N.J. Stat. tit. 2A, ch. 83

in effect

N.J. Stat. § 2A:83-1 Value of real estate

In any action or proceeding for the acquisition or sale of land, or any interest or interests therein, or on review of the assessment for taxes of any real property, or in any action or proceeding in the Tax Court, any person offered as a witness in any such action or proceeding shall be competent to testify as to sales of comparable land, including any improvements thereon, contiguous or adjacent to the land in question, or in the vicinity or locality thereof, or otherwise comparable, from information or knowledge of such sales, obtained from the owner, seller, purchaser, lessee or occupant of such comparable land, or from information obtained from the broker or brokers or attorney or attorneys who negotiated or who are familiar with or cognizant of such sales, which testimony when so offered, shall be competent and admissible evidence in any such action or proceeding. In any action or proceeding in the Tax Court, the realty transfer fee, if any, paid upon the recording of any deed or other instrument of conveyance as well as the consideration or sales price stated therein or in the affidavit of consideration attached to and filed with any such deed or instrument shall be admitted as prima facie evidence of the true consideration or sales price of the said property. This section shall not be construed to apply to any action or proceeding instituted by any individual or private corporation authorized to take property for public use where compensation must first be made to the owner thereof. L.1951 (1st SS), c.344; amended by L.1979, c. 114, s. 14, eff. July 1, 1979.

N.J. Stat. § 2A:83-4 Finding of presumed death under federal statute as presumptive evidence

A written finding of presumed death, made by the secretary of war, the secretary of the navy, the United States maritime war emergency board, or other officer or employee of the United States authorized to make such finding, pursuant to the federal missing persons act, as now or hereafter amended, or a duly certified copy of such finding, shall be received in any court, office or other place in this state as presumptive evidence of the death of the person therein found to be dead, and the date, circumstances and place of his disappearance. L.1951 (1st SS), c.344

N.J. Stat. § 2A:83-5 Official record or report as evidence that person is missing, interned, etc.

An official written report or record, or duly certified copy thereof, that a person is missing, missing in action, interned in a neutral country, or beleagured, besieged or captured by an enemy, or is dead, or is alive, made by such board or by any officer or employee of the United States authorized by the federal act referred to in this article or by any other law of the United States to make same, shall be received in any court, office or other place in this state as presumptive evidence that such person is missing, missing in action, interned in a neutral country, or beleagured, besieged or captured by an enemy, or is dead, or is alive, as the case may be. L.1951 (1st SS), c.344.

N.J. Stat. § 2A:83-6 Signature and certification deemed prima facie evidence

For the purposes of this article, any finding, report or record, or duly certified copy thereof, purporting to have been signed by such board, or by such an officer or employee of the United States, as is described in this article, shall prima facie be deemed to have been signed and issued by such an officer or employee pursuant to law, and the person signing same shall prima facie be deemed to have acted within the scope of his authority. If a copy purports to have been certified by a person authorized by law to certify the same, such certified copy shall be prima facie evidence of his authority so to certify. L.1951 (1st SS), c.344.

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