2016 New Jersey Revised Statutes
Title 2a - Administration Of Civil And Criminal Justice
Section 2A:65-6 - Tenant's Liability For Waste Committed Or Suffered By Him After Leasing Or Granting His Estate To Another
2A:65-6. Tenant's liability for waste committed or suffered by him after leasing or granting his estate to another
When any tenant for a term, including a life tenant, in property demised to or held by him, has or shall lease or grant his estate in the property to any person, and shall thereafter continue to occupy such property, or to take the profits thereof, and shall commit or suffer waste and destruction thereof, the owner, remainderman or reversioner of such property may maintain a civil action against such tenant and recover from him the property wasted or its money value and treble damages, provided such tenant was liable for waste before he leased or granted his estate, but not otherwise.
L.1951 (1st SS), c.344
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