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NJ Rev Stat § 46:2B-17 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 46 - Property|Section 46:2B-17 - Power of attorney not made pursuant to this act valid

46:2B-17. Power of attorney not made pursuant to this act valid  This act is not intended to be the exclusive method of providing for powers of attorney for bank transactions and nothing herein shall be deemed to invalidate or make inoperable any power of attorney which is not made pursuant to this act and which is otherwise valid. A power of attorney for banking transactions pursuant to this act may be combined with a power of attorney for other purposes. The provisions of section 1 of P.L.1971, c.373 (C.46:2B-8) shall apply to any power of attorney made pursuant to this act.  L.1991,c.95,s.8.
NJ Rev Stat § 46:2B-18 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 46 - Property|Section 46:2B-18 - Banking institution may retain copy of power of attorney

46:2B-18. Banking institution may retain copy of power of attorney  The banking institution may retain a photocopy of the original signed power of attorney presented to it pursuant to subsection f. of section 4 of this act or may retain and rely upon the certified copies of the original as alternatively provided in subsection f. of section 4 and thereafter may rely on such photocopy or certified copy unless or until it receives knowledge or information that requires or permits it not to honor the power of attorney as provided in section 4.  L.1991,c.95,s.9.
NJ Rev Stat § 46:2B-19 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 46 - Property|Section 46:2B-19 - Agent acting pursuant to power of attorney shall be a fiduciary

46:2B-19. Agent acting pursuant to power of attorney shall be a fiduciary  An agent presenting or acting pursuant to or relying on a power of attorney described in section 2 of this act shall be a fiduciary within the meaning of the "Uniform Fiduciaries Law," P.L.1981, c.405 (C.3B:14-52 et seq.).  L.1991,c.95,s.10.
NJ Rev Stat § 46:2C-6 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 46 - Property|Section 46:2C-6 - Trust created for exclusive benefit of employees as part of pension, disability, death or profit-sharing plan

46:2C-6. Trust created for exclusive benefit of employees as part of pension, disability, death or profit-sharing plan  A trust consisting in whole or in part of real property, or personal property, or both heretofore or hereafter created by an employer as part of a pension plan, disability or death benefit plan, profit-sharing plan or other plan for the exclusive benefit of some or all of his employees, to which contributions are made by such employer or employees, or both, for the purpose of distributing to such employees the earnings or the principal, or both earnings and principal, of such trust, shall not be deemed to be invalid as violating any existing law, statutory or otherwise, against perpetuities or suspension of the power of alienation or against the accumulation of income; but such a trust may continue for such time as may be necessary to accomplish the purposes for which it may be created, and such trust may by its terms be made irrevocable, and the interest of any beneficiary thereof may be made nontransferable. L.1963, c. 159, s. 1. Amended by L.1967, c. 69, s. 1, eff. May 25, 1967.
NJ Rev Stat § 46:2C-7 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 46 - Property|Section 46:2C-7 - Definitions

46:2C-7. Definitions  "Employer" and "employee" as used herein include a self-employed person or persons, and "trust" includes trusts whose assets are commingled by the trustee with the assets of other trusts pursuant to any law authorizing the collective investment of trust funds, or pursuant to the express terms of the trust. L.1963, c. 159, s. 2.
NJ Rev Stat § 46:2E-14 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 46 - Property|Section 46:2E-14 - Disclaimer of interests previously governed by P.L.1979, c.492 (C.46:2E-1 to 46:2E-13).

