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2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 2A - Administration of Civil and Criminal Justice › Section 2A:19-1 - Definitions.

2A:19-1. Definitions.
2A:19-1. As used in this chapter:
a. "General assignment" means a transfer or conveyance by a debtor in writing, whereby the debtor transfers or conveys to an assignee, in trust for the benefit of his creditors, all of his property. A "general assignment" includes an assignment by a debtor made under section 2A:20-6 of this title.
b. "Debtor" means any person liable on a debt, including any person in actual confinement or discharged under bond pursuant to chapter 20 of this title.
c. "Court" means the Superior Court.
d. "Creditor" includes any person to whom a debt is due.
e. "Debt" includes any debt, demand or claim.
f. "Assignor" means any debtor who has executed a general assignment.
g. "Assignee" means an assignee under a general assignment, including an assignee appointed under chapter 20 of this title.
L.1951 (1st SS), c.344; amended 1991,c.91,s.70.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 2A - Administration of Civil and Criminal Justice › Section 2A:19-2 - Assignments must be for equal benefit; preferences void

2A:19-2. Assignments must be for equal benefit; preferences void
Every general assignment made by a debtor residing in this state shall be made for the equal benefit of his creditors in proportion to their several demands, to the extent of the net amount that shall come to the hands of the assignee for distribution. All preferences attempted to be made in any such assignment of one creditor over another, or whereby any one creditor shall be first paid or have a greater proportion in respect of his claim than another, shall be deemed fraudulent and shall render the assignment void.
L.1951 (1st SS), c.344.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 2A - Administration of Civil and Criminal Justice › Section 2A:19-3 - Transfer of property within 4 months of assignment to give preference void; recovery of property

2A:19-3. Transfer of property within 4 months of assignment to give preference void; recovery of property
If any person being insolvent or in contemplation of insolvency shall, within 4 months before the making of a general assignment, and with the intention of preferring any creditor or person under liability for him, mortgage, pledge, assign, pay or transfer any of his property, or procure or suffer any of his property to be taken, attached or levied upon, or any lien or encumbrance to be acquired thereon by legal process or otherwise, such preferential transaction shall be void as against the assignee. The assignee may recover the property given by way of preference, or the value thereof, from the person so receiving the same or so benefited thereby.
L.1951 (1st SS), c.344.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 2A - Administration of Civil and Criminal Justice › Section 2A:19-4 - Assignor to acknowledge assignment for recording as deed

2A:19-4. Assignor to acknowledge assignment for recording as deed
The assignor shall acknowledge the general assignment or cause the same to be proved according to law, so that it may be recorded as a deed to real estate.
L.1951 (1st SS), c.344.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 2A - Administration of Civil and Criminal Justice › Section 2A:19-5 - Assignor to annex inventory and list of creditors with their claims, to assignment

2A:19-5. Assignor to annex inventory and list of creditors with their claims, to assignment
The assignor shall annex to the general assignment an inventory, under oath of his estate, real and personal, together with a list of his creditors and the amount of their respective claims according to the best of his knowledge. Such inventory shall in nowise be conclusive as to the quantum of the assignor's estate, and the assignee shall be entitled to any other property which may belong to the assignor at the time of the assignment.
L.1951 (1st SS), c.344.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 2A - Administration of Civil and Criminal Justice › Section 2A:19-7 - Assignee to record and file assignment

2A:19-7. Assignee to record and file assignment
2A:19-7. The assignee, upon receiving a general assignment, shall forthwith record it, including the inventory and list of creditors with their claims, in the county where the assignor resides and in any other counties or states where he may deem it necessary. The same shall be recorded in this State in the office of the register of deeds in counties having such an office and in the office of the county clerk in other counties. A copy of the same, executed by the assignor or certified by the register or county clerk, shall be filed by the assignee with the surrogate of the county where the assignor resides or with the clerk of the Superior Court.
L.1951 (1st SS), c.344; amended 1991,c.91,s.71.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 2A - Administration of Civil and Criminal Justice › Section 2A:19-8 - Publication and mailing of notice; extension of time

2A:19-8. Publication and mailing of notice; extension of time
The assignee shall also forthwith give public notice by advertising at least 4 times during 4 consecutive calendar weeks, once in each week in a newspaper printed in this state and circulating in the neighborhood where the creditors reside. Such notice shall make known that a general assignment has been made, and the date thereof, and shall set forth a general description of any business carried on by the assignor and the place where the same was so carried on, and that all claims of creditors against the estate must be presented under oath to the assignee within 3 months from the date of the general assignment, or be barred from participating in a dividend of said estate.
The assignee shall also, within 30 days after the date of the general assignment, mail a copy of such notice to every creditor of the assignor, addressed to him at his usual post-office address, so far as the assignee can ascertain the same.
In case of failure to give such notice, or mail the same as above provided, the court may extend and fix the time for the presentation of claims and the giving and mailing notice thereof as aforesaid.
L.1951 (1st SS), c.344.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 2A - Administration of Civil and Criminal Justice › Section 2A:19-9 - Assignee to file inventory and valuation

