N.J. Stat. tit. 2A, ch. 40

in effect

N.J. Stat. § 2A:40-1 Gaming transactions unlawful

All wagers, bets or stakes made to depend upon any race or game, or upon any gaming by lot or chance, or upon any lot, chance, casualty or unknown or contingent event, shall be unlawful. L.1951 (1st SS), c.344.

N.J. Stat. § 2A:40-2 Liability of stakeholder or person receiving wager

Whoever pays, delivers or deposits any money, property or thing in action upon the event of any wager or bet prohibited by this chapter or by any law of this state, may sue for and recover the same of the winner, or person to whom the same shall be paid or delivered, or of the stakeholder or other person in whose hands the same shall be deposited, or any part thereof, whether or not the same shall have been delivered or paid over by such depositary or stakeholder and whether or not any such wager or bet be lost. L.1951 (1st SS), c.344.

N.J. Stat. § 2A:40-3 Gaming transactions, obligations and securities void

All promises, agreements, notes, bills, bonds, contracts, judgments, mortgages, leases or other securities or conveyances which shall be made, given, entered into or executed by any person, the whole or part of the consideration of which is for any money, property or thing in action whatsoever laid, won or bet in violation of section 2A:40-1 of this title, or for reimbursing or repaying any money knowingly lent or advanced to help or facilitate such violation, shall be utterly void and of no effect. L.1951 (1st SS), c.344.

N.J. Stat. § 2A:40-4 Transfer of property on gaming consideration to vest title in heirs or representatives of transferor

If any sale, conveyance, lease or mortgage of either real or personal estate as is made void by section 2A:40-3 of this title shall be made, the same shall inure to the use of the heirs or legal representatives of the vendor, lessor or mortgagor, and shall vest the whole estate and interest so attempted to be transferred in such property, to all intents and purposes, in such heirs or legal representatives in the same manner as though the vendor, bargainor, lessor or mortgagor had died intestate. All conveyances or other devices made to evade this section shall be utterly void. L.1951 (1st SS), c.344.

N.J. Stat. § 2A:40-5 Action by loser to recover money or property lost at gaming, with costs; limitation

If any person shall lose any money, goods, chattels or other valuable thing, in violation of section 2A:40-1 of this title, and shall pay or deliver the same or any part thereof to the winner, or to any person to his use, or to a stakeholder, such person may sue for and recover such money, or the value of such goods, chattels, or other valuable thing, from such winner, or from such depositary, or from such stakeholder, whether the same has been delivered or paid over by such stakeholder or not, in a civil action provided such action is brought within 6 calendar months after payment or delivery. L.1951 (1st SS), c.344.

N.J. Stat. § 2A:40-6 Informer action to recover money or property lost at gaming; limitation; costs

If the person who shall lose and pay such money, or lose and deliver such thing or things as aforesaid, shall not, within the time aforesaid, without collusion, sue for the money or other thing or things so lost and paid, or delivered, any other person may sue for and recover the same, with costs of suit, from such winner, depositary or stakeholder as aforesaid; the one moiety thereof to the use of the person suing for the same, and the other moiety to the use of the state; provided the action is instituted within 6 calendar months from and after the expiration of the time limited in section 2A:40-5 of this title for the loser to sue for the same. L.1951 (1st SS), c.344.

N.J. Stat. § 2A:40-7 Discovery of money or property lost at gaming

Every person who, under this chapter, shall or may be liable to be sued for moneys or other things so won, paid or deposited, as aforesaid, shall make discovery pursuant to an order of a court of competent jurisdiction either before or after action is commenced, concerning the money or other things so won, paid or deposited. L.1951 (1st SS), c.344.

N.J. Stat. § 2A:40-8 Penalty for erecting, etc., lottery; action by common informer; disposition of penalty; jurors and witnesses

No person shall, within this state, publicly or privately, erect, set up, open, make or draw any lottery prohibited by the laws of this state; and any person so doing shall forfeit, for each such offense, a penalty of $2,000, to be recovered with costs in a civil action by any person who shall sue for the same. Of each and every penalty recovered under this section there may be appropriated a portion, which shall not exceed 1% of such penalty, to be assessed by the jury hearing the cause, or by the court if the cause be determined without a jury, to the informer, and the residue of such penalty not so appropriated to the informer shall be appropriated to the use of the county in which the action for the recovery thereof shall have been prosecuted. L.1951 (1st SS), c.344.

N.J. Stat. § 2A:40-9 Conveyances or transfers of property in pursuance of lottery void

Every conveyance or other transfer of any property, real or personal, made in pursuance of any lottery prohibited by the laws of this state, shall be void and of no effect. L.1951 (1st SS), c.344.

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