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

2A:14-2 Actions for injury caused by wrongful act, appointment of guardian ad litem. 2A:14-2. a. Except as otherwise provided by law, every action at law for an injury to the person caused by the wrongful act, neglect or default of any person within this State shall be commenced …

2A:14-2.1. 2 years; action by parent or other person for injury to minor child; joinder with action on behalf of minor child Where a parent or other person has a claim for damages suffered by him because of an injury to a minor child caused by the wrongful act, neglect or default…

2A:14-20. 16 years; actions on prison limits bonds No action at law brought upon a prison limits bond, given to the sheriff of any county by an insolvent debtor or person arrested upon final process in a civil action, shall in any way operate against or affect the sureties named …

2A:14-21 Disabilities affecting limitation; action on behalf of minor. 2A:14-21. If a person entitled to commence an action or proceeding specified in N.J.S.2A:14-1 to 2A:14-8 or N.J.S.2A:14-16 to 2A:14-20 or to a right or title of entry under N.J.S.2A:14-6 is under the age of 18…

2A:14-22. Tolling of statute of limitations 2A:14-22. a. If (1) any person against whom there is any of the causes of action specified in sections 2A:14-1 to 2A:14-5 and 2A:14-8, or if any surety against whom there is a cause of action specified in any of the sections of article …

2A:14-23. Death of person liable If any person against whom there is any of the causes of action specified in sections 2A:14-1, 2A:14-2, 2A:14-4, 2A:14-5 and 2A:14-8 of this title, or if any surety against whom there is a cause of action specified in any of the sections of articl…

2A:14-23.1. Cause of action belonging to decedent No statute of limitation running on a cause of action belonging to a decedent which had not been barred as of the date of his death, shall apply to bar a cause of action surviving the decedent's death sooner than 6 months after de…

2A:14-24. Acknowledgment or new promise In actions at law grounded on any simple contract, no acknowledgment or promise by words only shall be deemed sufficient evidence of a new or continuing contract, so as to take any case out of the operation of this chapter, or to deprive an…

2A:14-25. Indorsement or memorandum of payment on written obligation; effect No indorsement or memorandum of any payment written or made upon a promissory note, bill of exchange or other writing, by or on behalf of the party to whom the payment is made, shall be deemed sufficient…

2A:14-26. Military or naval service during war; effect on limitations The period of service, in time of war and 6 months thereafter, of any person, in active service in any of the armed forces of the United States, or the women's auxiliary corps, the women's reserve of the naval …

2A:14-26.1. Findings, declarations relative to statute of limitations regarding hemophiliacs infected with HIV, AIDS; accrual of actions 1. a. The Legislature finds and declares: (1) Over one-half of the people with hemophilia in this country were infected with the human immunode…

2A:14-26.2. Inapplicability of act 2. The provisions of this act shall be inapplicable to any civil action governed by the statute of limitations of another jurisdiction.L.1996,c.23,s.2.

2A:14-27. Set-off The limitations provided by this chapter shall apply to the case of any debt or demand for liquidated damages alleged by way of set-off. L.1951 (1st SS), c.344.

2A:14-28. New action after judgment reversed or relief granted If, in any of the actions or proceedings specified in sections 2A:14-1 to 2A:14-19, sections 2A:14-22 to 2A:14-25 or section 2A:14-27 of this Title, judgment is given for the plaintiff therein, and such judgment is re…

2A:14-29. Limitation of lien of civil recognizance All recognizances of bail made or entered into before any court, judge or magistrate having civil jurisdiction, upon which no actions or proceedings to enforce or collect the same shall have been prosecuted to final judgment with…

2A:14-2a Statute of limitations for action at law resulting from certain sexual crimes against a minor. 2. a. (1) Every action at law for an injury resulting from the commission of sexual assault, any other crime of a sexual nature, a prohibited sexual act as defined in section 2…

2A:14-2b Commencement of actions regardless of statute of limitations. 9. a. Notwithstanding the statute of limitations provisions of N.J.S.2A:14-2, section 2 of P.L.2019, c.120 (C.2A:14-2a), section 1 of P.L.1964, c.214 (C.2A:14-2.1), or any other statute, an action at law for a…

2A:14-2c Effective date. 10. The provisions of this amendatory and supplementary act, P.L.2019, c.120 (C.2A:14-2a et al.), shall take effect on December 1, 2019. These provisions shall be inapplicable to any civil action governed solely by the statute of limitations of another ju…

2A:14-3. 1 year; libel or slander Every action at law for libel or slander shall be commenced within 1 year next after the publication of the alleged libel or slander. L.1951 (1st SS), c.344.