2A:19-9. Assignee to file inventory and valuation
The assignee shall also forthwith file with the clerk of the court, under oath, a true inventory and valuation of the estate so far as it has come to his knowledge.
L.1951 (1st SS), c.344.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 2A - Administration of Civil and Criminal Justice › Section 2A:19-10 - Bond of assignee; additional security

2A:19-10. Bond of assignee; additional security
The assignee shall, after filing the inventory and valuation, forthwith enter into bond in such amount as the court may fix, for the faithful performance of his trust. The bond shall be filed with the clerk of the court.
In case at any time the security given by any assignee under this chapter shall be shown to be insufficient, the court shall direct him to give such additional security as it shall deem proper.
Every bond given under this section shall run to the superior court.
L.1951 (1st SS), c.344.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 2A - Administration of Civil and Criminal Justice › Section 2A:19-11 - Assignee not to proceed until bond, etc., filed

2A:19-11. Assignee not to proceed until bond, etc., filed
Until the inventory, valuation and bond required by this chapter are filed, the assignee shall not proceed to the discharge of his trust under the general assignment, further than may be necessary for the preservation of the assigned estate; but the court, before such inventory, valuation and bond are filed, may authorize the assignee to perform such other acts in the administration of the trust, and upon such terms, as it may deem necessary for the protection of the trust.
L.1951 (1st SS), c.344.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 2A - Administration of Civil and Criminal Justice › Section 2A:19-12 - Exemption to assignor

2A:19-12. Exemption to assignor
In case of any general assignment, other than a general assignment of partnership property or by a corporation, there shall be reserved of the goods and chattels of any assignor having a family residing in this state, goods and chattels to the value of $500, and all wearing apparel for the use of the assignor and his family. The assignee shall, at the written demand of the assignor, as soon after the assignment is executed as conveniently may be, cause a just and true appraisement of the assignor's goods and chattels at their actual value. The appraisement shall be made by 2 appraisers appointed by the assignee. The assignee shall thereafter set apart for the use of the assignor and his family such of the goods and chattels as the assignor may select from the appraisement, not exceeding in value the said sum of $500.
L.1951 (1st SS), c.344.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 2A - Administration of Civil and Criminal Justice › Section 2A:19-13 - Assignee's general powers as successor to assignor

2A:19-13. Assignee's general powers as successor to assignor
Every assignee shall have as full power and authority to dispose of all of the assignor's property, except as otherwise may be provided, as the assignor had at the time of the general assignment. He may sue for and recover in his own name everything belonging or appertaining to the estate. He may compromise, settle and compound all claims, disputes and litigations of the assignor, refer the same to arbitration, agree with any person concerning the same, redeem all mortgages and conditional contracts, and generally act as and do whatsoever the assignor might have lawfully done in the premises.
L.1951 (1st SS), c.344.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 2A - Administration of Civil and Criminal Justice › Section 2A:19-14 - Assignee's powers as representative of creditors; setting aside conveyances and transfers

2A:19-14. Assignee's powers as representative of creditors; setting aside conveyances and transfers
The assignee, in addition to the powers which he may exercise as the successor to the assignor, shall also at all times be the representative of the creditors of the assignor, and shall have the same power to set aside conveyances, and to recover or reach assets for the benefit of the creditors as a creditor would have who was the holder of a judgment and levy against the assignor and his property at the date of the assignment. All conveyances, mortgages and transfers of property, real or personal, made by the assignor, which are void or voidable as against the creditors of the assignor, shall in like manner be void or voidable as against the assignee.
L.1951 (1st SS), c.344.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 2A - Administration of Civil and Criminal Justice › Section 2A:19-15 - Subpoena; commitment for failure to testify

2A:19-15. Subpoena; commitment for failure to testify
The assignee may send for persons and papers and examine, on oath which he may administer, any persons, including the creditors and assignor, respecting the affairs, transactions and assets of the assignor, his debts, credits, obligations, contracts, and liabilities and claims asserted against the assignor.
If any person shall refuse to be sworn or to answer the questions put to him, or refuse to declare the whole truth touching the subject matter of the examination, the court may, on report by the assignee, commit such person to prison, to remain until he shall have submitted himself to be examined and have paid all the costs of the proceedings against him.
L.1951 (1st SS), c.344.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 2A - Administration of Civil and Criminal Justice › Section 2A:19-16 - Continuing assignor's business

2A:19-16. Continuing assignor's business
The court may, upon such notice to creditors as it may direct, authorize the assignee to continue for such a period and under such conditions as it may prescribe, any business of the assignor in which the assigned estate, or any part thereof, is invested.
L.1951 (1st SS), c.344.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 2A - Administration of Civil and Criminal Justice › Section 2A:19-18 - Assignee to sell real estate; manner of sale

