Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 13:12-29

  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • 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
  • State: extends to and includes any State, territory or possession of the United States, the District of Columbia and the Canal Zone. See New Jersey Statutes 1:1-2
If any person shall, in any manner, willfully or maliciously, destroy, injure or damage any of the property of the Morris canal, the title to which is vested in the canal and banking company in trust for the state of New Jersey, or any of its parts, or any of the works connected therewith, or thereunto appertaining, or if any person shall, against the will or without the consent of the person appointed by the canal and banking company to have charge of or attend any existing lock, open any gate of such lock, or pass a boat, raft or other floating thing through or over such lock, or if any person shall willfully or maliciously let off or discharge water from any part of the canal property still in existence, through or by any waste weir, or water gate, or otherwise, or shall shut down or close, either in part or in whole, any feed gate, or water weir, when the same shall be in operation, such person, so offending, shall forfeit and pay to the canal and banking company the sum of twenty-five dollars, to be recovered by and in the name of the president and board of directors of the canal and banking company, in any court of competent jurisdiction.
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