{"id":354,"date":"2011-05-12T11:07:53","date_gmt":"2011-05-12T15:07:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/jsinger\/?p=354"},"modified":"2011-06-02T10:49:46","modified_gmt":"2011-06-02T14:49:46","slug":"another-state-abolishes-transfer-fee-obligations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jsinger\/2011\/05\/12\/another-state-abolishes-transfer-fee-obligations\/","title":{"rendered":"Another state abolishes transfer fee obligations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The New Jersey legislature joined an increasing number of states that have passed statutes prohibiting enforcement of transfer fee obligations. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.njleg.state.nj.us\/2010\/Bills\/PL10\/102_.PDF\">2010 N.J. Laws 102<\/a>, codified at \u00a0N.J. Stat. 46:3-28 to -33. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.drinkerbiddle.com\/files\/Publication\/54b1d2b7-69c9-4c31-a09b-18a65784c2c0\/Presentation\/PublicationAttachment\/1a695c43-009a-4433-9f4c-211eb82fec44\/Woodruff%204%2025%2011.pdf\">read article <\/a>The act applies prospectively only. Transfer fee obligations are duties to pay moneys to a prior seller of the land every time it is sold. Such fees restrain alienation of land and were held to constitute illegal vestiges of feudalism in the mid-nineteenth century. See DePeyster v. Michael, 6 N.Y. 467 (1852).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New Jersey legislature joined an increasing number of states that have passed statutes prohibiting enforcement of transfer fee obligations. 2010 N.J. Laws 102, codified at \u00a0N.J. Stat. 46:3-28 to -33. read article The act applies prospectively only. Transfer fee obligations are duties to pay moneys to a prior seller of the land every time [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2199,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[18735,18736],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-estates-future-interests","category-real-estate-transactions"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5SHi7-5I","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jsinger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jsinger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jsinger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jsinger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2199"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jsinger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=354"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jsinger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":367,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jsinger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354\/revisions\/367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jsinger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jsinger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jsinger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}