Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 2A:16-15

  • Docket: A log containing brief entries of court proceedings.
  • Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
The clerk shall enter upon the civil judgment and order docket, if the judgment is entered therein, and otherwise in the civil docket, a notation of the filing or lodging with him for record of any assignment of, postponement of the lien of, or warrant to satisfy, any judgment, indicating when and where the same is recorded or filed, at a discernible place on or at the entry of such judgment in said docket and shall cause all such assignments of judgments and all postponements or warrants to satisfy judgments to be recorded in the manner provided by section 2A:16-12 of this title.

Judgments shall be satisfied of record as required by law but the entry of satisfaction may be made at any discernible place on or at the entry of such judgment on the civil judgment and order docket and upon any other record of such judgment.

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