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NJ Rev Stat § 2A:55-2 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 2A - Administration of Civil and Criminal Justice|Section 2A:55-2 - Representatives of 1 joint debtor chargeable as on joint and several obligations

2A:55-2. Representatives of 1 joint debtor chargeable as on joint and several obligations  The representative of 1 joint debtor dying in the lifetime of the other joint debtor, may be charged with the obligation in the same manner as the representative might have been charged if the joint debtors had been bound severally as well as jointly. L.1951 (1st SS), c.344.
NJ Rev Stat § 2A:55-3 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 2A - Administration of Civil and Criminal Justice|Section 2A:55-3 - Real sum due considered as the debt; judgment for penalty; discharge

2A:55-3. Real sum due considered as the debt; judgment for penalty; discharge  When an action is brought or a claim is made in an action on a bond, note or other contract containing a penalty to secure the payment of money only, the true sum due and not the penalty, shall be deemed to be the debt due. In all such actions or claims wherein the plaintiff or claimant shall succeed, judgment shall be entered only for such amount as the case may require, with interest until paid. L.1951 (1st SS), c.344.
NJ Rev Stat § 2A:55-4 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 2A - Administration of Civil and Criminal Justice|Section 2A:55-4 - Payment may be pleaded even though not made according to condition

2A:55-4. Payment may be pleaded even though not made according to condition  If, before action is brought on a bond, which has a condition or defeasance to make void the same on payment of a less sum, at a day or place certain, the obligor, his heirs, executors or administrators have paid to the obligee, his executors, administrators or assigns, the principal and interest due by the condition or defeasance of such bond, though such payment was not made strictly according to the condition or defeasance, it may be pleaded in bar, and shall be as effectual a bar to such action as if the money had been paid at the day and place, according to the condition or defeasance, and had been so pleaded. L.1951 (1st SS), c.344.
NJ Rev Stat § 2A:55-5 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 2A - Administration of Civil and Criminal Justice|Section 2A:55-5 - Defendant may bring money into court with costs, pending action; judgment of discharge

2A:55-5. Defendant may bring money into court with costs, pending action; judgment of discharge  If the defendant shall, at any time pending an action on any bond of the kind mentioned in section 2A:55-4 of this title, with a penalty, bring into the court where the action shall be pending, all the principal money and interest due on such bond, and all such costs as expended in an action upon such bond, the money so brought in shall be deemed and taken to be in full payment and satisfaction of such bond; and the court shall give judgment to discharge the defendant from the same accordingly. L.1951 (1st SS), c.344.
NJ Rev Stat § 2A:55-6 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 2A - Administration of Civil and Criminal Justice|Section 2A:55-6 - Compromise of joint indebtedness

2A:55-6. Compromise of joint indebtedness  Joint debtors may individually compromise with their creditors for their joint indebtedness in the same manner and with like effect as partners on the dissolution of the partnership may compromise with their creditors as provided by sections 42:5-1 to 42:5-5 of the title Partnerships and Partnership Associations, of the Revised Statutes. L.1951 (1st SS), c.344.
NJ Rev Stat § 2A:55-7 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 2A - Administration of Civil and Criminal Justice|Section 2A:55-7 - Settlement or compromise of claims against directors or sureties

2A:55-7. Settlement or compromise of claims against directors or sureties  In any case where several trustees, managers or directors of any insolvent corporation are liable to an action for unlawfully making any dividend or dividing, withdrawing or reducing capital, or for any default, negligence or malfeasance in the discharge of their duties, and in any case where several sureties on any bond for the performance of any duty or employment are liable to an action for any default, negligence or malfeasance of their principal, the receiver or trustees, or such person, corporation or officer that may bring such action, may settle and compromise with, release and discharge any one or more of the parties so liable, but no compromise or settlement shall be made without the approval first had and obtained from the court by which such receiver or trustee was appointed. Such settlement, compromise, release or discharge shall not affect or constitute any defense to any such action or right of action against the other parties so liable, but in such case the recovery against those not so settled with and discharged, or any of them, shall not exceed the proportion to which they or he would have been bound according to the rules of equity if no such settlement and discharge had been made. L.1951 (1st SS), c.344.
NJ Rev Stat § 2A:55-8 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 2A - Administration of Civil and Criminal Justice|Section 2A:55-8 - Settlement pending action

