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NY Real Prop Actions L § 1105 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RPA - Real Property Actions and Proceedings Article 11 - Proceeding to Discover the Death of a Tenant for Life 1105 - Service of Order; Powers of Court or Referee.

§  1105.  Service of order; powers of court or referee. Where an order   requiring the production of the tenant for life, or  proof  that  he  is   living,  is made as prescribed in section 1104, a certified copy thereof   must  be  served,  at  least  fourteen  days  before  the  time  therein   specified,  upon the person required to make the production or proof, or   upon his attorney. Upon presentation of proof of service, by  affidavit,   the  court  or  the referee must, at the time and place specified in the   order, or at the time and place to which the hearing may  be  adjourned,   hear  the allegations and proofs of the parties, respecting the identity   of any person produced, with the person whose death is in  question  or,   if  the  latter  person  is not produced, respecting the reasons for the   failure to produce him, and whether he is living.   Where a  referee  is   appointed,  he  has  the  same  powers,  and  is  entitled  to  the same   compensation, as a referee appointed for the trial  of  an  issue  in  a   civil action in a court of record.
NY Real Prop Actions L § 1106 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RPA - Real Property Actions and Proceedings Article 11 - Proceeding to Discover the Death of a Tenant for Life 1106 - Habeas Corpus.

§   1106.   Habeas  corpus.  If  it  appears,  by  affidavit,  to  the   satisfaction of the court, that the person required to  be  produced  is   imprisoned within the state, for any cause, except upon a sentence for a   felony,  or  is  kept  or detained, within the state, by any person, the   court may, either before or after making the order for production, issue   a writ of habeas corpus to bring him before it, or before  the  referee,   as  the  case  requires.  The  writ  must  be  served  and executed, and   disobedience thereto may be punished, as where a writ of  habeas  corpus   is issued, to inquire into the cause of the detention of a prisoner.
NY Real Prop Actions L § 1107 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RPA - Real Property Actions and Proceedings Article 11 - Proceeding to Discover the Death of a Tenant for Life 1107 - Report of Referee.

§  1107. Report of referee. The referee must deliver his report to the   petitioner, or file it with the clerk, within ten days after the case is   closed. He must state therein whether any person was or was not produced   before him as being the person whose  death  is  in  question.  He  must   append  thereto,  in  the  form  of  depositions,  the  proofs,  if any,   respecting the identity of any person so produced with the person  whose   death  is  in  question  or  if no one is so produced, upon the question   whether the latter person is living. He must also state  in  his  report   his conclusions upon the questions controverted before him.
NY Real Prop Actions L § 1111 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RPA - Real Property Actions and Proceedings Article 11 - Proceeding to Discover the Death of a Tenant for Life 1111 - Dismissal of Petition When Order Complied With.

§  1111. Dismissal of petition when order complied with. If it appears   to the satisfaction of the court, upon  the  referee's  report  and  the   proofs  thereto  appended or, where a referee is not appointed, upon the   allegations and proofs of the parties before the court, that  the  party   required  to produce the tenant for life, or to prove his existence, has   fully complied with the order, the court must make an  order  dismissing   the  petition  and  requiring  the  petitioner  to  pay the costs of the   proceedings.
NY Real Prop Actions L § 1112 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RPA - Real Property Actions and Proceedings Article 11 - Proceeding to Discover the Death of a Tenant for Life 1112 - When Life Tenant Deemed Dead and Petitioner Let Into Possession.

§  1112.  When  life  tenant  deemed  dead  and  petitioner  let  into   possession.   If it appears from  the  referee's  report,  or  upon  the   hearing  before  the  court,  that  the person upon whose life the prior   estate depends was not produced and if the  party  required  to  produce   him, or to prove his existence has not proved to the satisfaction of the   court  that  he is living, a final order must be made, declaring that he   is presumed to  be  dead,  for  the  purpose  of  the  proceedings,  and   directing  that  the  petitioner be forthwith let into possession of the   real property, as if that person was actually dead.
NY Real Prop Actions L § 1121 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RPA - Real Property Actions and Proceedings Article 11 - Proceeding to Discover the Death of a Tenant for Life 1121 - Commission to Be Issued if Life Tenant Is Without the State.

