2016 New Jersey Revised Statutes
Title 2a - Administration Of Civil And Criminal Justice
Section 2A:39-4 - Unlawful Detainer Defined

NJ Rev Stat § 2A:39-4 (2016) What's This?

2A:39-4. Unlawful detainer defined
If any tenant or other person in possession of any real property under a tenant, shall willfully and without force, hold over any such real property after demand and notice in writing given for the delivery of the possession thereof by a lessor or the person to whom the remainder or reversion of such real estate shall belong, such tenant or other person, so holding over, shall be guilty of an unlawful detainer.

L.1951 (1st SS), c.344.


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