PART IV -- RULES
GOVERNING CIVIL PRACTICE IN THE SUPERIOR COURT, TAX COURT AND
SURROGATE'S COURTS
- 4:1. Scope of Rules
- 4:2. Form; Commencement of Action
- 4:3. Divisions; Venue; Transfer of Actions
- 4:4. Process
- 4:5. General Rules of Pleading
- 4:5A-1. Tracks Defined
- 4:5B. Case Management; Conferences
- 4:6. Defenses and Objections: When and How Presented; By Pleading or Motion; Motion for Judgment on Pleadings
- 4:7. Counterclaim and Cross-Claim
- 4:8. Third Party Practice
- 4:9. Amended and Supplemental Pleadings
- 4:10. Pretrial Discovery
- 4:11. Depositions Before Action or Pending Appeal or for Use in Other Jurisdictions
- 4:12. Persons Before Whom Depositions May Be Taken; Authority
- 4:13. Stipulations Regarding Discovery Procedure
- 4:14. Depositions Upon Oral Examination
- 4:15. Depositions Upon Written Questions
- 4:16. Use of Depositions; Objections; Effect; Errors and Irregularities
- 4:17. Interrogatories to Parties
- 4:18. Discovery and Inspection of Documents and Property; Copies of Documents
- 4:19. Physical and Mental Examination of Persons
- 4:20. Impartial Medical Examinations and Expert Testimony [Deleted]
- 4:21. Medical Malpractice Litigation [Deleted]
- 4:21A. Arbitration of Certain Personal Injury Actions
- 4:22. Requests for Admissions
- 4:23. Failure to Make Discovery; Sanctions
- 4:24. Time for Completion of Discovery and Other Pretrial Proceedings
- 4:25. Pretrial Conferences
- 4:26. Parties Plaintiff and Defendant
- 4:27. Joinder of Claims and Remedies
- 4:28. Joinder of Parties
- 4:29. Joinder of Multiple Parties
- 4:30. Misjoinder and Non-joinder of Parties
- 4:30A. Entire Controversy Doctrine
- 4:31. Interpleader
- 4:32. Class Actions
- 4:33. Intervention
- 4:34. Substitution of Parties
- 4:35. Trial by Jury or by the Court
- 4:36. Assignment for Trial in the Superior Court
- 4:37. Dismissal of Actions
- 4:38. Consolidation; Separate Trials
- 4:38A. Centralized Management of Mass Torts
- 4:39. Verdicts
- 4:40. Motion for Judgment
- 4:41. References
- 4:42. Judgment; Orders; Damages; Costs
- 4:43. Default
- 4:44. Proceedings to Approve Settlements
- 4:44A. Proceedings to Approve Transfer Rights of Structured Settlement Payment Rights
- 4:45. Judgment by Confession
- 4:46. Summary Judgment
- 4:47. Entry of Judgment
- 4:48. Satisfaction or Cancellation of Judgment
- 4:48A. Judgments for Minors and Incompetents
- 4:49. New Trials; Amendment of Judgments
- 4:50. Relief From Judgment or Order
- 4:51. Ne Exeat; Capias
- 4:52. Injunctions
- 4:53. Receivers and Liquidating Trustees
- 4:54. Assignments for Benefit of Creditors
- 4:55. Discharge of Insolvent Debtors
- 4:56. Action to Approve a Plan of Bank Reorganization
- 4:57. Deposit in Court
- 4:58. Offer of Judgment
- 4:59. Process to Enforce Judgments
- 4:60. Attachment and Sequestration
- 4:61. Replevin
- 4:62. Quiet Title
- 4:63. Waste; Partition; Account; Dower; Curtesy
- 4:63A. Motion and Hearing on Filing of Notice of Lis Pendens
- 4:64. Foreclosure of Mortgages, Condominium Association Liens and Tax Sale Certificates
- 4:65. Sales of Property; In General
- 4:66. Sale or Mortgage of Infant's and Incompetent's Lands [Redesignated as R. 4:94]
- 4:67. Summary Actions
- 4:68. Actions for Escheat Under N.J.S. 2A:37–11 to 28, Inclusive [Deleted]
- 4:69. Actions in Lieu of Prerogative Writs
- 4:70. Summary Proceedings for Collection of Statutory Penalties
- 4:71. Appeals From Local Agencies
- 4:72. Actions for Change of Name
- 4:73. Condemnation; Appeals From Assessments
- 4:74. Special Proceedings in the Superior Court, Law Division
- 4:80. Application to Surrogate's Court for Probate or Administration
- 4:81. Application to Surrogate's Court for Guardianship of Minor
- 4:82. Matters in Which the Surrogate's Court May Not Act
- 4:83. Probate Actions in the Superior Court, Chancery Division, Probate Part: General Provisions
- 4:84. Complaints in Cases in Which Surrogate's Court Not Able to Act
- 4:85. Review by Superior Court of Actions by Surrogate's Court: General Provisions
- 4:86. Action for Guardianship of an Incompetent or for the Appointment of a Conservator
- 4:87. Actions for the Settlement of Accounts
- 4:88. Commissions and Attorney's Fee
- 4:89. Distribution
- 4:90. Sale of Property Subject to Escheat to Pay Debts
- 4:91. Insolvent Estates
- 4:92. Proceedings to Apply Toward Decedent's Debts Moneys Received on Foreclosure and Partition Sales
- 4:93. Declaration of Death
- 4:94. Sale or Mortgage of Minor's and Incompetent's Lands
- 4:95. Miscellaneous Actions
- 4:96. Miscellaneous
- 4:100. Civil Docket
- 4:101. Docketing of Judgments; Recording of Transcript and Other Documents