§  1121.  Commission to be issued if life tenant is without the state.   If before or at the time of the presentation of the referee's report  to   the  court, or, where a referee is not appointed, at any time before the   final order is made, the party upon whom the  petition  and  notice  are   served  presents  to the court presumptive proof, by affidavit, that the   person whose death was in question is, or lately was, at a place certain   without the state, the court must make an order requiring the petitioner   to take out a commission, directed to one or more persons residing at or   near that place, either designated in the order or to be appointed  upon   a  subsequent  application  for  the  commission,  for  the  purpose  of   obtaining a view of the person whose death is in question and of  taking   such testimony respecting his identity as the parties produce. The order   must  also direct that the proceedings upon the petition be stayed until   the return of the commission and that the petition  be  dismissed,  with   costs,  unless  the  petitioner  takes  out the commission within a time   specified in the order, and diligently procures it to  be  executed  and   returned at his own expense.
NY Real Prop Actions L § 1122 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RPA - Real Property Actions and Proceedings Article 11 - Proceeding to Discover the Death of a Tenant for Life 1122 - General Provisions Respecting the Commission.

§  1122.  General  provisions  respecting  the  commission.  It is not   necessary, unless the court specially so directs, that the witnesses  to   be  examined  should be named in the commission, or that interrogatories   should be annexed thereto. The commission must be executed and returned,   and the deposition taken must be filed and used, as  prescribed  by  law   for depositions taken without the state for use within the state, except   as otherwise specially prescribed in this article.
NY Real Prop Actions L § 1123 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RPA - Real Property Actions and Proceedings Article 11 - Proceeding to Discover the Death of a Tenant for Life 1123 - Petitioner to Give Notice of Its Execution.

§  1123.  Petitioner  to  give notice of its execution. The petitioner   must give to the adverse party, or his attorney, written notice  of  the   time  when,  and the place where, the commissioner or commissioners will   attend, for the purpose of executing the commission, as follows:a. If the place, where the commission is to be executed, is within the   United States, or the dominion of Canada, he  must  give  at  least  two   months' notice;b.  If  it  is  within  any of the West India islande, he must give at   least three months' notice;c. In every other case, he must give at least four months' notice.Notice may be given, as required by this section,  by  serving  it  as   prescribed by law for the service of a paper upon an attorney in a civil   action in the supreme court.
NY Real Prop Actions L § 1124 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RPA - Real Property Actions and Proceedings Article 11 - Proceeding to Discover the Death of a Tenant for Life 1124 - Execution Thereof.

§  1124.  Execution thereof. The commissioner or commissioners possess   the same powers, and must proceed in the  same  manner,  as  a  referee,   appointed  by  an order requiring the production of the tenant for life,   or proof of his existence; except that  they  cannot  proceed  unless  a   person  is  produced  before them, as being the person whose death is in   question. The return to the commission must expressly state whether  any   person was or was not so produced. The testimony respecting the identity   of  a  person  so  produced  must  be  taken, unless otherwise specially   directed by the court, as prescribed by law, for taking  the  deposition   of  a  witness upon oral interrogatories except that it is not necessary   to give any other notice of the time and place of examination than  that   prescribed in section 1123.
NY Real Prop Actions L § 1125 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RPA - Real Property Actions and Proceedings Article 11 - Proceeding to Discover the Death of a Tenant for Life 1125 - Proceedings on Return of Commission.

§  1125.  Proceedings  on return of commission. Upon the return of the   commission, the proceedings are  the  same  as  upon  the  report  of  a   referee,  as prescribed in sections 1111 and 1112; but the court may, in   its discretion, receive additional proofs from either party.
NY Real Prop Actions L § 1131 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RPA - Real Property Actions and Proceedings Article 11 - Proceeding to Discover the Death of a Tenant for Life 1131 - Costs.

