The rights of action formerly existing to recover sums of money as damage for the alienation of affections, criminal conversation, seduction or breach of contract to marry are abolished from and after June 27, 1935.
N.J. Stat. Ann. § 2A:23-1
Rights of action abolished
Applied in 18 court decisions — leading case Nelson v. Jacobsen (1983)
Most recently applied in 92 Mass. App. Ct. 731 - Shea v. Cameron (February 2018)
L.1951 (1st SS), c.344.
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