New Jersey Statutes 2A:56-17. Lienors may be made parties
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Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 2A:56-17
- Devise: To gift property by will.
- Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
- Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
- 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
- Plaintiff: The person who files the complaint in a civil lawsuit.
The plaintiff in such an action in partition may, at his election, make parties thereto every person having a lien, by mortgage, judgment, decree, devise or otherwise, on the undivided interest or estate of any of the parties.
L.1951 (1st SS), c.344.