New Jersey § acts:saved-54 - (79)

§ acts:saved-54. (79)

1. In any case where the public tax records, or the records in the office of the city

clerk of any city, have been heretofore destroyed by fire, if a deed given by any

officer of said city to the purchaser, or his assignee of lands sold by said city

for unpaid taxes or assessments under and by virtue of the act to which this is a

supplement, and of the acts amendatory thereof and supplementary thereto be of record

in the office of the clerk or register of the county wherein said lands are situate

for five years prior to the destruction of such records as aforesaid, and the said

purchaser, or those under him, are in the possession of said lands, then the right

to redeem said lands under and in pursuance of the provisions of the act to which

this is a supplement, and the acts amendatory thereof and supplementary thereto shall

be forever barred after the expiration of twenty years from the date of the recording

of said deed, and no action for said lands shall be brought or instituted by the owner

or mortgagee of, or other person who was interested in said lands at the time of the

recording of the deed aforesaid, or by any person or persons claiming under them,

after the expiration of twenty years from the date of the recording of the deed aforesaid.