New Jersey Statutes 34:11-32. Procedure where personal property is removed under process without payment of wages of debtor’s employees
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Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 34:11-32
- Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
- Personal property: All property that is not real property.
- Personal property: includes goods and chattels, rights and credits, moneys and effects, evidences of debt, choses in action and all written instruments by which any right to, interest in, or lien or encumbrance upon, property or any debt or financial obligation is created, acknowledged, evidenced, transferred, discharged or defeated, in whole or in part, and everything except real property as herein defined which may be the subject of ownership. See New Jersey Statutes 1:1-2
- Plaintiff: The person who files the complaint in a civil lawsuit.
If an officer shall by virtue of execution, attachment or other process remove any personal property from the possession or premises of any employer against whom the process is directed without first paying to the employees of such employer their wages owing and earned or accrued to the amount specified in section 34:11-31 of this title, such personal property shall not be sold by the officer until ten days after such removal and then not until the plaintiff or party causing the levy shall, before the sale, pay to such employees such wages upon the payment of which the process may be executed and sale made; provided the persons to whom such wages may be owing, shall within ten days after such removal give notice to the officer holding such process of the amount of wages due, and claim the same, which notice may be served by delivery to the officer or leaving a copy thereof at his usual place of abode.