New Jersey Statutes 2A:33-8. Distraint after term or estate ended
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Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 2A:33-8
- Continuance: Putting off of a hearing ot trial until a later time.
- Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). Source: OCC
- 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
A person having rent in arrear and due upon a lease for term of life, years, or at will ended or determined, may distrain for the same after determination of the respective leases, in the same manner as he might have done if the lease had not been ended or determined.
The distress shall be made within 6 calendar months after the determination of the lease, and during the continuance of the landlord’s title or interest, and during the possession of the tenant from whom the arrears became due, or if the landlord’s title and interest shall have ceased, or the tenant has removed from the leasehold premises, then within 30 days after the end and determination of the term of tenancy, but not thereafter.
L.1951 (1st SS), c.344.