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Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 46:28-14

  • Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
  • Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
  • Mortgagor: The person who pledges property to a creditor as collateral for a loan and who receives the money.
  • State: extends to and includes any State, territory or possession of the United States, the District of Columbia and the Canal Zone. See New Jersey Statutes 1:1-2
  • Uniform Commercial Code: A set of statutes enacted by the various states to provide consistency among the states' commercial laws. It includes negotiable instruments, sales, stock transfers, trust and warehouse receipts, and bills of lading. Source: OCC
46:28-14. The provisions of the Uniform Commercial Code, Secured Transactions, N.J.S. 12A:9-101 et seq., shall not be taken, construed or held to apply to any mortgage of personal property included in a mortgage of franchises and real estate heretofore or hereafter made by any railroad company or any other corporation defined by any law of this State as a public utility, and which has been or shall be recorded or registered as a mortgage of real estate in every county in which such railroad or public utility, or any part of it, or in which any of the real estate so mortgaged by it, is or shall be located, and any such mortgage so recorded shall be valid against the creditors of the mortgagor, and against subsequent purchasers and mortgagees until the same shall be released or shall be canceled of record in the manner prescribed by law for the release and cancellation of mortgages of real estate.

Amended 1961, c.121, s.11; 1963, c.190, s.2; 2001, c.117, s.26.