Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 16:5-22

  • 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.
  • Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
  • Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
  • real property: include lands, tenements and hereditaments and all rights thereto and interests therein. See New Jersey Statutes 1:1-2
The corporation shall have all the powers enumerated in section 16:1-4 of the Revised Statutes, except that no sale or conveyance of any real property owned by the corporation or mortgage upon any property of the corporation or purchase of real property by the corporation shall be made unless previously authorized by a majority of the votes cast at a duly called annual or other meeting of the members of the corporation or by such vote in excess of a majority of the votes cast as may be provided by the by-laws of the corporation.

L.1957, c. 82, p. 157, s. 10.