2A:55-8. Settlement pending action  When any such settlement shall be made in a pending action, it shall be made in writing and the original or a signed copy filed with the court. L.1951 (1st SS), c.344.
NJ Rev Stat § 2A:55-9 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 2A - Administration of Civil and Criminal Justice|Section 2A:55-9 - Several acts in condition in bond, bill, or contract

2A:55-9. Several acts in condition in bond, bill, or contract  When the condition of a bond, bill or contract provides for the performance of more than a single act, an action brought thereon with respect to a breach or breaches occurring prior to the commencement of the action shall not bar the bringing of other actions for any breach or breaches occurring thereafter. L.1951 (1st SS), c.344.
NJ Rev Stat § 2A:56-1 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 2A - Administration of Civil and Criminal Justice|Section 2A:56-1 - "Cotenant" ; executor or administrator with will annexed; definition and construction

2A:56-1. "Cotenant" ; executor or administrator with will annexed; definition and construction  As used in this chapter: "Court" means the superior court. "Cotenant" means and includes a tenant in common, joint tenant or coparcener, but not a tenant by the entirety. An executor or administrator with the will annexed, having, by the terms of the testator's will, power to sell any real estate or any undivided interest in any real estate of which his testator died seized, shall have the same power to bring an action to effect a partition of such real estate as such testator might have brought if living, and cotenant as used in this chapter shall include such an executor or administrator so far as may be requisite for such purposes. L.1951 (1st SS), c.344.
NJ Rev Stat § 2A:56-2 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 2A - Administration of Civil and Criminal Justice|Section 2A:56-2 - Partition through sale

2A:56-2. Partition through sale  The superior court may, in an action for the partition of real estate, direct the sale thereof if it appears that a partition thereof cannot be made without great prejudice to the owners, or persons interested therein. L.1951 (1st SS), c.344.
NJ Rev Stat § 2A:56-3 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 2A - Administration of Civil and Criminal Justice|Section 2A:56-3 - Division of part of real estate and sale of residue

2A:56-3. Division of part of real estate and sale of residue  In any action for partition in the superior court, part of the real estate included in the application may be divided and the remainder sold when it appears by the report of the commissioner or commissioners, which shall designate the lands to be divided and those to be sold, and by other satisfactory evidence that the whole of the real estate cannot be divided among the owners and proprietors without great prejudice to their interest. L.1951 (1st SS), c.344.
NJ Rev Stat § 2A:56-4 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 2A - Administration of Civil and Criminal Justice|Section 2A:56-4 - Set-off of undivided shares without partition between shareholders to be held in common

2A:56-4. Set-off of undivided shares without partition between shareholders to be held in common  Where 2 or more parties to an action for the partition of real estate make it appear to the court that they desire to enjoy their respective shares of the whole or any part of such real estate in common, the court may direct partition to be made so as to set off to such parties their shares of the real estate partitioned, without partition as between themselves, to be held by them in common. L.1951 (1st SS), c.344.
NJ Rev Stat § 2A:56-5 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 2A - Administration of Civil and Criminal Justice|Section 2A:56-5 - Set-off of undivided shares without partition between minor and others consenting to be held in common

2A:56-5. Set-off of undivided shares without partition between minor and others consenting to be held in common  Where any party to an action for the partition of real estate is under the age of 21 years, the court may, if it shall appear to be for the benefit of such minor, direct partition to be made so as to set off to such minor, and to any other party or parties to such action who may consent thereto, their respective shares in the real estate partitioned, without partition as between themselves, to be held by them in common. L.1951 (1st SS), c.344.
NJ Rev Stat § 2A:56-6 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 2A - Administration of Civil and Criminal Justice|Section 2A:56-6 - Title of some parties disputed; partition or sale as to undisputed parts not delayed

