Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 46:3-2

  • Common law: The legal system that originated in England and is now in use in the United States. It is based on judicial decisions rather than legislative action.
  • 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
The tenures of honors, manors, lands, tenements, or hereditaments, or of estates of inheritance at the common law, held either of the king of England, or of any other person or body politic or corporate, at any time before July fourth, one thousand seven hundred and seventy-six, and declared, by section three of an act entitled “An act concerning tenures,” passed February eighteenth, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-five, to be turned into holdings by free and common socage from the time of their creation and forever thereafter, shall continue to be held in free and common socage, discharged of all the tenures, charges and incidents enumerated in said section three.
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