New Jersey Statutes Appendix - Former Title 3A Administration of Estates Decedents and Others 3A § 40-2

If an estate, money or property has been received, recovered or taken into possession by any person by reason of a declaration of death under the provisions of this chapter and in any action or proceeding it is thereafter proved that the person declared dead was alive at the time of such receipt, recovery or taking into possession, such estate, money or property, or its reasonable value at that time, shall, except as otherwise provided by law, be restored to the person deprived thereof by reason of the declaration, or to his heirs, devisees, executors, administrators or other persons entitled thereto. He or they may also demand and recover the income, rents and profits thereon during the time he was or they were deprived thereof.