Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 2A:167-4

  • 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
  • Precedent: A court decision in an earlier case with facts and law similar to a dispute currently before a court. Precedent will ordinarily govern the decision of a later similar case, unless a party can show that it was wrongly decided or that it differed in some significant way.
  • 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
The governor may, upon application for commutation of sentence of any person sentenced to imprisonment, order that such sentence be commuted upon such terms, conditions and limitations as the governor, in his discretion, may direct, as conditions precedent to the release of any such person from imprisonment; which terms, conditions and limitations shall be annexed to and form part of said order. Upon the filing of such order signed by the governor with the officer in whose custody such person may be, and after the acceptance by such person of the terms, conditions and limitations contained in said order, as evidenced by his signature affixed to the duplicate copy of such order to be kept in the files of the state parole board, such sentence shall thereupon be commuted in accordance with the terms, conditions and limitations of such order.

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

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