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Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 3B:26-3

  • Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
  • 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
  • Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
Distribution or any other disposition of the property of an absent person may be made under direction of the court when he is presumed dead under N.J.S. 3B:27-1, or sooner if the death of the absent person is established by evidence satisfactory to the court. If the absent person returns or the need for management or protection ceases before distribution or other disposition, the trustee shall restore to him the property, after deduction of the reasonable expenses of the trust and compensation of the trustees.

L.1981, c. 405, s. 3B:26-3, eff. May 1, 1982.