New Jersey Statutes Appendix - Former Title 3A Administration of Estates Decedents and Others 3A § 3-33

Laws 1948, c. 364, p. 1467, § 18 of an act entitled “An Act concerning the surrogates, revising parts of the statutes, and repealing certain statutes” (C. 2:1C-18), saved from repeal. [This act provides that a copy of the will of any resident of this state who died prior to January 1, 1895, which has not been probated (or the probate thereof denied) in this state, but which has been probated in another state in the United States may be filed in the surrogate's office of any county for the purpose of making title to real estate, provided it is duly exemplified and it appears from the attestation clause or the decree of probate or the proof that the will was executed as required by the laws of this state.]