Title 2A, Title 2A: ADMINISTRATION OF CIVIL AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE

2A:17-13. Priorities among executions against real estate of same person Where several writs of execution shall be issued against the goods and chattels and real estate of the same person, and sufficient cannot be found to satisfy all the sums commanded to be made, the like prior…

2A:17-14. Title of purchaser of personalty prior to actual levy but after delivery of writ to officer The title of a purchaser who in good faith has purchased goods and chattels from an execution defendant and has paid for them prior to the actual levy of an execution thereon, wi…

2A:17-15. Money Money belonging to a defendant in execution may be levied on and returned by virtue of an execution as so much money collected, without exposing the same to sale. L.1951 (1st SS), c.344.

2A:17-16. Shares of stock Shares of stock in any corporation, incorporated under authority of this state, another state, the United States or another country, belonging to an execution defendant, may be taken and sold by virtue of an execution in the same manner as goods and chat…

2A:17-17. Real estate liable to execution. 2A:17-17. All real estate shall be liable to be levied upon and sold by executions to be issued on judgments obtained in any court of record in this State, except the Superior Court, Law Division, Special Civil Part, for the payment and …

2A:17-17.1 Short title. 1. This act shall be known and may be cited as the “New Jersey Veterans and Military Spouses Asset Protection Act.”L.2025, c.326, s.1.

2A:17-17.2 Findings, declarations. 2. The Legislature finds and declares that: a. Veterans, active duty service members, and families of veterans and service members make extraordinary sacrifices in service to the State and this country. b. Many veterans and veterans’ families fa…

2A:17-17.3 Definitions. 3. As used in this act: “Military spouse” means the spouse or surviving spouse of a veteran or service member. “Primary residence” means the dwelling house, including the land, where the veteran, service member, or military spouse resides. “Secondary resid…

2A:17-17.4 Exemptions for primary, secondary residences of veterans, service members, military spouses. 4. a. Notwithstanding any other law to the contrary, the primary and secondary residences of a veteran, service member, or military spouse shall be exempt from levy, execution,…

2A:17-17.5 Benefits, retirement, pensions protections for veterans, service members, military spouses. 5. a. The retirement accounts, pensions, disability benefits, and veterans’ benefits of veterans, service members, and military spouses shall be exempt from creditor claims. b. …

2A:17-17.6 Violations. 6. a. Any attempted levy, execution, or sale in violation of this act shall be void and unenforceable. b. The protections under this act are in addition to any rights provided under federal law, including the “Servicemembers Civil Relief Act,” 50 U.S.C. s.3…

2A:17-18. Proprietary rights and shares All proprieties, rights, share and shares of propriety and rights to unlocated lands shall be liable to levy and sale under an execution issued on a judgment for the payment of debt, damages and costs or sum of money thereby recovered, as o…

2A:17-19. Amount; exceptions Goods and chattels, shares of stock or interests in any corporation and personal property of every kind, not exceeding in value, exclusive of wearing apparel, $1,000.00, and all wearing apparel, the property of a debtor shall be reserved, both before …

2A:17-2. Record of execution against real estate Every writ of execution which shall be sued forth against real estate shall, before its delivery to the sheriff or other officer, be recorded in a book to be kept for that purpose by the clerk of the court out of which the same was…

2A:17-20. Inventory of personal property subject to levy The sheriff or other officer having an execution or civil process against a defendant entitled to the exemption given by this article shall make a careful and particular inventory of the personal property of every kind and …

2A:17-21. Appraisers; appointment After making the levy and the inventory, the sheriff or other officer shall appoint in writing 3 discreet and judicious persons of his county, indifferent between the parties to the execution to make a just and true appraisement of the personal p…

2A:17-22. Oath of appraisers The appraisers, before acting under their appointment, shall be severally sworn faithfully, honestly and impartially to appraise the property levied on, according to the true and intrinsic value thereof, without reference to what the same might be sup…

2A:17-23. Appraisement made The appraisers shall appoint a time and place where they will make their appraisement, and shall cause at least 5 days' notice in writing thereof to be given to the execution plaintiff or his attorney, at which time and place they shall, in the presenc…

2A:17-24. Procedure after valuation; selection by execution defendant; sale of residue If the value of the property as found by the appraisement does not exceed $500, the sheriff or other officer shall allow the same to remain in the possession of the execution defendant for the …

2A:17-25. Inventory, appraisement and selection annexed to and returned with writ The sheriff or other officer shall, in each case, annex his inventory and the account made by the appraisers, and the execution debtor's statement of his selection, if any, to the execution or proce…

2A:17-26. Claim and set-off of exemption when executions issue to several counties When several executions into different counties shall issue on the same judgment, the proceedings to set off the property under this article for the benefit of the family of the execution defendant…

2A:17-27. Selection of exemption by wife or family or appraisers If an execution defendant shall be absent from his place of residence when the appraisement by the appraisers is completed, and cannot readily be found, or refuses to make selection from the personal property invent…

2A:17-28. Selection of exemption on death of execution defendant If an execution defendant dies after execution issued, and a levy and sale of personal property be made thereafter, the exemption selection to be reserved for the use of his family shall be made by the person or per…

2A:17-28.1 Holocaust reparations payments, exemption from claims, levy, execution, attachment. 1. Except for an income withholding order issued pursuant to the "New Jersey Child Support Program Improvement Act," P.L.1998, c.1 (C.2A:17-56.7a et al.), monetary reparations payments …

2A:17-29. Notice to levying officer; stay of sale; jury to try claim 2A:17-29. When, by virtue of an execution issued out of any court of this State, goods or chattels are levied on or taken into possession by a sheriff or other authorized officer, and claim is made thereto by a …

2A:17-3. Issue of execution without revival of judgment Execution may issue, without a revival of the judgment, at any time within 20 years after its entry. L.1951 (1st SS), c.344.

