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Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 2A:33-10

  • person: includes corporations, companies, associations, societies, firms, partnerships and joint stock companies as well as individuals, unless restricted by the context to an individual as distinguished from a corporate entity or specifically restricted to one or some of the above enumerated synonyms and, when used to designate the owner of property which may be the subject of an offense, includes this State, the United States, any other State of the United States as defined infra and any foreign country or government lawfully owning or possessing property within this State. See New Jersey Statutes 1:1-2
2A:33-10. After the inventory and appraisement, the person distrained for rent shall sell at public vendue the property so distrained. He shall give five days’ public notice by advertising the articles to be sold and the time and place of sale, in at least three of the most public places in the municipality where the distress shall be made, and sell the same for the best price that can be secured towards satisfaction of the rent and charges of the distress, appraisement and sale, leaving the overplus, if any, with the sheriff for the owner’s use.

L.1951 (1st SS), c.344; amended 2023, c.250, s.3.