Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 40:56-26

  • Adjourn: A motion to adjourn a legislative chamber or a committee, if passed, ends that day's session.
  • Equitable: Pertaining to civil suits in "equity" rather than in "law." In English legal history, the courts of "law" could order the payment of damages and could afford no other remedy. See damages. A separate court of "equity" could order someone to do something or to cease to do something. See, e.g., injunction. In American jurisprudence, the federal courts have both legal and equitable power, but the distinction is still an important one. For example, a trial by jury is normally available in "law" cases but not in "equity" cases. Source: U.S. Courts
  • Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
The officer, board or commissioners making the assessment shall attend at the time and place appointed, and shall give all parties interested or affected by the improvement ample opportunity to be heard upon the subject of the assessment. A majority of such board or commission shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business, and shall be sufficient to make any assessment. One member shall have power to adjourn any hearing, and any hearing may be adjourned from time to time. They shall have power to examine witnesses under oath to be administered by such officer or any member of such board or commission, and they shall thereupon make a just and equitable assessment of the benefits conferred upon any real estate by reason of such improvement having due regard to the rights and interests of all persons concerned, as well as to the value of the real estate benefited.
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