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Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 3B:16-6

  • Administrator: includes general administrators of an intestate and unless restricted by the subject or context, administrators with the will annexed, substituted administrators, substituted administrators with the will annexed, temporary administrators and administrators pendente lite. See New Jersey Statutes 3B:1-1
  • Appraisal: A determination of property value.
  • Decedent: A deceased person.
  • Executor: A male person named in a will to carry out the decedent
  • oath: includes "affirmation. See New Jersey Statutes 1:1-2
  • Oath: A promise to tell the truth.
  • 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
  • Personal property: All property that is not real property.
  • Personal property: includes goods and chattels, rights and credits, moneys and effects, evidences of debt, choses in action and all written instruments by which any right to, interest in, or lien or encumbrance upon, property or any debt or financial obligation is created, acknowledged, evidenced, transferred, discharged or defeated, in whole or in part, and everything except real property as herein defined which may be the subject of ownership. 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
  • sworn: includes "affirmed. See New Jersey Statutes 1:1-2
The inventory of a personal representative which is to be filed, shall be proved by his oath that it is just and true, and by the oath of the appraisers, or one of them, that the real and personal property specified in the inventory was appraised at its just and true values according to their or his best judgment. If only one of the appraisers be sworn it shall be added that the other appraiser was present at the same time and consented to the valuation and appraisal. The oaths shall be taken before any person qualified to administer oaths in this State and shall be indorsed on the inventory filed with the surrogate or clerk of the Superior Court, as the case may be.

If personal property of the decedent shall have been set off for the benefit of the family, the executor or administrator shall also verify by his oath the list of property selected and file the list with the inventory.

L.1981, c. 405, s. 3B:16-6, eff. May 1, 1982.