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Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 3B:21-2

  • Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
  • 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
  • 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
The term “personal property” as used in this chapter shall include, but without limitation, property or money or any devise or distributive share, interest, trust fund or trust property in the hands of a fiduciary residing or acting in this State, moneys in the hands of a receiver appointed by any court, moneys in the hands of a commissioner, officer, fiduciary or other person constituting the proceeds from the sale of real estate under any judicial proceeding, or pursuant to the provisions of any will or instrument of trust, or awarded as damages for the taking of lands under legislative authority, moneys or funds deposited in any court of this State, whether arising from the sale of lands or otherwise, and moneys or property in the custody or under the control or subject to the directions of any court.

L.1981, c. 405, s. 3B:21-2, eff. May 1, 1982.