Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 44:1-8

  • Bequest: Property gifted by will.
  • Devise: To gift property by will.
  • Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
  • May: shall be construed to be permissive. See New Jersey Statutes 44:1-1
  • Welfare-house: means a place where persons unable to care for and maintain themselves in whole or in part by reason of age, infirmity or poverty may be cared for and maintained in whole or in part at the expense of a county or municipality under the superintendent of a county welfare board in a county or portion thereof or districts composed of more than one county or portions thereof. See New Jersey Statutes 44:1-1
The board of chosen freeholders may accept and hold in trust for the county, or portion thereof so participating, any grant or devise of land, or any gift or bequest of money, or other personal property, or any donation to be applied, principal or income, or both, for the benefit of the welfare-house, and apply the same in accordance with the terms of the gift.