Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 46:39-5

  • Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
  • Personal property: All property that is not real property.
  • Personal property: includes goods and chattels, rights and credits, moneys and effects, evidences of debt, choses in action and all written instruments by which any right to, interest in, or lien or encumbrance upon, property or any debt or financial obligation is created, acknowledged, evidenced, transferred, discharged or defeated, in whole or in part, and everything except real property as herein defined which may be the subject of ownership. See New Jersey Statutes 1:1-2
This act shall apply to all corporations authorized by law to keep, maintain and rent out for hire safe-deposit boxes or other receptacles for the safekeeping of personal property. Nothing herein shall limit the rights, remedies, duties or powers of any corporation in keeping, maintaining and renting out for hire safe-deposit boxes or other receptacles for the safekeeping of personal property as otherwise provided by law.

L.1955, c. 151, p. 646, s. 5.