2A:17-30. Verdict of jury; effect The sheriff or other officer, upon complying with the judgment entered in the summary action, shall be protected from any action for taking and seizing or delivering such property claimed to the claimant. L.1951 (1st SS), c.344.

2A:17-31. Disposal of property claimed according to judgment If the property to which claim has been made is found to belong to the claimant, the sheriff shall proceed no further with the execution as to that property; but if found to belong to the same defendant he shall make di…

2A:17-32. Indemnity to sheriff by creditor against demand of claimant If the execution creditor indemnifies the sheriff making the levy against the demand of the claimant, further proceedings in the claimant's action shall be suspended and the sale proceeded with as directed by t…

2A:17-33. Advertisement of sale of goods and chattels; posting No sale of goods or chattels shall be made by virtue of any execution without previous notice of the time and place of the intended sale, given by the officer making the levy, by advertisements, signed by the officer …

2A:17-34. Advertisement of sale of real estate to state amount of judgment or order and street numbers of real estate All advertisements for the sale of real estate by virtue of executions issued out of any court of this state shall state the approximate amount of the judgment or…

2A:17-35. Notice of time and place of sale of proprietary rights The sheriff making a sale under execution of the proprietary rights or shares mentioned in section 2A:17-18 of this title shall give notice, by advertisements, signed by himself, and put up in his office and by an a…

2A:17-36 Adjournments of sale of real estate. 2A:17-36. Adjournments of sale of real estate. Notwithstanding any other law or court rule to the contrary, a sheriff or other officer selling real estate by virtue of an execution may make five adjournments of the sale, two at the re…

2A:17-37. Unauthorized adjournments; amercement of officer If a sale of real estate under process of execution shall be adjourned oftener or for a longer time than allowed by section 2A:17-36 of this title, without permission in writing, previously obtained of the party at whose …

2A:17-38 Statement of execution sales, disposition of revenues. 2A:17-38. a. When a sheriff or other officer makes a sale by virtue of an execution or executions to the sheriff or officer directed, the sheriff or officer shall, within 30 days thereafter, make and file, with his b…

2A:17-39. Sale of real estate free of lien of judgments or recognizances on which executions not issued Whereas, other judgments, and recognizances, besides those, or some of those, by virtue whereof the sale aforesaid was made, might affect the real estate so sold, if no provisi…

2A:17-4. Several executions to different counties on judgment rendered or docketed in superior court Upon all judgments recovered or docketed in the superior court, executions may issue at the same time to any county. L.1951 (1st SS), c.344.

2A:17-40. Deed to purchaser of real estate; recital of execution A sheriff or other officer selling real estate by virtue of an execution to him directed, shall make to the purchaser thereof a deed of the real estate sold, which shall recite the execution by virtue of which the r…

2A:17-41. Title of purchaser Said deed shall transfer to and vest in the purchaser as good and perfect an estate to the premises therein described as the execution debtor was seized of or entitled to at or before the judgment for the enforcement of which the execution issued, as …

2A:17-42. Variances between deed and execution or execution and judgment The deed mentioned in section 2A:17-40 of this title, shall be good and valid and received in evidence as such, notwithstanding any variance between the recitals in such deed and the execution or executions …

2A:17-43. Amendments to cure variances considered made Any court of this state in which the record or exemplification of any judgment or execution is offered in evidence in support of any deed or conveyance made by a sheriff or other officer pursuant to an execution directed to h…

2A:17-44. Reversal of judgment or execution; effect as to purchaser of real estate sold If any judgment or execution, the execution having been recorded as required by law, by virtue whereof a sale shall be made of real estate, shall be reversed, such reversal shall only operate …

2A:17-45. Sale by sheriff or coroner for time being of property levied upon but not sold; special order Whenever any sheriff or coroner, or other person to whom any writ of execution is directed levies on the goods and chattels or on the real estate of the party named therein, an…

2A:17-46. Effect of sales under execution and conveyances by sheriffs or coroners for the time being Any sale to be made by a sheriff or coroner for the time being, under authority of section 2A:17-45 of this title, of any estate, real or personal, and any conveyance to be made b…

2A:17-47. Sales made prior to May 14, 1938, under execution, decree, order or judgment, validated L.1938, c. 171, p. 382, entitled "An act validating the sale of certain lands, tenements, hereditaments or real estate made under any decree, judgment or order of any court of this s…

2A:17-48. Deed by sheriff after expiration of term of office to real estate sold under execution during term of office If any real estate, levied upon by virtue of any valid writ of execution by any sheriff, shall have been or shall be sold by him under such levy during the term …