46:2E-14 Disclaimer of interests previously governed by P.L.1979, c.492 (C.46:2E-1 to 46:2E-13).  93. A disclaimer of an interest by any person who is a grantee, donee, surviving joint tenant, surviving tenant by the entirety, surviving party to a joint deposit account, a P.O.D. account or a trust deposit account, person succeeding to a disclaimed interest, beneficiary under a nontestamentary instrument or contract, appointee under a power of appointment exercised by a nontestamentary instrument or a beneficiary under an insurance policy is governed by N.J.S.3B:9-1 et seq., as amended and supplemented by P.L.2004, c.132 (C.3B:3-33.1 et al.). L.2004,c.132,s.93.
NJ Rev Stat § 46:2F-9 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 46 - Property|Section 46:2F-9 - Rule against perpetuities abrogated

46:2F-9. Rule against perpetuities abrogated  13. No interest created in real or personal property shall be void by reason of any rule against perpetuities, whether the common law rule or otherwise. The common law rule against perpetuities shall not be in force in this State. L.1999,c.159,s.13.
NJ Rev Stat § 46:2F-11 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 46 - Property|Section 46:2F-11 - Applicability of C.46:2F-9 through C.46:2F-11 to property interests, powers of appointment

46:2F-11. Applicability of C.46:2F-9 through C.46:2F-11 to property interests, powers of appointment  15. a. Except as provided in subsection b. of this section, sections 13 through 15 of this amendatory and supplementary act apply to: (1) a future property interest or a power of appointment that is created on or after the effective date of this act; or (2) a future property interest or a power of appointment created before the effective date of this act pursuant to the laws of any other state that does not have the rule against perpetuities in force and to which, after the effective date of this act, the laws of this State are made applicable by transfer of the situs of a trust to New Jersey, by a change in the law governing a trust instrument to New Jersey law, or otherwise. For purposes of this section only, a future property interest or a power of appointment is created when the power is irrevocably exercised or when a revocable exercise becomes irrevocable. b. With respect to a nonvested property interest or a power of appointment created before the effective date of this act, which is determined in a judicial proceeding commenced on or after the effective date of this act, to violate this State's rule against perpetuities as that rule existed before the effective date of this act, a court upon the petition of an interested person may reform the disposition in the manner that most closely approximates the transferor's manifested plan of distribution and is within the limits of the rule against perpetuities applicable when the nonvested property interest or power of appointment was created. The "rule against perpetuities" as used in this subsection shall mean the provisions of sections 1 through 8 of P.L.1991. c.192 (C.46:2F-1 through 42:2F-8), in effect at the time stated herein, notwithstanding the repeal of those sections by this amendatory and supplementary act. L.1999,c.159,s.15.
NJ Rev Stat § 46:3-1 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 46 - Property|Section 46:3-1 - Feudal tenures abolished

46:3-1. Feudal tenures abolished  The feudal tenure estates, and the incidents thereof, taken away, discharged and abolished from and after March twelfth, one thousand six hundred and sixty-four, by section two of an act entitled "An act concerning tenures," passed February eighteenth, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-five, shall so continue to be taken away, discharged and abolished; and no such estate, or any incident thereof, shall, at any time, be created in any manner whatsoever.
NJ Rev Stat § 46:3-2 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 46 - Property|Section 46:3-2 - Certain tenures and holdings turned into free and common socage

46:3-2. Certain tenures and holdings turned into free and common socage  The tenures of honors, manors, lands, tenements, or hereditaments, or of estates of inheritance at the common law, held either of the king of England, or of any other person or body politic or corporate, at any time before July fourth, one thousand seven hundred and seventy-six, and declared, by section three of an act entitled "An act concerning tenures," passed February eighteenth, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-five, to be turned into holdings by free and common socage from the time of their creation and forever thereafter, shall continue to be held in free and common socage, discharged of all the tenures, charges and incidents enumerated in said section three.
NJ Rev Stat § 46:3-3 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 46 - Property|Section 46:3-3 - Certain conveyances to operate in free and common socage

46:3-3. Certain conveyances to operate in free and common socage  All conveyances and devises of any manors, lands, tenements or hereditaments, made at any time prior to July fourth, one thousand seven hundred and seventy-six, shall be construed to be of such effect as if such manors, lands, tenements or hereditaments had been then held and continued to be held in free and common socage only.
NJ Rev Stat § 46:3-4 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 46 - Property|Section 46:3-4 - Rents certain or rights and incidents to common socage not discharged

