New Jersey Acts Saved from Repeal ACTS SAVED 2 § 74-2(1)

12. That if tenant for term of life, or in dower, or by the curtesy, be impleaded, and judgment given against him or her for the lands or tenements, then the person or persons to whom the reversion or remainder of the same belongs at the time of such judgment, his, her or their heirs or successors, may have writ of error, if error be found in the record of such judgment, as well in the lifetime of the said tenant as after his or her death; and if such judgment be reversed, the tenant, if living, shall be restored to his or her possession of the said lands or tenements, and the party prosecuting such writ of error to the arrearages of rent for the same; and if such tenant be dead at the time of the judgment given on such writ of error, then restitution of the said lands or tenements shall be made to the party prosecuting said writ, together with the arrearages of rent; provided, always, that if the party prosecuting the said writ of error allege that the judgment first obtained against such tenant was by covin or assent, then restitution shall be made to the party prosecuting the said writ, with arrearages, although the said tenant be living; but in such case the said tenant may have a scire facias against the party plaintiff in error, if he will deny and traverse the covin or assent aforesaid, and not otherwise.