New Jersey § 2A:16-8 Offset against judgment of taxes, etc., due municipality

New Jersey Statutes

§ 2A:16-8 — Offset against judgment of taxes, etc., due municipality

New Jersey § 2A:16-8

Title 2AADMINISTRATION OF CIVIL AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE

This text of New Jersey § 2A:16-8 (Offset against judgment of taxes, etc., due municipality) is published on Counsel Stack Legal Research, covering New Jersey primary law. Counsel Stack provides free access to over 12 million legal documents including statutes, case law, regulations, and constitutions.

Bluebook

N.J. Stat. Ann. § 2A:16-8 (2026).

Text

Whenever any judgment is recovered in an action in any court of competent jurisdiction in this state, against any municipality by any person who is, at the time of the recovery of the judgment, indebted to such municipality upon any indebtedness of a public nature, including taxes, assessments or water rates which constitute an indebtedness, or who shall become so indebted before the satisfaction of the judgment, such municipality may apply to the court in the action for an order to reduce or extinguish the judgment, and any execution issued thereon, by offsetting and crediting against the same any such indebtedness.
L.1951 (1st SS), c.344.

Free access — add to your briefcase to read the full text and ask questions with AI

Whenever any judgment is recovered in an action in any court of competent jurisdiction in this state, against any municipality by any person who is, at the time of the recovery of the judgment, indebted to such municipality upon any indebtedness of a public nature, including taxes, assessments or water rates which constitute an indebtedness, or who shall become so indebted before the satisfaction of the judgment, such municipality may apply to the court in the action for an order to reduce or extinguish the judgment, and any execution issued thereon, by offsetting and crediting against the same any such indebtedness.
L.1951 (1st SS), c.344.