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2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes
Title 2A - Administration of Civil and Criminal Justice
Section 2A:15-4 - Actions which survive; torts committed by decedent
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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 property, real or personal, of any person, such person, his executors or administrators, shall have and may maintain the same action against the executors or administrators of such testator or intestate as he or they might have had or maintained against the testator or intestate, and shall have the like remedy and process for the damages recovered in such action as are now had and allowed in other actions against executors or administrators.
L.1951 (1st SS), c.344.
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