§ 1131. Costs. Where costs of a special proceeding taken as prescribed   in  this article are awarded, they must be fixed by the court at a gross   sum, not exceeding fifty dollars, in addition  to  disbursements.  Where   provision  is not specially made in this article for the award of costs,   they may be denied, or awarded to or against either  party,  as  justice   requires.
NY Real Prop Actions L § 1141 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RPA - Real Property Actions and Proceedings Article 11 - Proceeding to Discover the Death of a Tenant for Life 1141 - Property; When Restored.

§  1141.  Property;  when  restored.  The possession of real property,   which has been awarded to the petitioner as prescribed in this  article,   upon  the  presumption  of  the  death of the person upon whose life the   prior estate depends, must be restored, by the order of  the  court,  to   the  person  evicted, or to his heirs or legal representatives, upon the   petition of the latter and proof, to the satisfaction of the court, that   the person presumed to be dead is living. The proceedings upon  such  an   application  are  the  same  as  prescribed  in  this  article  upon the   application of the person to whom possession is awarded.
NY Real Prop Actions L § 1142 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RPA - Real Property Actions and Proceedings Article 11 - Proceeding to Discover the Death of a Tenant for Life 1142 - Remedy of Person Evicted for Rents and Profits.

§  1142.  Remedy  of  person  evicted  for rents and profits. A person   evicted as prescribed in this article may, if the presumption upon which   he is evicted is erroneous, maintain an action against  the  person  who   has  occupied the property, or his executor or administrator, to recover   the rents and profits of the property, during the occupation, while  the   person upon whose life the prior estate depends is or was living.
NY Real Prop Actions L § 1143 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RPA - Real Property Actions and Proceedings Article 11 - Proceeding to Discover the Death of a Tenant for Life 1143 - Order Not Conclusive in Ejectment.

§  1143.  Order  not  conclusive  in  ejectment. A final order made as   prescribed in this article, awarding to the petitioner the possession of   real property is presumptive evidence only, in an  action  of  ejectment   brought  against  him  by the person evicted, or in an action brought as   prescribed in section 1142, of the life or death  of  the  person,  upon   whose life the prior estate depends.
NY Real Prop Actions L § 1201 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RPA - Real Property Actions and Proceedings Article 12 - Other Actions and Proceedings Between Co-Owners or Owners of Successive Interests 1201 - Action by Joint Tenant or Tenant in Common; May Maintain Action Against Co-Tenant.

§  1201.  Action  by  joint  tenant  or tenant in common; may maintain   action against co-tenant.  A joint tenant or a tenant in common of  real   property,  or  his  executor or administrator, may maintain an action to   recover his just proportion against his co-tenant who has received  more   than his own just proportion, or against his executor or administrator.
NY Real Prop Actions L § 1301 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RPA - Real Property Actions and Proceedings Article 13 - Action to Foreclose a Mortgage 1301 - Separate Action for Mortgage Debt.

§  1301.  Separate  action for mortgage debt.  1. Where final judgment   for the plaintiff has been rendered in an action to recover any part  of   the  mortgage  debt,  an  action shall not be commenced or maintained to   foreclose the mortgage, unless an execution against the property of  the   defendant has been issued upon the judgment to the sheriff of the county   where  he  resides,  if  he  resides  within the state, or if he resides   without the state, to the sheriff of the county where the  judgment-roll   is filed; and has been returned wholly or partly unsatisfied.2. The complaint shall state whether any other action has been brought   to  recover  any part of the mortgage debt, and, if so, whether any part   has been collected.3. While the action  is  pending  or  after  final  judgment  for  the   plaintiff  therein,  no other action shall be commenced or maintained to   recover any part of the mortgage debt, without leave  of  the  court  in   which the former action was brought.
NY Real Prop Actions L § 1302 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RPA - Real Property Actions and Proceedings Article 13 - Action to Foreclose a Mortgage 1302 - Foreclosure of Certain Residential Mortgages.

