Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 August 1878 — Legal Advertising in Co-Operative Newspapers. [ARTICLE]

Legal Advertising in Co-Operative Newspapers.

An important decision, touching the legality of advertising in newspapers printed on the co-operative plan, has been rendered by the New Jersey courts. A mortgage sale was advertised in a newspaper printed on this plan, and the property was sold as advertised. The owner of the property protested against the proceeding, on the ground that the advertisement thereof was not legal, because the newspaper printing it was a so-called “patent inside.” A petition to set aside the sale was accordingly filed in chancery. The petition fully and squarely raised the issue as to whether a newspaper using a “patent outside,” printed outside the State, was a newspaper printed and published in the State, in which land sales might be legally advertised. The question was fully argued before the Vice-Chancellor, at Newark, N. J., and a decision rendered “that such an advertisement was legal and sufficient, and was both a substantial and literal compliance with the statutory requirement;” and the motion to set aside the sale was denied and petition dismissed.