2A:19-18. Assignee to sell real estate; manner of sale
Whenever any assignee shall take any real estate of the assignor under a general assignment, he shall, except as hereinafter provided, proceed to sell the same, at public or private sale, in the manner prescribed for an executor or administrator directed by the court to sell lands for the payment of the debts of a decedent.
L.1951 (1st SS), c.344.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 2A - Administration of Civil and Criminal Justice › Section 2A:19-19 - Assignee to submit sales of personalty for confirmation

2A:19-19. Assignee to submit sales of personalty for confirmation
The assignee shall submit all contracts for sale of personal property of the estate, whether by public or private sale, to the court for confirmation.
L.1951 (1st SS), c.344.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 2A - Administration of Civil and Criminal Justice › Section 2A:19-20 - Limitation of actions against assignee for taking or disposing of property

2A:19-20. Limitation of actions against assignee for taking or disposing of property
All actions at law or in equity which may be brought against any assignee on account of the taking, appropriating, selling or disposing of any property by him as a part of the trust estate, shall be commenced within 9 months from the time when the cause of action shall arise, and not afterwards.
L.1951 (1st SS), c.344.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 2A - Administration of Civil and Criminal Justice › Section 2A:19-21 - Reconveyance to assignor upon composition with creditors; proceedings

2A:19-21. Reconveyance to assignor upon composition with creditors; proceedings
If after a general assignment the assignor shall make an agreement of compromise or composition with his creditors, the court may, if it confirms the agreement, authorize the assignee to reassign and reconvey to the assignor all the trust estate in his hands, in whatsoever form the same may be, free and discharged from the trust.
L.1951 (1st SS), c.344.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 2A - Administration of Civil and Criminal Justice › Section 2A:19-22 - Claims due or to become due are presentable

2A:19-22. Claims due or to become due are presentable
Any creditor may present not only any debt due, but any debt to become due, making in such case a reasonable rebate when interest is not accruing on the same.
L.1951 (1st SS), c.344.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 2A - Administration of Civil and Criminal Justice › Section 2A:19-23 - Claims filed after time share only in subsequent dividends

2A:19-23. Claims filed after time share only in subsequent dividends
If any creditor shall fail to present his claim to the assignee within 3 months from the date of a general assignment, or within such other time as may be fixed by the court for that purpose, his claim shall be barred of a dividend, except that any creditor may, at any time prior to the making of a final dividend, present his claim under oath to the assignee, and share in any dividend made after such presentation.
L.1951 (1st SS), c.344.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 2A - Administration of Civil and Criminal Justice › Section 2A:19-24 - Claims filed after time; notice; exceptions; adjudication

2A:19-24. Claims filed after time; notice; exceptions; adjudication
Upon the presentation of any claim after time as authorized by section 2A:19-23 of this title, the assignee, before allowing the same, shall give notice thereof by mail to the other creditors who have proved their claims, as directed by section 2A:19-26 of this title in relation to claims proved in time. The claim shall be subject to the same exceptions by the assignee or the other creditors as a claim filed in time and may be adjudicated upon in like manner.
L.1951 (1st SS), c.344.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 2A - Administration of Civil and Criminal Justice › Section 2A:19-25 - Assignee to file list of creditors, statement of claims, and proof of notice

2A:19-25. Assignee to file list of creditors, statement of claims, and proof of notice
At the expiration of the time for the presentation of claims, notice having been duly given and mailed as provided in section 2A:19-8 of this title, the assignee shall file with the clerk of the court a true list, under oath, of all the creditors of the assignor who have proved their claims before him, with a true statement of their respective claims, and due proof of the publication and mailing of the notice above-mentioned. Such proof shall give in detail the names of the persons to whom, with the respective addresses to which, and the time when, such notices were mailed.
L.1951 (1st SS), c.344.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 2A - Administration of Civil and Criminal Justice › Section 2A:19-26 - Notice of filing such list and statement; proof of mailing

2A:19-26. Notice of filing such list and statement; proof of mailing
Within 10 days after the filing of the list of creditors and the statement of their claims, the assignee shall mail notice of such filing to every creditor who has proved his claim, addressed to the creditor at his usual post-office address, so far as the assignee can ascertain, and shall, within said 10 days, also file with the clerk of the court due proof of the mailing of such notice.
L.1951 (1st SS), c.344.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 2A - Administration of Civil and Criminal Justice › Section 2A:19-27 - Extending time for compliance with sections 2A:19-25 and 2A:19-26

2A:19-27. Extending time for compliance with sections 2A:19-25 and 2A:19-26
In case of failure to comply with the provisions of sections 2A:19-25 and 2A:19-26 of this title, the court may extend and fix the time of any of the duties of the assignee which he may have failed to perform.
L.1951 (1st SS), c.344.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 2A - Administration of Civil and Criminal Justice › Section 2A:19-28 - Assignee's inventory, list of creditors and statement of claims to be proved and recorded

