Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 46:3-15

  • Fee simple: Absolute title to property with no limitations or restrictions regarding the person who may inherit it.
  • 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
  • Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
Whenever any conveyance, will or instrument in writing shall hereafter be made, whereby any grantee, devisee or other person shall become seized in law or in equity of such estate in any real estate, as under the Statute of the Thirteenth of Edward I (called the Statute of Entails), would have been held an estate in fee tail of any type or character, such conveyance, will or instrument shall vest an estate in fee simple in such grantee, devisee or other person.
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