New Jersey § acts:saved-54 - (45)

§ acts:saved-54. (45)

3. That in any case where the commissioners of adjustment appointed under the provisions

of the act to which this is a supplement, shall have filed their report with the circuit

court of any county, and the said court shall have thereafter made an order directing

the owner or owners, mortgagee or mortgagees, lienor or lienors, of each lot or parcel

of land affected by said report to show cause why the said report should not be confirmed

and the lands sold in fee simple, free and clear from any estate in or lien upon the

same, as required by the act to which this is a supplement, and certified copies of

said order to show cause, through inadvertence or otherwise, shall not have been served

upon all of the owners, mortgagees, lienors or other persons interested and entitled

by law to notice, and such owner or owners, mortgagee or mortgagees, lienor or lienors,

or other persons interested in said lands shall have had no notice of the sale of

said lands, and upon the return day of such order to show cause or the day to which

the same may have been adjourned, said circuit court shall have confirmed the said

report of the commissioners of adjustment, and there shall have been, subsequent to

such confirmation, a sale of such lands by the collector of taxes of the said town,

township, borough or other municipality, and the said lands shall have been purchased

by any purchaser or purchasers, including the municipality, who shall have received

from the said collector of taxes a certificate of sale of, or a deed for, said lands,

and it shall thereupon appear that any owner or owners, mortgagee or mortgagees, lienor

or lienors, or other persons interested and entitled to receive notice of such sale,

shall not have been made parties defendant or served with the order to show cause

or with notice of the proceedings upon which the report of the said commissioners

of adjustment was confirmed by the said court and required by the act to which this

is a supplement; that then, and in that case, the said commissioners of adjustment

or their successors in office or such purchaser or purchasers heretofore or hereafter

of lands sold pursuant to this act, and any subsequent purchaser, grantee of the title

to said lands acquired at such sale, may, provided the said subsequent purchaser,

grantee or assignee is the last owner of said lands as appears by the records since

the said sale in the county in which said lands are situate, in order to perfect his

or their title in fee simple as contemplated by the said act, to which this is a supplement,

may present a petition to the circuit court of the county in which such town, township,

borough or other municipality is situate, setting forth all the facts concerning the

former report, the order to show cause served upon the defendants, owners, mortgagees,

lienors or other persons interested, and the confirmation of said report and sale

of lands, and further setting forth the names of the defendants or owners, mortgagees,

lienors or other persons interested, who were not properly served with the order to

show cause or notice of the proceedings as aforesaid; and, in addition setting forth

any taxes, assessments, water rates or water rents assessed upon the said lands so

described in the said petition, subsequent to the former sale and praying the said

circuit court for an order requiring such owner or owners, mortgagee or mortgagees,

lienor or lienors, or other persons interested in said lands, to redeem the said lands

from the former sale within six months from the service of the notice required by

this act, which order the said circuit court, upon the filing of such petition, may

grant.