2A:62-20 - Persons entitled to maintain action - New Jersey Statutes

2A:62-20.  Persons entitled to maintain action
    A person in the peaceable possession of lands in this state, claiming ownership thereof in fee simple under a deed therefor, or by or under descent or devise from the grantee thereof, which deed contains no covenants, conditions or agreements for the forfeiture and payment of money or penalties on breach thereof, or restrictions therein, may, when it is claimed or asserted  by anyone that such lands are subject to covenants, conditions or agreements  for the forfeiture and payment of money or penalties on breach thereof, or  restrictions, contained in earlier deeds in the chain of title, and no action  is pending to enforce or test the existence or validity of such covenants,  conditions, agreements or restrictions, maintain an action in the superior  court to settle the existence and validity thereof, and to clear up all doubts  and disputes concerning the same.
 
L.1951 (1st SS), c.344.