2A:56-6. Title of some parties disputed; partition or sale as to undisputed parts not delayed  When all defendants in any action in the superior court for partition of real estate fail to answer, or, by answer, admit or fail to deny the title of the plaintiff or of any co-defendant or co-defendants as alleged in the complaint, and do not contest the plaintiff's right to an actual partition of the real estate or to a sale thereof if actual partition is found to be impractical, but one or more of such defendants raises an issue of title as against a co-defendant or co-defendants, the plaintiff and each defendant whose title is not denied by any other defendant shall be entitled to a judgment, that the interest of the plaintiff and of each such defendant whose title is not questioned be set off by actual partition, if an actual partition be practicable, and if not, that the real estate be sold and the plaintiff and each defendant whose title is not questioned be paid his share of the net proceeds of sale, without waiting for the determination of the question of title as between the various defendants. The remainder of the real estate shall await, or the remainder of the proceeds shall be paid into court to await, the determination of the question of title before being partitioned or distributed, as the case may be, to or among the remaining defendants. L.1951 (1st SS), c.344.
NJ Rev Stat § 2A:56-7 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 2A - Administration of Civil and Criminal Justice|Section 2A:56-7 - Conclusive effect of proceedings and sale in partition

2A:56-7. Conclusive effect of proceedings and sale in partition  When real estate is partitioned in an action in the superior court, and process has been served or notice given as required by the practice of the court, or when the real estate is sold by virtue of an order made upon such partition proceedings, the partition or sale shall, unless reversed or set aside on appeal or other proceedings for review, be binding and conclusive upon all the cotenants and all persons claiming or to claim an interest in a share, in reversion or remainder notwithstanding any error or illegality in the proceedings for partition or sale. L.1951 (1st SS), c.344.
NJ Rev Stat § 2A:56-8 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 2A - Administration of Civil and Criminal Justice|Section 2A:56-8 - Conveyance to be recorded; effect

2A:56-8. Conveyance to be recorded; effect  A conveyance executed pursuant to sale under an action in partition in the superior court, shall be recorded in the county where the premises are situate, and shall be a bar, both in law and equity, against all persons interested in the real estate in any way, who shall have been parties in the action, and against all other parties claiming by, from or under such parties or any of them. L.1951 (1st SS), c.344.
NJ Rev Stat § 2A:56-9 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 2A - Administration of Civil and Criminal Justice|Section 2A:56-9 - Rights by paramount title saved

2A:56-9. Rights by paramount title saved  Nothing in this chapter contained shall be so construed as to injure, prejudice, defeat or destroy the estate, right or title of a person claiming the tract of real estate, or any part thereof, or anything therein, by title under any other person or by title paramount or superior to the title of the cotenants among whom partition is to be made. L.1951 (1st SS), c.344.
NJ Rev Stat § 2A:56-10 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 2A - Administration of Civil and Criminal Justice|Section 2A:56-10 - General proprietors not affected

2A:56-10. General proprietors not affected  Nothing in this chapter contained shall extend to the partitioning of the real estate held in common by the general proprietors of the eastern or western divisions of this state. L.1951 (1st SS), c.344.
NJ Rev Stat § 2A:56-11 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 2A - Administration of Civil and Criminal Justice|Section 2A:56-11 - Proceeds of sale; disposition

