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Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 3B:23-31

  • 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
If a personal representative fails to pay a distributive share to a person thereto entitled under a judgment made pursuant to N.J.S. 3B:23-17, that person may recover the distributive share in a civil action from the personal representative.

L.1981, c. 405, s. 3B:23-31, eff. May 1, 1982.