New Jersey § 46:26a-4

Full text of New Jersey New Jersey Statutes § 46:26a-4, with citation guidance and answers to common questions.

§ 46:26a-4.

Notwithstanding the prerequisites to recording in N.J.S. 46:26A-3 , the following may be recorded: a. documents that establish or evidence a trust under which a fiduciary has acquired

real property if accompanied by an affidavit of the fiduciary that the document is

an original trust document; b. ancient documents that cannot be acknowledged or proved because of the death or

other disability of the grantors and subscribing witnesses, accompanied by an affidavit

made by a person claiming to derive title from the document stating that the affiant

truly believes that quiet, continuous, adverse and undisturbed possession of the real

property has been enjoyed by virtue of the document for the period applicable for

adverse possession; c. documents other than those listed in N.J.S. 46:26A-2 that by their nature cannot be acknowledged or proved, accompanied by an affidavit

made by a person claiming to derive title to the real property stating that the document

is genuine and how the document relates to title to the real property; d. notices of federal tax liens, liens arising from the federal “Comprehensive Environmental

Response, Compensation and Liability Act of 1980,” Pub.L.96-510 ( 42 U.S.C.s.9601 et seq. ), and other federal liens, which any Act of Congress or regulation adopted pursuant

to it provides for filing of notice in the recording office designated by a state,

and certificates discharging such liens; e. maps as provided by P.L.2011, c. 217 ( N.J.S. 46:26A-1 et al.); f. notices of settlement executed by an attorney at law or authorized representative

of a party in accordance with P.L.2011, c. 217 ( N.J.S. 46:26A-1 et al.); g. certified copies of: (1) judgments, decrees, or orders of any court of record and petitions filed in a

United States Bankruptcy Court; (2) government issued documents affecting title to real property, including declarations

of takings duly executed by executive officials of condemnors in accordance with section

17 of P.L.1971, c. 361 ( C.20:3-17 ); (3) documents recorded or filed in any public recording office in the United States; h. a recorded mortgage bearing an endorsement: (1) authorizing cancellation of the mortgage signed by the mortgage holder; and (2) made on the original mortgage that bears on it the receipt given by the county

recording officer at the time it was recorded; and i. any other document that is permitted by another statute to be recorded or filed

without acknowledgment.

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