2A:19-28. Assignee's inventory, list of creditors and statement of claims to be proved and recorded
The inventory and list of creditors, with the statement of claims, as required by sections 2A:19-9 and 2A:19-25 of this title to be filed by the assignee, shall be recorded by the clerk of the court in a book provided for that purpose and called "assignee's book" .
L.1951 (1st SS), c.344.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 2A - Administration of Civil and Criminal Justice › Section 2A:19-29 - Exceptions to claims

2A:19-29. Exceptions to claims
At any time within 60 days after the list of creditors and statement of claims have been filed and notice thereof has been mailed to the creditors, the assignee, or any creditor or other person interested, may file in the court exceptions to the allowance or rejection by the assignee of claim or demand of any creditor exhibited as aforesaid. The court may then adjudicate upon such claim or demand.
L.1951 (1st SS), c.344.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 2A - Administration of Civil and Criminal Justice › Section 2A:19-30 - Wages of clerks, mechanics, and laborers, preferred

2A:19-30. Wages of clerks, mechanics, and laborers, preferred
The wages of clerks, mechanics and laborers due from the assignor at the time of the general assignment including wages fully earned though not then payable, shall be preferred and shall be paid by the assignee before any other claim or debt. In case any such wages have been partly earned at the time of the assignment, but are not then payable, the same shall be equitably apportioned and shall be paid as preferred debts insofar as they have been earned up to the said time. No payment of more than $300 shall be made as a preferred debt to any one person. In case any claim shall receive a preference to the extent of $300 under this section, any balance thereof remaining unpaid shall be entitled to all dividends to be calculated upon such balance as upon a claim of a general creditor.
L.1951 (1st SS), c.344.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 2A - Administration of Civil and Criminal Justice › Section 2A:19-31 - Landlord's lien on assignor's goods

2A:19-31. Landlord's lien on assignor's goods
Where the assignor is a tenant, all of his goods and chattels on the premises, in his possession, shall be subject to a lien for the payment of rent due to the landlord. The claim for rent in favor of the landlord, not exceeding 1 year's rent, shall be first paid and satisfied by the assignee out of the goods and chattels of the tenant which were on the demised premises at the time of the assignment.
L.1951 (1st SS), c.344.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 2A - Administration of Civil and Criminal Justice › Section 2A:19-32 - Landlord's rights where assignor's goods removed

2A:19-32. Landlord's rights where assignor's goods removed
If the tenant, his assignee, or any other person, shall remove any goods and chattels from the demised premises, after the assignment, the landlord, at any time within 40 days after such removal, may seize such goods and chattels in whosesoever hands the same may be found, as a distress for his rent, and proceed with the same in the manner directed by law concerning distresses, whether the rent by the terms of the lease be due or not, making a rebate on the sum not due, as is required where a party suing out execution pays rent not due to the landlord.
L.1951 (1st SS), c.344.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 2A - Administration of Civil and Criminal Justice › Section 2A:19-33 - Assignee to proceed to make dividends

2A:19-33. Assignee to proceed to make dividends
If no exceptions to any claim or demand are filed, or in case any exceptions are filed, then after they have been adjudicated or settled, the assignee shall proceed to make, from time to time, fair and equal dividends among said creditors from the assets which shall come to hand in proportion to their claims.
L.1951 (1st SS), c.344.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 2A - Administration of Civil and Criminal Justice › Section 2A:19-34 - Partial distribution

2A:19-34. Partial distribution
The court, in its discretion, on the application of the assignee or any person in interest, from time to time, may direct such partial distribution from the assets in hand to those creditors whose claims are not in dispute as may safely be made, reserving at all times sufficient assets to secure, after all the claims shall have been adjudicated and finally settled, an equal and proportionate distribution according to the intent of this chapter.
L.1951 (1st SS), c.344.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 2A - Administration of Civil and Criminal Justice › Section 2A:19-35 - Directions as to dividends

2A:19-35. Directions as to dividends
The court may, in its discretion, upon application of the assignee, or of any person in interest, make directions with respect to any or all dividends, including the time when the same shall be made and the amount thereof.
L.1951 (1st SS), c.344.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 2A - Administration of Civil and Criminal Justice › Section 2A:19-36 - Death or incapacity of assignee; successor

2A:19-36. Death or incapacity of assignee; successor
In case the assignee shall die or become incapable of executing his trust the court shall, upon application of any person in interest, appoint some suitable person or persons in his stead.
L.1951 (1st SS), c.344.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 2A - Administration of Civil and Criminal Justice › Section 2A:19-37 - Removal for maladministration, neglect, or other cause; successor

