N.J. Stat. tit. 2A, ch. 36

in effect

N.J. Stat. § 2A:36-1 What constitutes escape

Any person committed to a county jail or other place of detention upon process issued in a civil action, shall be actually detained therein until lawfully discharged. If, at any time, the officer to whom such process was issued permits any person committed to his custody thereunder to go or to be at large out of the jail or other place of detention, except by virtue of a writ of habeas corpus or court order, such going or being at large shall be deemed to be an escape. L.1951 (1st SS), c.344.

N.J. Stat. § 2A:36-2 Safe-keeping of persons taken under body execution

Every officer to whom a body execution has been issued and who shall have taken the person directed to be taken shall safely keep such person in jail, or other place of detention, without bail, except as authorized by law, until the requirements of such execution shall be satisfied. L.1951 (1st SS), c.344.

N.J. Stat. § 2A:36-3 Liability for escape of person committed under body execution

If a sheriff or other officer in authority permits or allows any person committed to go out of jail or other place of detention or be at large by bail or otherwise, except as authorized by law, without the consent of the execution creditor, he shall be liable to the execution creditor for the amount required to be paid by said execution to satisfy the same and for which such person has been committed, recoverable by the execution creditor from the sheriff or other officer, with costs. L.1951 (1st SS), c.344.

N.J. Stat. § 2A:36-4 Defense of retaking on fresh pursuit in action of escape

In an action for an escape against a sheriff or other officer no retaking on fresh pursuit shall be a defense unless the sheriff, or other officer shall show that the person for whose escape the action is brought escaped without his consent or knowledge. L.1951 (1st SS), c.344.

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