Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 5:5-54

  • Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
  • 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
  • Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
34. Each member of the commission and the executive director shall have power to administer oaths and examine witnesses, and shall have the power to issue subpenas to compel the attendance of witnesses and the production of all necessary reports, books, papers, documents, correspondence and other evidence at any designated place of hearing. The subpenas shall be authenticated by the seal of the commission, and any party to a proceeding before the commission may secure from it subpenas without charge. Misconduct on the part of a person attending a hearing or the failure of a witness when duly subpenaed to attend, give testimony or produce any records, shall be punishable by the Superior Court in the county wherein the offense is committed in the same manner as such failure is punishable by that court in a case therein pending.

L.1940,c.17,s.34; amended 1953, c.6, s.8; 1974, c.181, s.6; 1991,c.91,s.184.