2A:19-37. Removal for maladministration, neglect, or other cause; successor
In case any assignee shall embezzle, waste or misapply any part of the trust estate in his hands or under his control, or shall neglect or refuse to execute his trust, or to perform and obey any order or judgment of the court in respect of his trust, or shall remove from the state, or for a reasonable or just cause manifested to the court shall desire to be relieved from his office, then the court may remove the assignee and appoint a suitable person or persons in his stead.
L.1951 (1st SS), c.344.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 2A - Administration of Civil and Criminal Justice › Section 2A:19-38 - Estate vests in new assignee; accounting and delivery by predecessor

2A:19-38. Estate vests in new assignee; accounting and delivery by predecessor
Upon the appointment of any new assignee as aforesaid, the entire trust estate, in whatsoever form the same then may be, shall forthwith vest in him. The court may compel the removed assignee, or the personal representative of the former assignee, to account in said court for his trust, to deliver possession of the estate in his hands to his successor, to pay over to such successor any balance found due on the accounting, and to execute such conveyance of the trust estate to his successor as the court may direct.
L.1951 (1st SS), c.344.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 2A - Administration of Civil and Criminal Justice › Section 2A:19-39 - Powers and duties of new assignee

2A:19-39. Powers and duties of new assignee
Every new assignee shall have all the powers and rights and perform all the duties not already performed, conferred and imposed by the assignment or by law upon the original assignee.
L.1951 (1st SS), c.344.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 2A - Administration of Civil and Criminal Justice › Section 2A:19-40 - Bond of new assignee

2A:19-40. Bond of new assignee
Every new assignee shall enter into bond for the faithful performance of his trust, in such amount as the court shall fix. The bond shall run to the superior court.
L.1951 (1st SS), c.344.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 2A - Administration of Civil and Criminal Justice › Section 2A:19-41 - Final and intermediate accounts

2A:19-41. Final and intermediate accounts
As soon as may be after the determination of all claims, the assignee shall render, on oath, a final account to the court. The court may, in its discretion, upon the application of the assignee or any creditor, or the surety on the assignee's bond or other person in interest, direct the assignee to render an intermediate or final account.
The settlement and judgment of the court shall be conclusive on all parties except for assets which may afterward come to hand, or except as relief may be had in a judgment in any action.
L.1951 (1st SS), c.344.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 2A - Administration of Civil and Criminal Justice › Section 2A:19-42 - Disposition of unclaimed money

2A:19-42. Disposition of unclaimed money
2A:19-42. Disposition of unclaimed money.
When an assignee states his final account, and there remains a balance, dividend sum or sum of money to be paid to a person and the person or his guardian, if he be under any disability, the balance, dividend sum or sum of money is intangible property remaining unclaimed in the possession of an assignee. After the period of time set forth in R.S.46:30B-37.1 has elapsed that property shall be presumed abandoned and handled in accordance with the "Uniform Unclaimed Property Act (1981)," R.S.46:30B-1 et seq.
L.1951 (1st SS), c.344; amended 1989,c.58,s.2.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 2A - Administration of Civil and Criminal Justice › Section 2A:19-43 - Compensation of assignee

2A:19-43. Compensation of assignee
Such commissions shall be made to the assignee or to the personal representatives of a deceased assignee, or to a person who has been removed by the court from his office as assignee for any cause other than his misconduct, on any intermediate or final account, as the court shall consider just, but not in excess of 20% on all sums received by the said assignee, except that this limitation shall be inapplicable where the amount of the estate is less than $500.00.
L.1951 (1st SS), c.344; amended by L.1963, c. 137, s. 1, eff. July 24, 1963.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 2A - Administration of Civil and Criminal Justice › Section 2A:19-45 - Corporation deemed resident of what county

2A:19-45. Corporation deemed resident of what county
2A:19-45. A corporation making a general assignment shall be deemed, for the purposes of this chapter, a resident of the county in which its principal office is located.
L.1951 (1st SS), c.344; amended 1991,c.91,s.72.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 2A - Administration of Civil and Criminal Justice › Section 2A:19-46 - Assignee as party to receivership suit

2A:19-46. Assignee as party to receivership suit
The assignee may be made a party to any action in the superior court to have the corporation adjudged insolvent and a receiver thereof appointed, and may be enjoined, restrained and removed in such action and subjected to all orders and judgments therein. The said court may, if it sees fit, appoint the assignee of the corporation receiver thereof.
L.1951 (1st SS), c.344.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 2A - Administration of Civil and Criminal Justice › Section 2A:19-47 - Removal of assignee and transfer of estate to receiver