2A:14-30. 30 years' possession of real estate, except woodlands or uncultivated tracts, and 60 years' possession of woodlands or uncultivated tracts however commenced or continued Thirty years' actual possession of any real estate excepting woodlands or uncultivated tracts, and 6…

2A:14-31. 30 years' actual possession of any real estate under claim or color of title Thirty years' actual possession of any real estate, uninterruptedly continued by occupancy, descent, conveyance or otherwise, wherever such possession commenced or is founded upon a proprietary…

2A:14-32 Disabilities affecting right to enforce right or title to real estate. 2A:14-32. If any person having a right or title to real estate is under the age of 18, or has been adjudicated incapacitated, or is outside the United States for purposes other than a military tour of…

2A:14-33. Prescriptive right to maintain wires or cables Whenever any wire or cable used for any telegraph, telephone, electric light, or other wire or cable for electric purposes, is or shall be attached to, or does or shall extend upon or over any building or land, no lapse of …

2A:14-34. Immateriality of descent cast If the disseizor of an interest in real estate, having no right or title thereto, shall hereafter die seized of such interest, the descent of the right or title acquired by the disseizin to the heir of the disseizor shall not take away the …

2A:14-4. Actions on lease, specialty, recognizance or award; 16 years; effect of payments; action on instrument under seal brought by merchant or financial institution; 6 years Every action at law for rent or arrears of rent, founded upon a lease under seal, every action at law u…

2A:14-5. 20 years; judgments A judgment in any court of record in this state may be revived by proper proceedings or an action at law may be commenced thereon within 20 years next after the date thereof, but not thereafter. An action may be commenced on a judgment obtained in any…

2A:14-6. 20 years; right of entry into real estate Every person having any right or title of entry into real estate shall make such entry within 20 years next after the accrual of such right or title of entry, or be barred therefrom thereafter. L.1951 (1st SS), c.344.

2A:14-7. 20 years; real actions Every action at law for real estate shall be commenced within 20 years next after the right or title thereto, or cause of such action shall have accrued. L.1951 (1st SS), c.344.

2A:14-8. 20 years; actions by state for real estate or rents No person or body politic or corporate shall be sued or impleaded by the state of New Jersey for any real estate, or for any rents, revenues, issues or profits thereof, except within 20 years next after the right or tit…

2A:14-9. 2 months; actions against sheriffs by claimants of personal property attached or levied upon under execution Where a person other than a defendant in attachment or execution lays claim to personal property attached, levied upon, taken or sold by a sheriff or other office…

2A:15-1 Actions in person or by attorney. 2A:15-1. Every person who has reached the age of majority pursuant to section 3 of P.L.1972, c.81 (C.9:17B-3) and has the mental capacity may prosecute or defend any action in any court, in person or through another duly admitted to the p…

2A:15-10. Discharge of lis pendens of record when action not prosecuted If plaintiff in an action as to which a notice of lis pendens has been filed as herein required fails to prosecute the same diligently, the court wherein the action is pending may, for such cause or for other…

2A:15-11. Notice of lis pendens 2A:15-11. Notice of lis pendens. No notice of lis pendens shall be effective after five years from the date of its filing. L.1951 (1st SS), c.344; amended 1995,c.244,s.16.

2A:15-12. Record and index of notices; access to Except as provided by section 2A:15-9 of this title, the county clerk or register of deeds and mortgages, with whom a notice of lis pendens is filed, shall forthwith record the same, with the time of the filing thereof, in a proper…

2A:15-13. Fee for recording notice as taxable costs The fee for recording a notice of lis pendens shall be taxable as a part of the costs in the action. L.1951 (1st SS), c.344.

2A:15-14. Marginal notation in record of notice of judgment for defendant; appeal; further lis pendens Whenever a final judgment is made in favor of the defendant or defendants in any action, notice of the pendency of which has been filed in the office of any county clerk or regi…

2A:15-15. Order discharging real estate from claim If, in an action for the enforcement against real estate of a claim for the payment of money, except for the foreclosure of a mortgage, as to which a notice of lis pendens has been filed, the defendant therein gives such sufficie…

2A:15-16. Record of discharge of real estate from claim Upon the filing of a copy of the order mentioned in section 2A:15-15 of this title, certified under the seal of the court out of which it issued, with the county clerk or register of deeds with whom the notice of lis pendens…

2A:15-17. Discharge of lis pendens when judgment is paid, satisfied or action settled or abandoned When a judgment made in an action, of the pendency of which notice has been filed as herein provided, is paid, satisfied or performed, or the action has been settled by the parties …

2A:15-18. Action by taxpayer on failure of county or municipality to sue If the board of chosen freeholders of a county or the governing body of a municipality fails to prosecute a claim or demand of the county or municipality, any court in which an action on such claim or demand…

2A:15-19. Intervention by taxpayer in action by or against county or municipality When, in an action by or against a county or municipality, if in the opinion of the court the interests of the county or municipality would be promoted thereby, the court may, upon terms, allow a ta…

2A:15-2. Beneficiary in contract suing or defending A person for whose benefit a contract is made, either simple or sealed, may sue thereon in any court and may use such contract as a matter of defense in an action against him although the consideration of the contract did not mo…

2A:15-3 Actions which survive; torts to decedent; funeral and burial expenses; statute of limitations. 2A:15-3. a. (1) Executors, administrators, and administrators ad prosequendum may have an action for any trespass done to the person or property, real or personal, of their test…

2A:15-30.1 Service of process on business entity; substituted service. 1. a. If a business entity, foreign or domestic, is required to register with a State official or agency to transact business in this State and is required to register an address or an agent in this State for …

2A:15-4. Actions which survive; torts committed by decedent Where any testator or intestate shall, in his lifetime, have taken or carried away or converted to his use, the goods or chattels of any person, or shall, in his lifetime, have committed any trespass to the person or pro…

2A:15-41. Capias; grounds in action founded upon tort A capias ad respondendum shall issue in an action founded upon a tort only when the action is founded upon (a) an outrageous battery or a mayhem, (b) a claim of damages for the misconduct or neglect of a public officer or (c) …