Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 2A:50-35

  • Decedent: A deceased person.
  • Executor: A male person named in a will to carry out the decedent
  • 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
  • Mortgagor: The person who pledges property to a creditor as collateral for a loan and who receives the money.
  • 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
When the mortgagor or the person owning the mortgaged premises is dead at the time of the sale thereof under foreclosure, the court may, if it deems it expedient or necessary for the proper administration of the estate of the decedent, direct that the surplus arising from the proceeds of the sale be paid to the executor or administrator of the decedent, to be administered in the same manner as money arising from the sale of real estate by administrators or executors. The administrator or executor shall give bond as required by law upon an application for the sale of real estate.

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