46:3-4. Rents certain or rights and incidents to common socage not discharged  Nothing contained in this title shall take away or be construed to take away or discharge any rents certain, or other rights incident or belonging to tenure in common socage created prior to July fourth, one thousand seven hundred and seventy-six, and due or to grow due to this state or any person, or the distresses incident thereunto.
NJ Rev Stat § 46:3-5 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 46 - Property|Section 46:3-5 - Alienation of freeholds (statute quia emptores terrarum)

46:3-5. Alienation of freeholds (statute quia emptores terrarum)  From and after March eighteenth, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-five, any freeholder may give, sell or alien the real estate whereof he is, or at any time shall be, seized in fee simple, or any part thereof, at his pleasure; and such donee, purchaser or alienee shall hold the same free of any tenure or service to the donor, seller or alienor.
NJ Rev Stat § 46:3-6 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 46 - Property|Section 46:3-6 - Gifts, grants and conveyances by state allodial

46:3-6. Gifts, grants and conveyances by state allodial  All gifts, grants, or conveyances, made prior to and after July fourth, one thousand seven hundred and seventy-six, of any estate of inheritance, by letters patent, under the great seal of this state, or in any other manner by this state, by the legislature thereof, or by the commissioners or agents of forfeited estates, or by other lawful and competent authority under this state, shall be and remain allodial, and not feudal, and shall forever be and continue in free and pure allodium only, forever discharged of all feudal tenures and the incidents thereof, and all other services whatsoever.
NJ Rev Stat § 46:3-7 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 46 - Property|Section 46:3-7 - Transferability of estates of expectancy

46:3-7. Transferability of estates of expectancy  From and after March fourteenth, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one, any person may devise, or, by deed, convey, assign or charge, any such contingent or executory interest, right of entry for condition broken or other future estate or interest in expectancy, as he may have or shall at any time be entitled to, or presumptively be entitled to, in any real estate, or any part of such right, estate or interest, although the contingency on which such right, estate or interest is to vest may not have happened; and every person to whom any such right, estate or interest shall have been or be devised, conveyed or assigned, his heirs or assigns, shall, on the happening of such contingency, be entitled to stand in the place of the person by whom the same shall have been or be devised, conveyed or assigned, his heirs and assigns, and to have the same interest, right or estate, or such part thereof, as shall have been or be devised, conveyed or assigned to him, and the same actions and remedies therefor as the person originally entitled thereto or his heirs would then have been entitled to if no devise, conveyance, assignment or other disposition thereof had been made. This section shall not be construed to have empowered or to empower any person to dispose of any expectancy which he may have had or have as heir of a living person, or any contingent estate or expectancy, where the contingency is as to the person in whom, or in whose heirs, the same may vest, or any estate, right or interest to which he may or may have become entitled under any deed to be thereafter executed, or under the will of any living person. This section shall not be construed to render any contingent estate or other estate or expectancy herein mentioned liable to be levied upon and sold by virtue of an execution.
NJ Rev Stat § 46:3-8 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 46 - Property|Section 46:3-8 - Grants of real estate, rents, reversions or remainders without attornment of tenant

46:3-8. Grants of real estate, rents, reversions or remainders without attornment of tenant  Every grant or conveyance of real estate or of the rent derived therefrom, or of the reversion or remainder thereof, shall be good and effectual without the attornment of the tenant; but no tenant who, before notice of such grant or conveyance, shall have paid the rent to the grantor, shall be prejudiced or suffer any damage by such payment.
NJ Rev Stat § 46:3-9 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 46 - Property|Section 46:3-9 - Conveyance of uses (statute of uses)

