New Jersey Statutes 46:3-18. Aliens; “alien friend” defined; right to acquire, hold and transfer real estate
Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 46:3-18
- Continuance: Putting off of a hearing ot trial until a later time.
- Devise: To gift property by will.
- Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
- Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
- 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
Nothing contained in this section shall be construed to:
a. Entitle any alien to be elected into any office of trust or profit in this State, or to vote at any town meeting or election of members of the Senate and General Assembly, or other officers, within this State, or for Representatives in Congress or electors of the President and Vice-President of the United States; or
b. Prevent the sequestration, seizure or disposal by either the State or National government of any real estate or interest therein so long as the same is owned or held by any alien, made pursuant to duly enacted legislation, during the continuance of war between the United States and the government of the country of which any such alien is a citizen or subject; but any bona fide conveyance, mortgage or devise made by such alien shall be valid, if made to a citizen of the United States or to an alien friend.
Amended by L.1943, c. 145, p. 395, s. 1, eff. April 8, 1943.