Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 52:17B-117

  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • Remainder: An interest in property that takes effect in the future at a specified time or after the occurrence of some event, such as the death of a life tenant.
If any clause, sentence, paragraph or part of this act be adjudged by a court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, such judgment shall not affect, impair or invalidate the remainder of this act, and it is hereby declared to be the legislative intent that this act would have been adopted had such invalid provision not been included herein.

L.1970, c. 74, s. 23, eff. May 21, 1970.

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