2A:19-47. Removal of assignee and transfer of estate to receiver
2A:19-47. In case a corporation shall, at any time after the making of a general assignment, be adjudged insolvent and a receiver thereof be appointed by the Superior Court, the said court may, whenever it may deem it to the interest of the stockholders or creditors, remove the assignee and direct and compel him to transfer and convey the trust estate in his hands to the receiver to be administered under the direction of said court. The assignee shall thereupon present his accounts to the Superior Court for settlement and allowance.
L.1951 (1st SS), c.344; amended 1991,c.91,s.73.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 2A - Administration of Civil and Criminal Justice › Section 2A:19-48 - Inclusion of individual estate

2A:19-48. Inclusion of individual estate
When a general assignment is made by partners in business, it may include only the partnership property or it may include also the several estates of the partners; or any of the partners may also make a separate general assignment of his individual estate.
L.1951 (1st SS), c.344.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 2A - Administration of Civil and Criminal Justice › Section 2A:19-49 - Partnership and individual estates to be kept separate

2A:19-49. Partnership and individual estates to be kept separate
In all cases where a general assignment includes both a partnership and an individual estate, the same shall be kept separate in all proceedings under this chapter, and all notices and accounts in relation thereto shall plainly distinguish between the different estates, and all proceedings, orders and judgments shall recognize the rights and equities of the different classes of creditors, to the end that the property assigned may be equitably applied to the payment of the claims of such creditors.
L.1951 (1st SS), c.344.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 2A - Administration of Civil and Criminal Justice › Section 2A:19-50 - One partner to reside in State

2A:19-50. One partner to reside in State
2A:19-50. In order to bring a general assignment of partners in business within the operation of this chapter, it shall be sufficient if any one of them resides in this State.
L.1951 (1st SS), c.344; amended 1991,c.91,s.74.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 2A - Administration of Civil and Criminal Justice › Section 2A:20-1 - Debtors in actual confinement

2A:20-1. Debtors in actual confinement
2A:20-1. Any person, in actual confinement for debt or damages in any jail of this State, who is willing to deliver up to his creditor or creditors all his estate, both real and personal, toward their payment, may bring an action, in a summary manner, for his discharge under this chapter, in the Superior Court.
L.1951 (1st SS), c.344; amended 1991,c.91,s.75.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 2A - Administration of Civil and Criminal Justice › Section 2A:20-2 - Persons arrested; discharge; requirements

2A:20-2. Persons arrested; discharge; requirements
2A:20-2. Any person arrested or held in custody by any officer in any civil action upon mesne process or process of execution, or who is surrendered in discharge of his bail, shall be discharged from arrest or custody by the officer upon compliance with the following requirements:
a. He shall make out and deliver to the officer making the arrest, or in whose custody he may be, a true and perfect inventory, under oath or affirmation, of all of his personal property and real estate, or any interest therein;
b. He shall give bond to the plaintiff at whose suit he is arrested, with sufficient security, in double the sum for which he is arrested or taken in execution. If the security is individual and not corporate, the surety or sureties shall be freeholders and resident of the county. Such bond shall be conditioned as follows:
1. That he will commence an action in the Superior Court on or before a certain designated date, not more than one month after the date of the bond and apply for his discharge under this chapter; and
2. That he will in all things comply with the requirements of this chapter; and
3. That he will prosecute such an action diligently until duly discharged as an insolvent debtor and, if refused a discharge, he will surrender himself immediately thereafter to the sheriff, warden or keeper of the jail of such county, there to remain until discharged by due course of law.
In case of the forfeiture of such bond by breach of any condition therein, the plaintiff, his executors or administrators, may bring an action thereon, and recover the debt, damages and costs due from such person, and for which such arrest was made.
L.1951 (1st SS), c.344; amended 1991,c.91,s.76.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 2A - Administration of Civil and Criminal Justice › Section 2A:20-3 - Persons arrested; discharge; action

2A:20-3. Persons arrested; discharge; action
2A:20-3. Any person arrested as stated in N.J.S.2A:20-2 and who has given the bond therein prescribed, may bring an action in a summary manner for his discharge under this chapter in the Superior Court.
L.1951 (1st SS), c.344; amended 1991,c.91,s.77.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 2A - Administration of Civil and Criminal Justice › Section 2A:20-4 - Officer's return on releasing person arrested; liability for escape

2A:20-4. Officer's return on releasing person arrested; liability for escape
When the officer has discharged the defendant from arrest under mesne process, upon giving bond as provided in this article, he shall so return on the process to the court or judge issuing the same, and shall also return therewith the inventory and bond taken by him pursuant to this article. The plaintiff may thereupon proceed to judgment, and have execution against the personal and real property of the defendant, as in other cases. When the defendant shall be discharged upon execution, the officer shall so return the same with the bond and inventory. The delivery of the bond to the plaintiff shall exonerate the officer from any liability for escape.
L.1951 (1st SS), c.344.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 2A - Administration of Civil and Criminal Justice › Section 2A:20-5 - Appointment of assignee authorized