* § 1302. Foreclosure of high-cost home loans and subprime home loans. 1.    Any  complaint  served  in a proceeding initiated pursuant to this article relating to a high-cost home loan or a subprime  home  loan,  as such  terms  are  defined in section six-l and six-m of the banking law, respectively, must contain an affirmative allegation that  at  the  time the proceeding is commenced, the plaintiff:  (a)  is  the owner and holder of the subject mortgage and note, or has been delegated the authority to institute a mortgage foreclosure  action by the owner and holder of the subject mortgage and note; and  (b)  has  complied  with all of the provisions of section five hundred ninety-five-a  of  the  banking  law  and  any  rules  and   regulations promulgated  thereunder,  section six-l or six-m of the banking law, and section thirteen hundred four of this article.   2. It shall be a defense to an action to foreclose a  mortgage  for  a high-cost  home  loan  or  subprime home loan that the terms of the home loan or the actions of the lender violate any provision of section six-l or six-m of the banking law or section thirteen  hundred  four  of  this article.   * NB Effective until January 1, 2022   * §  1302.  Foreclosure  of  certain  residential  mortgages.  1.  Any complaint served in a proceeding initiated  on  a  residential  mortgage covering  a  one  to  four family dwelling pursuant to this article must contain an affirmative allegation that at the  time  the  proceeding  is commenced, the plaintiff:  (a)  is  the owner and holder of the subject mortgage and note, or has been delegated the authority to institute a mortgage foreclosure  action by the owner and holder of the subject mortgage and note; and  (b)  has  complied  with all of the provisions of section five hundred ninety-five-a  of  the  banking  law  and  any  rules  and   regulations promulgated  thereunder,  section six-l or six-m of the banking law, for loans governed by those provisions, and section thirteen hundred four of this article.   2. It shall be a defense to an action to foreclose a mortgage that the terms of the home  loan  or  the  actions  of  the  lender  violate  any provision  of  section  six-l  or  six-m  of  the banking law or section thirteen hundred four of this article.   * NB Effective January 1, 2022
NY Real Prop Actions L § 1302-A (2021)
2021 New York Laws RPA - Real Property Actions and Proceedings Article 13 - Action to Foreclose a Mortgage 1302-A - Defense of Lack of Standing; Not Waived.

§ 1302-a. Defense of lack of standing; not waived. Notwithstanding the   provisions  of  subdivision (e) of rule thirty-two hundred eleven of the   civil practice law and rules, any objection  or  defense  based  on  the   plaintiff's  lack  of  standing in a foreclosure proceeding related to a   home loan, as defined in paragraph (a) of  subdivision  six  of  section   thirteen  hundred  four  of  this  article,  shall  not  be  waived if a   defendant fails to raise  the  objection  or  defense  in  a  responsive   pleading  or  pre-answer motion to dismiss. A defendant may not raise an   objection or defense of lack of standing following a  foreclosure  sale,   however,  unless  the  judgment  of foreclosure and sale was issued upon   defendant's default.
NY Real Prop Actions L § 1311 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RPA - Real Property Actions and Proceedings Article 13 - Action to Foreclose a Mortgage 1311 - Necessary Defendants.

§  1311.  Necessary defendants.   Each of the following persons, whose   interest is claimed to be subject and  subordinate  to  the  plaintiff's   lien, shall be made a party defendant to the action:1.  Every  person  having  an  estate  or  interest  in possession, or   otherwise, in the property as tenant in fee, for life, by  the  curtesy,   or  for years, and every person entitled to the reversion, remainder, or   inheritance of  the  real  property,  or  of  any  interest  therein  or   undivided  share thereof, after the determination of a particular estate   therein.2. Every person having a right of dower or an inchoate right of  dower   in the real property or any part or share thereof.3.  Every person having any lien or incumbrance upon the real property   which is claimed to be subject  and  subordinate  to  the  lien  of  the   plaintiff.4. Where the mortgage is upon any of the public utilities regulated by   the public service law, the public service commission.
NY Real Prop Actions L § 1312 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RPA - Real Property Actions and Proceedings Article 13 - Action to Foreclose a Mortgage 1312 - Representative Defendants.

