Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 56:3-49

  • 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.
  • 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
Any person who shall violate the provisions of section 56:3-48 of this title, or who shall, without the written consent of the owner, sell, dispose of, buy or traffic in, mar or erase the brands or marks on, willfully break, destroy or otherwise injure, fill or use for any other purpose than the sale of the original contents of any of such baskets or other packages, shall be liable to a penalty of twenty dollars, with costs, for each and every offense; which penalty may be sued for and recovered with costs, by any person in any court of competent jurisdiction.
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