2A:20-5. Appointment of assignee authorized
If in the action brought under section 2A:20-1 or 2A:20-3 of this title, the court is satisfied that the conduct of the debtor has been upright, the court shall appoint 1 or more suitable residents of the county where such debtor is imprisoned or was arrested as assignee or assignees of the debtor.
L.1951 (1st SS), c.344.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 2A - Administration of Civil and Criminal Justice › Section 2A:20-6 - Assignment of property to assignee; exemptions

2A:20-6. Assignment of property to assignee; exemptions
The debtor shall forthwith execute to the assignee a general assignment of all his real and personal property, with an inventory of his estate and a list of creditors as provided by chapter 19 of this title. The assignee shall have all the rights and powers and shall perform all the duties with respect to an assignee under said chapter 19, and all proceedings and other matters shall be governed by said chapter.
L.1951 (1st SS), c.344.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 2A - Administration of Civil and Criminal Justice › Section 2A:20-7 - Conveyances by debtor after arrest void; recovery by assignee

2A:20-7. Conveyances by debtor after arrest void; recovery by assignee
All conveyances, deeds, mortgages, judgments, sales, transfers, assignments or other disposition of, for or upon any of his estate, real or personal, made, given or executed after his arrest by any debtor shall be void as against his creditors and the assignee appointed hereunder.
The assignee may recover such estate or the value thereof against any person who may have purchased or in any manner come into the possession thereof after such arrest.
The right and remedies conferred by this section shall be in addition to those conferred by section 2A:19-3 of this title.
L.1951 (1stSS), c.344.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 2A - Administration of Civil and Criminal Justice › Section 2A:20-8 - Discharge of debtor from confinement on assignment of property

2A:20-8. Discharge of debtor from confinement on assignment of property
Upon making the assignment required by section 2A:20-6 of this title, the court may, by order, direct the sheriff to discharge the debtor from confinement on account of any debts previously contracted by him.
L.1951 (1st SS), c.344.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 2A - Administration of Civil and Criminal Justice › Section 2A:20-9 - Remand of debtor to prison on concealment of property

2A:20-9. Remand of debtor to prison on concealment of property
If the creditor at whose suit the debtor is imprisoned or was arrested, or any other creditor, shall in an action brought in a summary manner prove to the satisfaction of the court that the debtor has not fully delivered up to the use of his creditors all of his property, real or personal, or that he has concealed or kept back any part of his property or suffered a judgment to be entered against himself, or made any conveyance, deed, mortgage, sale, transfer, assignment or other disposition of his property, real or personal, with intent to defraud his creditors, the court shall remand him to prison, there to remain in close confinement until discharged by due course of law. In such an action, the debtor shall have a right to trial by jury.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 2A - Administration of Civil and Criminal Justice › Section 2A:20-10 - Discharge as immunity from imprisonment

2A:20-10. Discharge as immunity from imprisonment
Every insolvent debtor, who has given up all his estate and conformed in all things to the directions of this subtitle, shall, so far as regards the imprisonment of his person, forever thereafter be discharged from all debts due at the time of the assignment, or contracted for before that time, though payable afterwards.
L.1951 (1st SS), c.344.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 2A - Administration of Civil and Criminal Justice › Section 2A:20-11 - New applications on refusal of discharge

2A:20-11. New applications on refusal of discharge
If the court fails or refuses, for any reason, to discharge a person as an insolvent debtor or remands a person to prison, and such person surrenders himself immediately to the sheriff, warden or keeper of the jail of the county, he may make out and deliver to the sheriff, warden or keeper a new inventory and new bond as provided by section 2A:20-2 of this title. Thereupon he shall be discharged from arrest or custody pursuant to sections 2A:20-2 and 2A:20-3 of this title, provided he brings a new action for his discharge, in which action the same proceedings shall be had for that purpose, as fully and effectually as if no previous action had been brought.
L.1951 (1st SS), c.344.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 2A - Administration of Civil and Criminal Justice › Section 2A:21-2 - Bond for prison limits

2A:21-2. Bond for prison limits
Each prisoner in a civil action, giving bond to the sheriff, with sufficient sureties, in double the sum for which he is committed, to keep within the prison limits or bounds prescribed by section 2A:21-1 of this title, shall be at liberty to be at large therein. If the sureties in the bond are individuals and not corporate they shall be freeholders of and residents in the county.
L.1951 (1st SS), c.344.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 2A - Administration of Civil and Criminal Justice › Section 2A:21-3 - Forfeiture of bond; action thereon by sheriff or plaintiff

2A:21-3. Forfeiture of bond; action thereon by sheriff or plaintiff
If a prisoner at large within the prison limits after giving the bond required by section 2A:21-2 of this title voluntarily and intentionally goes out of and beyond the prison limits, such action on his part shall constitute an absolute forfeiture of his bond, and the sheriff to whom the bond has been given shall, or the plaintiff at whose suit the prisoner was committed to custody, if the bond has been assigned to him pursuant to section 2A:21-4 of this title, may, sue on the bond, although the prisoner may have returned within the prison limits before the commencement of such action, any law, custom or usage to the contrary notwithstanding.
L.1951 (1st SS), c.344.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 2A - Administration of Civil and Criminal Justice › Section 2A:21-4 - Assignment of bond to plaintiff on forfeiture thereof; action thereon

