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Code · New Jersey · Title 2A — Administration of Civil and Criminal Justice · Chapter 20

2A:20-1. Debtors in actual confinement

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Any person, in actual confinement for debt or damages in any jail of this State, who is willing to deliver up to his creditor or creditors all his estate, both real and personal, toward their payment, may bring an action, in a summary manner, for his discharge under this chapter, in the Superior Court.
L.1951 (1st SS), c.344; amended 1991,c.91,s.75.
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