New Jersey Statutes 2A:83-5. Official record or report as evidence that person is missing, interned, etc
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Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 2A:83-5
- Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
- 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
- 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
An official written report or record, or duly certified copy thereof, that a person is missing, missing in action, interned in a neutral country, or beleagured, besieged or captured by an enemy, or is dead, or is alive, made by such board or by any officer or employee of the United States authorized by the federal act referred to in this article or by any other law of the United States to make same, shall be received in any court, office or other place in this state as presumptive evidence that such person is missing, missing in action, interned in a neutral country, or beleagured, besieged or captured by an enemy, or is dead, or is alive, as the case may be.
L.1951 (1st SS), c.344.