2A:56-11. Proceeds of sale; disposition  The money arising from a sale pursuant to this chapter shall be paid to the parties interested in the real estate sold, their guardians or legal representatives, in proportion to their respective rights therein, deducting from their respective shares the costs and charges which may be allowed and ordered to be retained. If any party is absent from the state, without such legal representative in this state the proportion of the money due him shall be invested under the direction and control of the court, for the benefit of such absent person. The court shall require the guardian of any person under the age of 21 years entitled to a proportion of the moneys arising from a sale pursuant to this chapter, to give such security by bond to the superior court as the court may deem sufficient, for the benefit of the minor, conditioned for the faithful discharge of the trust committed to the guardian. L.1951 (1st SS), c.344.
NJ Rev Stat § 2A:56-12 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 2A - Administration of Civil and Criminal Justice|Section 2A:56-12 - Trusts or limitations created by foreign will; disposition of proceeds of partition sale

2A:56-12. Trusts or limitations created by foreign will; disposition of proceeds of partition sale  When real estate situate in this state, or an estate therein, devised upon a trust or subject to a limitation over by way of expectancy or otherwise, by a person residing in another state at his death, is sold in a partition proceeding, the superior court shall, upon application and notwithstanding the estate of the devisee, trustee as aforesaid, created or passed by the will is subject to a limitation over or is less than an estate in fee simple, direct the proceeds of sale to be paid to such devisee, being trustee as aforesaid, as by the provisions of the will, under the trust, is entitled to have and hold the real estate, and to be held, accounted for and disposed of by him in all respects as directed by the provisions of the will, and not otherwise. Nothing herein contained shall relieve the devisee, trustee as aforesaid, from the duty of giving security, in the state of which the testator was a resident at his death, for the faithful execution of such trust in respect to the proceeds of sale, when required so to do by the provisions of the will or by order of a court of competent jurisdiction in that state. L.1951 (1st SS), c.344.
NJ Rev Stat § 2A:56-13 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 2A - Administration of Civil and Criminal Justice|Section 2A:56-13 - Receipts and discharges; record by surrogate; evidence

2A:56-13. Receipts and discharges; record by surrogate; evidence  When a commissioner or commissioners shall make sale of real estate pursuant to this chapter and distribute the net proceeds to the persons thereto entitled by law, the commissioner or commissioners may produce the receipts and discharges therefor to the surrogate of the county wherein the real estate, or the more valuable part thereof, is situate. The surrogate shall, if the receipts and discharges are proved and acknowledged in the manner in which conveyances of real estate are required to be proved or acknowledged, immediately record the receipts and discharges and such proof or acknowledgment in the book of receipts and discharges in his office. The surrogate shall indorse on each receipt and discharge the book and page where and the time when it was recorded and he shall sign his name thereto. Such record, or a certified copy thereof under the hand and seal of the surrogate shall, if it is made to appear that the original receipt and discharge has been lost or that it is not in the power of the party offering the evidence to produce the same, be received in evidence in any court of record in this state. L.1951 (1st SS), c.344.
NJ Rev Stat § 2A:56-14 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 2A - Administration of Civil and Criminal Justice|Section 2A:56-14 - Fees and costs

2A:56-14. Fees and costs  In proceedings pursuant to this chapter clerks and surrogates shall receive for their services in filing, recording and making copies of the various papers therein the fees allowed for similar services by the title Fees and Costs, of the Revised Statutes. L.1951 (1st SS), c.344.
NJ Rev Stat § 2A:56-15 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 2A - Administration of Civil and Criminal Justice|Section 2A:56-15 - Lienor not necessary party; effect of partition on lienor

2A:56-15. Lienor not necessary party; effect of partition on lienor  A person having a lien, by judgment, decree, mortgage or otherwise, on real estate, or any part thereof, whereof partition is sought in such an action in the superior court, shall not, in the first instance, be a necessary party to the proceedings, and, except as provided in section 2A:56-16 of this title, his lien shall not be altered, affected or impaired by partition of the real estate. L.1951 (1st SS), c.344.
NJ Rev Stat § 2A:56-16 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 2A - Administration of Civil and Criminal Justice|Section 2A:56-16 - Effect of partition on lienor on undivided interest