46:3-9. Conveyance of uses (statute of uses)  Every person, to whom the use or uses of any real estate within this state have been sold, given, limited, granted, released or conveyed by deed, grant or any other legal conveyance whatsoever, or that shall hereafter be granted by any deed or conveyance whatsoever, and his heirs and assigns, shall be held to be in as full and ample possession of such real estate, to all intents, constructions and purposes, as if such person, his heirs and assigns, were possessed thereof by solemn livery of seizin and possession, any usage or custom to the contrary notwithstanding.
NJ Rev Stat § 46:3-10 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 46 - Property|Section 46:3-10 - Fines and common recoveries abolished

46:3-10. Fines and common recoveries abolished  From and after June twelfth, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine, no fine or common recovery that has been or shall be entered, made, had or suffered in any court of record of this state, shall operate or be construed to be a conveyance or assurance of real estate, or in any way bar the issue in tail, or the reversioner or remainderman of their lawful claims and entries, any usage or custom to the contrary in anywise notwithstanding.
NJ Rev Stat § 46:3-11 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 46 - Property|Section 46:3-11 - Collateral warranties by ancestor abolished

46:3-11. Collateral warranties by ancestor abolished  A collateral warranty of real estate by an ancestor, who, at the time of making it, has no estate of inheritance in possession therein, shall be inoperative and void against his heirs.
NJ Rev Stat § 46:3-12 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 46 - Property|Section 46:3-12 - Warranties by life tenant void as to reversioners or remaindermen

46:3-12. Warranties by life tenant void as to reversioners or remaindermen  A warranty made by a tenant for life of real estate shall be inoperative and void against all persons to whom such real estate shall descend or come in reversion or remainder.
NJ Rev Stat § 46:3-13 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 46 - Property|Section 46:3-13 - Fee simple; creation by deed; construction favorable to creation

46:3-13. Fee simple; creation by deed; construction favorable to creation  Every deed conveying lands shall, unless an exception be made therein, be construed to include all the estate, right, title, interest, use, possession, property, claim and demand whatsoever, both in law and equity, of the grantor, including the fee simple if he had such an estate, of, in and to the premises conveyed, with the appurtenances, and the word "heirs" shall not be necessary in any deed to effect the conveyance of the fee simple; and every deed conveying lands to executors, trustees or other fiduciaries, in which the granting clause or habendum clause runs to the "successors and assigns" , shall, unless other words of limitation are used, be construed as conveying the fee simple of the grantor if he had such an estate, to the same effect as if the words "heirs and assigns" had been used. If, in any suit to reform a deed of conveyance of lands, whether absolute or by way of mortgage, the estate conveyed be limited to the grantee, his successors and assigns forever, or to the grantee, his legal representatives and assigns forever, such limitation shall, in the absence of other words in the deed clearly indicating an intention to limit the estate to the life of the grantee, be considered as presumptive evidence that the grantor intended thereby to convey an estate in fee simple in such lands, notwithstanding the omission of the word "heirs" from such deed.
NJ Rev Stat § 46:3-14 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 46 - Property|Section 46:3-14 - Rule in Shelley's Case abolished

46:3-14. Rule in Shelley's Case abolished  Whenever by conveyance, will or other instrument in writing, to take effect hereafter, an estate of freehold in any property is limited to a person and the same instrument contains a limitation, either mediate or immediate, to his heirs or the heirs or any of the heirs of his body or to his descendants or issue or any of them, in any manner or by any description such that, by the application of the rule of the common law, known as the Rule in Shelley's Case, the word "heirs" or other words used in creating the interest after such estate of freehold would be held to be words of limitation and not of purchase and such estate of freehold would be held to be enlarged by reason of the use thereof, then and in any such case the word "heirs" or other words so used shall hereafter be held to be words of purchase and not to be words of limitation and such estate of freehold shall not be held to be enlarged by the use thereof, to the end that the said rule of the common law, known as the Rule in Shelley's Case, shall not be applicable to any interest in property created by any instrument to take effect hereafter.
NJ Rev Stat § 46:3-15 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 46 - Property|Section 46:3-15 - Estates tail abolished

