2A:19-13 - Assignee's general powers as successor to assignor - New Jersey Statutes

2A:19-13.  Assignee's general powers as successor to assignor
    Every assignee shall have as full power and authority to dispose of all of the assignor's property, except as otherwise may be provided, as the assignor had at the time of the general assignment.  He may sue for and recover in his own name everything belonging or appertaining to the estate. He may compromise, settle and compound all claims, disputes and litigations of the assignor, refer the same to arbitration, agree with any person concerning the same, redeem all mortgages and conditional contracts, and generally act as and do whatsoever the assignor might have lawfully done in the premises.
 
L.1951 (1st SS), c.344.