2A:56-16. Effect of partition on lienor on undivided interest  Where a lien mentioned in section 2A:56-15 of this title is on the undivided interest or estate of a party, the lien, if partition of the real estate is made, shall thereafter be a charge only on the share assigned to such party, but such share shall be charged first with its just proportion of the costs of the proceedings in partition, in preference to any such lien. L.1951 (1st SS), c.344.
NJ Rev Stat § 2A:56-17 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 2A - Administration of Civil and Criminal Justice|Section 2A:56-17 - Lienors may be made parties

2A:56-17. Lienors may be made parties  The plaintiff in such an action in partition may, at his election, make parties thereto every person having a lien, by mortgage, judgment, decree, devise or otherwise, on the undivided interest or estate of any of the parties. L.1951 (1st SS), c.344.
NJ Rev Stat § 2A:56-18 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 2A - Administration of Civil and Criminal Justice|Section 2A:56-18 - Lienors on undivided interests made parties when sale ordered

2A:56-18. Lienors on undivided interests made parties when sale ordered  Where lienors have not been made parties, the court may, before ordering sale of the premises, on motion of any party, admit as a party a person having a lien, by mortgage, judgment, decree, or otherwise, on the undivided interest, share or estate of any of the parties, and may thereupon ascertain and determine whether the shares or interests of the parties to the action, or any of them, are subject to a lien or encumbrance by mortgage, devise, judgment or decree or otherwise, and if so, to what liens or encumbrances, and by whom they are held. L.1951 (1st SS), c.344.
NJ Rev Stat § 2A:56-19 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 2A - Administration of Civil and Criminal Justice|Section 2A:56-19 - Proceeds of sale of share subject to liens paid into court

2A:56-19. Proceeds of sale of share subject to liens paid into court  If it appears by proceedings in such action or if the court shall determine, that there are any existing liens or encumbrances on the estate, share or interest of any party named in the proceedings, the court shall, if sale is ordered, in the order or judgment for sale direct the officer or commissioners, as the case may be, to bring into court and pay to the clerk thereof the portion of the moneys arising from the sale of the estate, share or interest of such party, after first deducting therefrom the portion of the costs, charges and expenses to which it shall be liable. L.1951 (1st SS), c.344.
NJ Rev Stat § 2A:56-20 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 2A - Administration of Civil and Criminal Justice|Section 2A:56-20 - Proceedings to obtain moneys deposited pursuant to section 2A:56-19

2A:56-20. Proceedings to obtain moneys deposited pursuant to section 2A:56-19  When money is deposited in the court pursuant to section 2A:56-19 of this title, the court may in a summary action brought by a party in interest, either owner or encumbrancer, direct payment to him of so much thereof as he shall claim. Notice of the action shall be served upon each owner of an encumbrance and, if the plaintiff is an encumbrancer, upon the owner of the share. L.1951 (1st SS), c.344.
NJ Rev Stat § 2A:56-21 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 2A - Administration of Civil and Criminal Justice|Section 2A:56-21 - Discharge of encumbrances

2A:56-21. Discharge of encumbrances  The clerk or other officer of the court by whom an encumbrance is paid off shall procure satisfaction thereof to be acknowledged in the form required by law, and cause the encumbrance to be duly satisfied or canceled of record, and shall defray the expenses thereof out of the portion of the moneys in court belonging to the party by whom the encumbrance was payable, if there be enough for the purpose, but if not, then out of the money due the encumbrancer. L.1951 (1st SS), c.344.
NJ Rev Stat § 2A:56-22 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 2A - Administration of Civil and Criminal Justice|Section 2A:56-22 - Parties having unencumbered shares not affected by proceedings

2A:56-22. Parties having unencumbered shares not affected by proceedings  The proceedings to ascertain and settle the amount of encumbrances as herein provided shall not affect any other party in the action for partition nor delay the paying over or investing of moneys to or for the benefit of any party except the one upon whose share in the premises the encumbrances exist. L.1951 (1st SS), c.344.