Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 45:9-46

  • Answer: The formal written statement by a defendant responding to a civil complaint and setting forth the grounds for defense.
  • Bequest: Property gifted by will.
  • Devise: To gift property by will.
  • Fee simple: Absolute title to property with no limitations or restrictions regarding the person who may inherit it.
  • Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
  • Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). Source: OCC
Upon making the certificate and causing the same to be so recorded and filed, the physicians so associating, their successors and assigns, shall, by virtue of this article, be a body politic and corporate in fact and in law, by the name stated in the certificate, and by that name they and their successors shall have perpetual succession and may, in all courts and places whatsoever, sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, answer and be answered unto, may make a common seal and use the same at pleasure, and may take, have, hold, receive and enjoy any real estate, in fee simple or otherwise, and any property of any description, real or personal, whether acquired by gift, grant, devise, bequest or otherwise, and may grant, convey, lease, assign, sell or otherwise dispose of the same for the purposes of the association.