46:3-15. Estates tail abolished  Whenever any conveyance, will or instrument in writing shall hereafter be made, whereby any grantee, devisee or other person shall become seized in law or in equity of such estate in any real estate, as under the Statute of the Thirteenth of Edward I (called the Statute of Entails), would have been held an estate in fee tail of any type or character, such conveyance, will or instrument shall vest an estate in fee simple in such grantee, devisee or other person.
NJ Rev Stat § 46:3-16 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 46 - Property|Section 46:3-16 - Buildings and other things included in deeds to land

46:3-16. Buildings and other things included in deeds to land  Every deed conveying land shall, unless an exception shall be made therein, be construed to include all and singular the buildings, improvements, ways, woods, waters, watercourses, rights, liberties, privileges, hereditaments and appurtenances to the same belonging or in anywise appertaining; and the reversion and reversions, remainder and remainders, rents, issues and profits thereof, and of every part and parcel thereof.
NJ Rev Stat § 46:3-17 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 46 - Property|Section 46:3-17 - Tenancies in common; joint tenancies

46:3-17. Tenancies in common; joint tenancies  From and after February fourth, one thousand eight hundred and twelve, no estate shall be considered and adjudged to be an estate in joint tenancy, except it be expressly set forth in the grant or devise creating such estate that it was or is the intention of the parties to create an estate in joint tenancy and not an estate of tenancy in common, any law, usage, or decision theretofore made, to the contrary notwithstanding.
NJ Rev Stat § 46:3-17.1 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 46 - Property|Section 46:3-17.1 - Joint tenancies; creation

46:3-17.1. Joint tenancies; creation  Any conveyance of real estate, hereafter made, by the grantor therein, to himself and another or others, as joint tenants shall, if otherwise valid, be as fully effective to vest an estate in joint tenancy in such real estate in the grantees therein named, including the grantor, as if the same had been conveyed by the grantor therein to a third party and by such third party to said grantees. L.1950, c. 71, p. 129, s. 1, eff. April 25, 1950.
NJ Rev Stat § 46:3-17.2 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 46 - Property|Section 46:3-17.2 - Tenancy by entirety

46:3-17.2. Tenancy by entirety  A tenancy by entirety shall be created when:  a. A husband and wife together take title to an interest in real property or personal property under a written instrument designating both of their names as husband and wife; or  b. A husband and wife become the lessees of real property or personal property under a written instrument containing an option to purchase designating both of their names as husband and wife; or  c. An owner spouse conveys or transfers an interest in real property or personal property to the non-owner spouse and the owner spouse jointly under written instrument designating both of their names as husband and wife.  Language which states "....... and ......., his wife" or "........ and ........, her husband" shall be deemed to create a tenancy by the entirety.  L. 1987,c.357, s.5.
NJ Rev Stat § 46:3-17.3 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 46 - Property|Section 46:3-17.3 - Property interest

46:3-17.3. Property interest  No instrument creating a property interest on the part of a husband and wife shall be construed to create a tenancy in common or a joint tenancy unless it is expressed therein or manifestly appears from the tenor of the instrument that it was intended to create a tenancy in common or joint tenancy.  L. 1987, c. 357, s.6.
NJ Rev Stat § 46:3-17.4 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 46 - Property|Section 46:3-17.4 - Written consent of both spouses

46:3-17.4. Written consent of both spouses  Neither spouse may sever, alienate, or otherwise affect their interest in the tenancy by entirety during the marriage or upon separation without the written consent of both spouses.  L. 1987, c. 357, s.7.
NJ Rev Stat § 46:3-17.5 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 46 - Property|Section 46:3-17.5 - Surviving spouse sole owner

46:3-17.5. Surviving spouse sole owner  Upon the death of either spouse, the surviving spouse shall be deemed to have owned the whole of all rights under the original instrument of purchase, conveyance, or transfer from its inception.  L. 1987, c. 357, s.8.