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

  • Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
  • Verdict: The decision of a petit jury or a judge.
Until the clerk of any court enters the record of a judgment in any action which has been finally determined, the verdict or judgment entered in the minutes shall be held and taken in the court in which the judgment is obtained to be the record of the judgment in such action, and shall be received in evidence in such court as such judgment, as fully as if the record had been made up and signed.

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