New Jersey § acts:saved-2 - (1)
Full text of New Jersey New Jersey Statutes § acts:saved-2 — (1), with citation guidance and answers to common questions.
§ acts:saved-2. (1)
12. That if tenant for term of life, or in dower, or by the curtesy, be impleaded, and
judgment given against him or her for the lands or tenements, then the person or persons
to whom the reversion or remainder of the same belongs at the time of such judgment,
his, her or their heirs or successors, may have writ of error, if error be found in
the record of such judgment, as well in the lifetime of the said tenant as after his
or her death; and if such judgment be reversed, the tenant, if living, shall be restored
to his or her possession of the said lands or tenements, and the party prosecuting
such writ of error to the arrearages of rent for the same; and if such tenant be
dead at the time of the judgment given on such writ of error, then restitution of
the said lands or tenements shall be made to the party prosecuting said writ, together
with the arrearages of rent; provided, always, that if the party prosecuting the
said writ of error allege that the judgment first obtained against such tenant was
by covin or assent, then restitution shall be made to the party prosecuting the said
writ, with arrearages, although the said tenant be living; but in such case the said
tenant may have a scire facias against the party plaintiff in error, if he will deny
and traverse the covin or assent aforesaid, and not otherwise.
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Section acts:saved-2 ("(1)") is part of the New Jersey Statutes, the codified statutory law of New Jersey. It sets out the legal rule or procedure described in the text above. Statutes are amended regularly, so always verify against the official source.
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