New Jersey Statutes Appendix - Former Title 3A Administration of Estates Decedents and Others 3A § 24-48

In the event real estate descended or devised to any heir or devisee has been bona fide aliened prior to the commencement of the action, it shall not be liable for such debt or for any judgment obtained in an action against him. In such an event if the debt be found due in an action against him, the judgment against him shall be general for the full amount thereof, unless he shall admit in the action the descent or devise of the real estate to him, specifically describing the same, in which case the judgment shall be general for the amount so found due, but only to the value of the real estate descended or devised, and aliened.