2A:21-4. Assignment of bond to plaintiff on forfeiture thereof; action thereon
If the bond mentioned in section 2A:21-2 of this title is forfeited, the sheriff, at the request of plaintiff or his attorney, shall assign the bond to plaintiff, by indorsement, and by attestation under his hand and seal in the presence of 2 or more witnesses. Plaintiff may then bring an action on the bond.
L.1951 (1st SS), c.344.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 2A - Administration of Civil and Criminal Justice › Section 2A:21-5 - Bond for prison limits by debtor refused discharge from imprisonment

2A:21-5. Bond for prison limits by debtor refused discharge from imprisonment
Any person in actual confinement for debt or damages in any jail in this state may give bond for the prison limits as provided by section 2A:21-2 of this title, and thereupon be discharged from imprisonment, except within such limits, notwithstanding any former verdict or judgment rendered against him in any action for his discharge under chapter 20 of this title (s. 2A:20-1 et seq.).
L.1951 (1st SS), c.344.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 2A - Administration of Civil and Criminal Justice › Section 2A:22-1 - Action in Superior Court

2A:22-1. Action in Superior Court
2A:22-1. The Superior Court shall allow an unmarried person of full age, a husband with his wife's consent, a wife with her husband's consent or a husband and wife jointly to adopt an adult person and may change the name of the adult, if the court is satisfied that the adopting parent or parents are of good moral character and of reputable standing in their community, and that the adoption will be to the advantage and benefit of the person to be adopted.
L.1951 (1st SS), c.344; amended 1991,c.91,s.78.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 2A - Administration of Civil and Criminal Justice › Section 2A:22-2 - Age of plaintiff; request by adoptee; waiver of requirements

2A:22-2. Age of plaintiff; request by adoptee; waiver of requirements
Such adoption shall not be granted, unless the adopting parent or parents are at least 10 years older than the person to be adopted and the latter has, in writing acknowledged by him as deeds are required to be acknowledged, requested the adoption and, if desired, the change of name. The court, upon being satisfied that the best interests of the person to be adopted would be promoted by granting the adoption, may waive any and all of the above requirements. Every such waiver shall be recited in any judgment of adoption thereafter entered.
L.1951 (1st SS), c.344; amended by L.1977, c. 212, s. 1, eff. Sept. 7, 1977.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 2A - Administration of Civil and Criminal Justice › Section 2A:22-3 - Effect of adoption; inheritance.

2A:22-3 Effect of adoption; inheritance.
2A:22-3. The adoption, when granted by the court, shall have the following effect:
a. The right of the person adopted, and of such persons as legally represent him on his death, to take and inherit intestate personal and real property from his natural parents and their kindred shall not be altered by the adoption.
b. In all other respects, all rights, privileges and obligations due from the natural parents to the person adopted and from the person adopted to them and all relations existing between such person and them shall be at an end, including the right of the natural parents and their kindred to take and inherit intestate personal and real property from and through the person adopted.
c. All rights, privileges and obligations due from the parents by adoption to the person adopted and from the person adopted to them and all relations between such person and them shall be the same as if the person adopted had been born to them in lawful wedlock, including the right to take and inherit intestate personal and real property from and through each other.
Except, however, that:
a. The person adopted shall not be capable of taking property expressly limited by a will or any other instrument to the heirs of the body of the adopting parent or parents, nor property coming on intestacy from the collateral kindred of the adopting parent or parents by right of representation; and
b. On the death of the parent or parents by adoption and the subsequent death of the person adopted, without issue or a spouse, the property of the deceased parent or parents by adoption shall descend to and be distributed among the heirs and next of kin of the parent or parents by adoption and not to the heirs and next of kin of the person adopted; and
c. If the parent or parents by adoption shall have another child or other children entitled to take and inherit from them on intestacy, such children and the person adopted shall, respectively, take and inherit intestate personal and real property from and through each other as if all had been children of the same parents born in lawful wedlock; and
d. Where a parent who has procured a divorce, or a surviving parent, having lawful custody of a child, lawfully marries again, or where an adult unmarried person who has become a resource family parent and has lawful custody of a child, marries, and such parent or resource family parent consents that the person who thus becomes the stepfather or the stepmother of the person so adopted may adopt the person so adopted, the rights, privileges and obligations due from the parent or resource family parent, so consenting, to the person adopted and from the person adopted to such parent and the relations existing between them shall not be altered by the adoption.
L.1951 (1st SS), c.344; amended 2004, c.130, s.9.