§  1312. Representative defendants.  1. Where a trust has been created   by will or by deed or by declaration of  trust,  the  trustees  of  such   trust  who shall have duly qualified shall be made parties defendant and   shall represent all  persons  who  are  or  may  become  entitled  to  a   beneficial  interest in the property or an undivided share thereof or in   the proceeds of sale thereof under and by virtue of said trust  and  all   remaindermen  who are or may become entitled to the reversion, remainder   or inheritance of the property or the proceeds of  sale  thereof  either   before  or  after  the  termination  of  said trust, without naming such   beneficiaries or remaindermen as parties  defendant.    Service  of  the   summons and complaint upon any one of such duly qualified trustees shall   be sufficient service upon the trust estate and upon all persons who are   or  may  become  entitled to a beneficial interest in the property or an   undivided share thereof or in the  proceeds  of  sale  thereof  and  all   remaindermen  who are or may become entitled to the reversion, remainder   or inheritance of the property or the proceeds of  sale  thereof  either   before or after the termination of said trust.2. Whenever the duly qualified executors under a will are made parties   defendant they shall represent all of the legatees named in the will and   the  successors and assigns of such legatees, irrespective of whether or   not such legacies  are  a  charge  upon  the  real  property,  and  such   legatees,  their  successors  and  assigns  need not be named as parties   defendant. Service of the summons and complaint upon  any  one  of  such   duly  qualified executors shall be sufficient service upon the executors   under said will  and  upon  all  legatees  named  in  said  will,  their   successors and assigns, irrespective of whether or not such legacies are   a charge upon the real property.
NY Real Prop Actions L § 1313 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RPA - Real Property Actions and Proceedings Article 13 - Action to Foreclose a Mortgage 1313 - Permissible Defendants.

§  1313.  Permissible  defendants.    Any  person who is liable to the   plaintiff for payment of the debt secured by the mortgage may be made  a   defendant  in  the action. The state may be made a party defendant to an   action for the foreclosure of a mortgage on real property, where it  has   an  interest  in or a lien on the property subsequent to the lien of the   mortgage sought to be foreclosed in said action, in the same manner as a   private person.
NY Real Prop Actions L § 1315 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RPA - Real Property Actions and Proceedings Article 13 - Action to Foreclose a Mortgage 1315 - Action by Owner of Junior Participating Interest.

§  1315.  Action by owner of junior participating interest.  An action   may be maintained by the  owner  of  a  junior  participating  share  or   interest in a bond or note secured by a mortgage on real, or on real and   personal  property,  for  the  payment of principal and interest and for   foreclosure of such bond or note and mortgage in its entirety, or in the   alternative, subject to the interest of the owner of the  senior  share,   notwithstanding  that  the  entire  mortgage debt may be due and payable   according to its terms, in the event that the owner of the senior share,   to whom is given the right in the  participating  agreement  to  enforce   such  bond  or  note  and  mortgage  shall fail or refuse to commence an   action for the enforcement of such bond or  note  and  mortgage  in  any   manner  permitted  thereby, after ten days' written notice and demand to   commence any such action, following default in the performance of any of   the terms and covenants of such bond or note and mortgage.    Upon  such   failure  or  refusal,  such  junior participant may exercise any and all   options and remedies provided in such  bond  or  note  and  mortgage  or   otherwise available to any holder thereof.
NY Real Prop Actions L § 1320 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RPA - Real Property Actions and Proceedings Article 13 - Action to Foreclose a Mortgage 1320 - Special Summons Requirement in Private Residence Cases.

§  1320. Special summons requirement in private residence cases. In an   action to foreclose a mortgage on a residential property containing  not   more  than three units, in addition to the usual requirements applicable   to a summons in the  court,  the  summons  shall  contain  a  notice  in   boldface in the following form:NOTICE YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOMEIf  you do not respond to this summons and complaint by serving a copy   of the answer on the attorney for the mortgage company  who  filed  this   foreclosure proceeding against you and filing the answer with the court,   a default judgment may be entered and you can lose your home.Speak to an attorney or go to the court where your case is pending for   further  information  on  how  to  answer  the  summons and protect your   property.Sending a  payment  to  your  mortgage  company  will  not  stop  this   foreclosure action.YOU  MUST  RESPOND BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR   THE PLAINTIFF (MORTGAGE COMPANY) AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT.