and, upon a conviction and judgment, shall also award possession of the bottles, containers or receptacles taken under the search warrant to the owners or proprietors thereof.

Amended 1953,c.53,s.6; 1991,c.91,s.521.