2A:55-1 - Liability of any of joint debtors served;  judgment and execution;   special judgment as against those served by publication

2A:55-1.  Liability of any of joint debtors served;  judgment and execution;   special judgment as against those served by publication
    Where persons are jointly indebted to any other person upon any joint contract, obligation or matter, and in an action thereon by the creditor any of  such joint debtors shall be served with process, those served shall answer to  the plaintiff, and if judgment shall pass for the plaintiff, he shall have his  judgment and execution against those served.  The judgment and execution shall  be as effective, as to the joint debtor or debtors served, as if all of them  had been served and the judgment had been entered against all of them.

    Judgment in the action may be entered, also, against the other joint debtor  or debtors if he or they are named in the process and served by publication or  otherwise, as an absent defendant or defendants, in accordance with the  practice of the superior court in cases in which the action affects specific  property within the jurisdiction of the court;  but if such other debtor or  debtors do not appear in the action, said judgment shall be special as to them,  to be made as to them only of their interest in real and personal property  within the state jointly owned by all such joint debtors.
 
L.1951 (1st SS), c.344.