Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 2A:15-43

  • Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.
  • Bail: Security given for the release of a criminal defendant or witness from legal custody (usually in the form of money) to secure his/her appearance on the day and time appointed.
  • Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
  • Plaintiff: The person who files the complaint in a civil lawsuit.
The sheriff or other officer executing a capias ad respondendum shall, at the time of the arrest or at any time thereafter before judgment in the action, if requested so to do, produce the defendant before the court in order that he may give bail, and the defendant shall be released from custody upon his entering into a recognizance of bail to the plaintiff, with surety, in double the sum in which he is held to bail.

L.1951 (1st SS), c.344.