New Jersey § 2a:15-17

§ 2a:15-17.

When a judgment made in an action, of the pendency of which notice has been filed

as herein provided, is paid, satisfied or performed, or the action has been settled

by the parties thereto or has been abandoned by plaintiff therein, a statement of

such payment, satisfaction, performance, settlement or abandonment shall be entered

by the county clerk or register of deeds and mortgages in whose office the notice

has been filed, upon the receipt and filing by him of a warrant for that purpose,

executed by the party who filed the notice, or his attorney, as warrants to satisfy

judgments are required to be executed. If the judgment has been paid, satisfied or performed or the action has been settled

or abandoned as aforesaid, but the party who filed the notice of lis pendens fails

to file the warrant stated, the court having jurisdiction of the action may, upon

being satisfied of the fact of such payment, satisfaction, performance, settlement

or abandonment and upon such notice as it may by its order direct, order the real

estate affected and described in the notice of lis pendens to be discharged of all

claims or equities set up in the complaint in the action. The county clerk or register of deeds and mortgages shall, upon the filing by him

of the warrant mentioned in the first paragraph of this section or upon the filing

by him of the original or a certified copy of the order mentioned in the second paragraph

of this section, note in the margin of the record of the lis pendens notice the discharge

thereof by the warrant or order. Thereupon the real estate affected by the action and described in the notice shall

be discharged of all claims or equities set up in the complaint in the action.