Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 39:6-84

  • 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.
24. When a judgment is obtained against the association, in an action brought under this act, upon the determination of all proceedings including appeals and reviews, the court shall make an order directed to the association directing it to pay out of the fund to the plaintiff in the action the amount thereof which does not exceed $15,000.00, exclusive of interest and costs, on account of injury to, or death of, one person and, subject to such limits for the death of, or injury to, any one person, does not exceed $30,000.00, exclusive of interest and costs, on account of the injury to, or death of, more than one person, in any one accident, provided that such maximum amount shall be reduced by any amount received or recovered by the plaintiff as specified in subparagraph (m) of section 10.

L.1952,c.174,s.24; amended 1955, c.1, s.15; 1958, c.99, s.8; 1972, c.198, s.5; 1985, c.148, s.17; 2003, c.89, s.28.

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