Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 2A:50-20

  • Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
  • Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
  • Foreclosure: A legal process in which property that is collateral or security for a loan may be sold to help repay the loan when the loan is in default. 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
R.S. 2:65-13 as am.L.1948, c. 378, p. 1557, s. 3, saved from repeal. [This section provides that the sheriff’s deed shall be valid despite the fact that any defendant who may have been made a party defendant in a foreclosure action has been misnamed in his representative capacity, provided that such person was actually named by his own proper name in the proceedings.]

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