New Jersey Statutes 2A:35A-14. Severability
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Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 2A:35A-14
- Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
- 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
- Remainder: An interest in property that takes effect in the future at a specified time or after the occurrence of some event, such as the death of a life tenant.
If the provisions of any section or clause of this act or any rule, regulation or order adopted hereunder or the application thereof to any person shall be judged invalid by a court of competent jurisdiction, such order or judgment shall be confined in its operation to the controversy in which it was rendered, and shall not affect or invalidate the remainder of any provision of any section or clause of this act or any rule, regulation or order adopted hereunder or the application of any part thereof to any other person or circumstance and to this end, the provisions of each section and clause of this act and rule, regulation or order are hereby declared to be severable.
L.1974, c. 169, s. 14, eff. Dec. 9, 1974.