N.J. Stat. tit. 46, ch. 6

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N.J. Stat. § 46:6-1 Transfers, leases, assurances and conveyances pursuant to letters of agency, powers of attorney or other powers or authorities

All deeds, grants, sales, leases, assurances, or other conveyances whatsoever, heretofore made by virtue of letters of agency, powers of attorney, or other powers or authorities whatsoever, and entered on the public books of records of the province of New Jersey or the public books of records of the eastern or western divisions thereof, prior to July fourth, one thousand seven hundred and seventy-six, whereby any real estate whatsoever within this state or province were granted, sold, conveyed, assured, released, or transferred to any person pursuant to such powers and authorities whatsoever, shall be, and are hereby declared as good, valid and sufficient title in law, to all intents, constructions and purposes whatsoever, unto the grantees therein, and to their heirs and assigns, as if the constituent or constituents had then and there sold and conveyed such real estate, and had executed deeds according to the true intent and meaning of such grants, deeds or conveyances, and such grants, deeds or conveyances shall be of force against, conclude and bind all and every the constituents, employers, grantors of such powers and authorities, and their and all and every of their heirs, and all and every other person or persons claiming or to claim estate from or under them, or any of them, severally and respectively and when any real estate heretofore has been or hereafter shall be sold, conveyed or disposed of by virtue of any such powers or authorities as aforesaid, such powers or authorities having been first acknowledged or proved and certified and entered upon the public records in the books appropriate therefor in the proper record offices of this state, the grants and conveyances, deeds and instruments made pursuant to the powers thereby granted shall be as good, valid and sufficient titles against all and every the constituents, employers and grantors of such powers and authorities, against all claiming or to claim estate under them severally and respectively as aforesaid, as if the constituent or constituents had then and there sold and conveyed the same real estate.

N.J. Stat. § 46:6-2 Informalities or irregularities in conveyances executed by agent under power

Whenever an attorney, authorized to execute and deliver conveyances of real estate has failed, prior to March twenty-third, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-three, to convey the title of his principal thereto as he was authorized to convey the same, by reason of any informality or irregularity in the recitals or subject matter contained in the deed or conveyance, or by reason of any informality or irregularity in the execution thereof, although it was the intention of such attorney to convey a good title to the same, such informality or irregularity shall not affect the title intended to be so conveyed, but such deed or conveyance shall convey the title of the principal in and to such real estate as effectually as though such informality or irregularity did not exist, and as though the principal had himself executed such deed or conveyance.

N.J. Stat. § 46:6-3 Conveyances under powers of attorney not recorded

Whenever any deed to or conveyance of real estate in this state shall purport to have been executed by virtue of any letter of attorney, and such deed or conveyance shall have been properly acknowledged and recorded, the recital of the letter of attorney in such deed or conveyance shall be prima facie proof of the existence thereof, notwithstanding the same may not be recorded, but only when such deed or conveyance shall have been recorded at least ten years, and the person claiming thereunder shall take and subscribe an oath that he has seen such letter of attorney so recited, which oath shall be recorded in the office of the county recording officer of the county wherein such real estate is situate, in the book therein provided for the recording of powers of attorney.

N.J. Stat. § 46:6-6 Letters of attorney considered unrevoked until revoked by recorded instrument or death of principal

All letters of attorney for any sale, conveyance, assurance, lease, acquittance or release hereafter duly executed and recorded in accordance with the provisions of section 46:16-1 of the Revised Statutes shall be considered as unrevoked and as remaining in full force and effect in accordance with the terms thereof unless and until the letters of attorney are revoked by the principal by an instrument duly executed and recorded in accordance with the provisions of section 46:16-2 of the Revised Statutes, except that nothing herein contained shall continue in effect any letters of attorney revoked by the death of the principal. L.1950, c. 306, p. 1041, s. 1, eff. July 6, 1950.

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