N.J. Stat. § 2A:55-4
Current through L. 2024, c. 80.
If, before action is brought on a bond, which has a condition or defeasance to make void the same on payment of a less sum, at a day or place certain, the obligor, his heirs, executors or administrators have paid to the obligee, his executors, administrators or assigns, the principal and interest due by the condition or defeasance of such bond, though such payment was not made strictly according to the condition or defeasance, it may be pleaded in bar, and shall be as effectual a bar to such action as if the money had been paid at the day and place, according to the condition or defeasance, and had been so pleaded.
N.J.S. § 2A:55-4