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Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 3B:14-65

  • Estate: means all of the property of a decedent, minor or incapacitated individual, trust or other person whose affairs are subject to this title as the property is originally constituted and as it exists from time to time during administration. See New Jersey Statutes 3B:1-1
  • Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
  • Fiduciary: includes executors, general administrators of an intestate estate, administrators with the will annexed, substituted administrators, substituted administrators with the will annexed, guardians, substituted guardians, trustees, substituted trustees and, unless restricted by the subject or context, temporary administrators, administrators pendente lite, administrators ad prosequendum, administrators ad litem and other limited fiduciaries. See New Jersey Statutes 3B:1-1
  • Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
  • real property: include lands, tenements and hereditaments and all rights thereto and interests therein. See New Jersey Statutes 1:1-2
Whenever a fiduciary, trust or estate abandons any real property pursuant to this article, the fiduciary, trust or estate shall remain liable for injury or damage to persons or property arising out of the ownership of the real property notwithstanding the abandonment, until the fiduciary, trust or estate has divested itself or has been divested of title thereto.

L.1981, c. 405, s. 3B:14-65, eff. May 1, 1982.