New Jersey § app:a-46
Full text of New Jersey New Jersey Statutes § app:a-46, with citation guidance and answers to common questions.
§ app:a-46.
“ancient deeds”, all deeds or instruments of the nature and description set forth
in section 46:16-1 of this title, which shall be delivered to him for that purpose, and which any person
deriving title from or under them may desire for his security to have recorded, although
such deeds or instruments have not been and owing to the death or other disability
of the grantors and subscribing witnesses cannot be acknowledged or proved, but only
when any such deed or instrument shall be accompanied by affidavits made by some person
deriving or claiming to derive title therefrom or thereunder, which affidavits shall
state that the real estate or other property, estate or interest therein, conveyed
or affected by such deeds or instruments are wholly or partly situate in the county
in which such deeds or instruments are offered for record, that affiant claims title
thereto, or to some part thereof, and that affiant verily believes that quiet, continuous,
adverse and undisturbed possession of such real estate or other property has been
enjoyed by virtue thereof for forty years or more. The county recording officer recording any deed or instrument under authority of this
section shall file the originals with the affidavits in his office (numbering them
according to their dates of filing from one up, to correspond with the similar numbers
in the record of the same), and there carefully keep the same in the same manner as
he is required by section 46:16-8 of this title to keep such deeds or instruments which shall not have been recorded
within ten years after the date of acknowledgment or proof thereof. All records made under authority of this section shall thereafter have the effect
as notice stated in section 46:21-1 of this title, and such deeds or instruments or records may be transmitted to and
rerecorded in other offices, in the same manner and with the like effect as is set
forth in section 46:16-8 of this title in respect to deeds or instruments not recorded within ten years from
the date of acknowledgment or proof thereof.
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