§ 46:3-1 Feudal tenures abolished
§ 46:3-2 Certain tenures and holdings turned into free and common socage
§ 46:3-3 Certain conveyances to operate in free and common socage
§ 46:3-4 Rents certain or rights and incidents to common socage not discharged
§ 46:3-5 Alienation of freeholds (statute quia emptores terrarum)
§ 46:3-6 Gifts, grants and conveyances by state allodial
§ 46:3-7 Transferability of estates of expectancy
§ 46:3-8 Grants of real estate, rents, reversions or remainders without attornment of tenant
§ 46:3-9 Conveyance of uses (statute of uses)
§ 46:3-10 Fines and common recoveries abolished
§ 46:3-11 Collateral warranties by ancestor abolished
§ 46:3-12 Warranties by life tenant void as to reversioners or remaindermen
§ 46:3-13 Fee simple; creation by deed; construction favorable to creation
§ 46:3-14 Rule in Shelley’s Case abolished
§ 46:3-15 Estates tail abolished
§ 46:3-16 Buildings and other things included in deeds to land
§ 46:3-17 Tenancies in common; joint tenancies
§ 46:3-17.1 Joint tenancies; creation
§ 46:3-17.2 Tenancy by entirety
§ 46:3-17.3 Property interest
§ 46:3-17.4 Written consent of both spouses
§ 46:3-17.5 Surviving spouse sole owner
§ 46:3-18 Aliens; “alien friend” defined; right to acquire, hold and transfer real estate
§ 46:3-19 Estates, rights and interests in areas above surface of ground
§ 46:3-20 Enjoyment, alienation, demise, etc., of areas above surface of ground
§ 46:3-21 Rights, burdens, restrictions, etc., pertaining to lands applicable
§ 46:3-22 Application of existing laws to estates, etc., in areas above surface of ground
§ 46:3-23 Discrimination prohibited in promise, covenant, restriction
§ 46:3-24 Short title
§ 46:3-25 Solar easements; creation in writing; recording
§ 46:3-26 Contents
§ 46:3-27 Conveyance or reservation of mineral rights; exclusion of water rights
§ 46:3-28 Declarations, findings relative to private transfer fees
§ 46:3-29 Definitions relative to private transfer fees
§ 46:3-30 Private transfer fee obligation shall not run with title to real property; exceptions
§ 46:3-31 Liability for damages
§ 46:3-32 Disclosure of existence of private transfer fee obligation
§ 46:3-33 Recording of notice of private transfer fee; requirements

Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes > Title 46 > Chapter 3 - Feudal Tenures Abolished

  • Affidavit: A written statement of facts confirmed by the oath of the party making it, before a notary or officer having authority to administer oaths.
  • Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
  • assessor: when used in relation to the assessment of taxes or water rents or other public assessments, includes all officers, boards or commissions charged with the duty of making such assessments, unless a particular officer, board or commission is specified. See New Jersey Statutes 1:1-2
  • 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.
  • Continuance: Putting off of a hearing ot trial until a later time.
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
  • Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
  • Devise: To gift property by will.
  • Donee: The recipient of a gift.
  • Donor: The person who makes a gift.
  • Equitable: Pertaining to civil suits in "equity" rather than in "law." In English legal history, the courts of "law" could order the payment of damages and could afford no other remedy. See damages. A separate court of "equity" could order someone to do something or to cease to do something. See, e.g., injunction. In American jurisprudence, the federal courts have both legal and equitable power, but the distinction is still an important one. For example, a trial by jury is normally available in "law" cases but not in "equity" cases. Source: U.S. Courts
  • 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.
  • Fee simple: Absolute title to property with no limitations or restrictions regarding the person who may inherit it.
  • Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
  • Grantor: The person who establishes a trust and places property into it.
  • Joint tenancy: A form of property ownership in which two or more parties hold an undivided interest in the same property that was conveyed under the same instrument at the same time. A joint tenant can sell his (her) interest but not dispose of it by will. Upon the death of a joint tenant, his (her) undivided interest is distributed among the surviving joint tenants.
  • Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). Source: OCC
  • Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
  • Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
  • Mortgagee: The person to whom property is mortgaged and who has loaned the money.
  • Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
  • 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
  • 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
  • Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
  • real property: include lands, tenements and hereditaments and all rights thereto and interests therein. See New Jersey Statutes 1:1-2
  • 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.
  • Remainderman: One entitled to the remainder of an estate after a particular reserved right or interest, such as a life tenancy, has expired.
  • State: extends to and includes any State, territory or possession of the United States, the District of Columbia and the Canal Zone. See New Jersey Statutes 1:1-2
  • Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
  • Tenancy by the entirety: A type of joint tenancy between husband and wife that is recognized in some States. Neither party can sever the joint tenancy relationship; when a spouse dies, the survivor acquires full title to the property.
  • Tenancy in common: A type of property ownership in which two or more individuals have an undivided interest in property. At the death of one tenant in common, his (her) fractional percentage of ownership in the property passes to the decedent
  • Testify: Answer questions in court.