A
copy of any will or of the record of any will of a decedent not resident in
this State at his death, admitted to probate in any state of the United States
or other jurisdiction or country, and of the certificate or judgment for
probate, and if title to real estate of the decedent depends on the conveyance
by an executor, administrator with the will annexed, substituted administrator
with the will annexed, trustee or substituted trustee, of the record of the
grant of letters testamentary thereon, or of administration, or substitutionary
administration, with the will annexed, or of a copy of the letters, attested
and certified pursuant to the rules of the Supreme Court or, if it be a record
of any state of the United States, exemplified and authenticated according to
the act of Congress, heretofore or hereafter filed and recorded in the office
of the surrogate of any county in this State, shall have the same force and
effect in respect to all real estate whereof the testator died seized, as if
the will had been admitted to probate and the letters aforesaid had been issued
in this State, provided it appears either from the deposition in the record or
the attestation clause, or by a deposition taken under a commission or
otherwise, that the will is valid under the laws of this State.
All
conveyances of the real estate heretofore or hereafter made by any executor,
administrator with the will annexed, substituted administrator with the will
annexed, trustee, substituted trustee, or the survivor or survivors of them, or
by any devisee or persons claiming under the devisee shall be as valid as if
the will had been admitted to probate and letters aforesaid had been issued in
this State.
Certified copies of the will, deposition, judgment for probate and
letters, or of the record thereof, shall be received in evidence in all the
courts of this State.
L.1981, c. 405, s. 3B:3-27, eff. May 1, 1982.
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