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Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 2A:163-4

  • 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
As used in this act:

a. “Child” means a person 13 years of age or younger at the time a crime was committed against the child.

b. “Victim” means a child who suffers personal, physical, or psychological injury as a result of a crime committed against that child.

L. 1987, c. 148, s. 1.