New Jersey Statutes 4:20-32. Violations of sections 4:20-30 and 4:20-31; penalty; damages
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Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 4:20-32
- Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
- Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
- 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
Any person who shall offend against the provisions of sections 4:20-30 and 4:20-31 of this Title, or shall willfully injure, dig up, or otherwise deface or destroy any hedge sets, hedges or fence erected for their protection, shall for each offense be liable to a penalty of thirty dollars ($30.00), to be recovered, with costs, in a court of competent jurisdiction, by a civil action by and in the name of the person injured, and in addition thereto shall be liable for all damages to the person injured.
Amended by L.1953, c. 5, p. 45, s. 56.