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NY Real Prop L § 130-H (2021)
2021 New York Laws RPP - Real Property Article 4-A - Trust Indentures and Interests Therein 130-H - Construction of Article.

§  130-h.  Construction  of  article.  This article shall be construed   liberally to effectuate its purpose.  The enumeration by this article of   specific powers and duties in trust  indentures  and  other  instruments   shall  not  preclude  or  prevent  the  use,  exercise  or  enjoyment of   additional powers and duties under or pursuant to  such  instruments  or   excuse  the  failure to exercise or perform such other powers or duties.   Nothing contained in this article shall be construed to repeal any other   provision of law except in so far as it is  irreconcilably  in  conflict   with  a  provision  of  this  article  in  which  event the latter shall   control.
NY Real Prop L § 130-I (2021)
2021 New York Laws RPP - Real Property Article 4-A - Trust Indentures and Interests Therein 130-I - Separability.

§ 130-i. Separability. If any of the provisions of this article or the   application  thereof to any person or circumstance be held invalid, such   invalidity shall not affect or impair other provisions  or  applications   to  other  circumstances  which  can be given effect without the invalid   provision or application, and to this end the provisions of this article   are declared to be separable.
NY Real Prop L § 130-J (2021)
2021 New York Laws RPP - Real Property Article 4-A - Trust Indentures and Interests Therein 130-J - Right to Appeal.

§  130-j.  Right  to appeal. Any person aggrieved by any determination   hereunder shall have such right of appeal as is granted to a party to  a   special  proceeding.    All  proceedings  and appeals hereunder shall be   entitled to such preference  as  is  granted  in  respect  to  plans  of   reorganization   under   the  provisions  of  section  one  hundred  and   twenty-two of this chapter.
NY Real Prop L § 189 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RPP - Real Property Article 6 - Dower and Curtesy 189 - Estate of Curtesy Abolished.

§  189.  Estate  of  curtesy  abolished.  The common law estate by the   curtesy in the real property of a wife dying after the thirty-first  day   of  August,  nineteen  hundred  and  thirty,  and all its incidents, are   hereby abolished.
NY Real Prop L § 190 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RPP - Real Property Article 6 - Dower and Curtesy 190 - Dower.

§  190. Dower. When the parties intermarried prior to the first day of   September, nineteen hundred and thirty, a widow shall be endowed of  the   third  part  of all the lands whereof her husband was prior to the first   day of September, nineteen hundred and thirty, seized of  an  estate  of   inheritance,  at  any  time  during the marriage. Except as hereinbefore   provided, after the thirty-first day of  August,  nineteen  hundred  and   thirty,  no  inchoate right of dower shall be possessed by a wife during   coverture, and no widow shall be  endowed,  in  any  lands  whereof  her   husband became seized of an estate of inheritance.
NY Real Prop L § 190-B (2021)
2021 New York Laws RPP - Real Property Article 6 - Dower and Curtesy 190-B - Lands Reacquired by the Husband.

§  190-b.  Lands reacquired by the husband. Lands in which the husband   did not have an estate  of  inheritance  on  September  first,  nineteen   hundred  thirty,  and  in  which  the wife did not then have an inchoate   right of dower, shall not be subject to dower or an  inchoate  right  of   dower if acquired by the husband after said date, although they had been   owned by the husband prior to said date.
NY Real Prop L § 191 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RPP - Real Property Article 6 - Dower and Curtesy 191 - Dower in Lands Exchanged.

§  191.  Dower in lands exchanged. If a husband seized of an estate of   inheritance in lands, exchanges them for other lands,  his  widow  shall   not have dower of both, but she must make her election, to be endowed of   the  lands given, or of those taken, in exchange; and if her election be   not evinced by the commencement of an action to recover her dower of the   lands given in exchange, within one year after the death of her husband,   she is deemed to have elected to take her dower of the lands received in   exchange.
NY Real Prop L § 192 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RPP - Real Property Article 6 - Dower and Curtesy 192 - Dower in Lands Mortgaged Before Marriage.

§ 192. Dower in lands mortgaged before marriage. Where a person seized   of  an  estate  of  inheritance  in  lands, executes a mortgage thereof,   before marriage, his widow is, nevertheless, entitled to  dower  of  the   lands  mortgaged, as against every person except the mortgagee and those   claiming under him.
NY Real Prop L § 193 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RPP - Real Property Article 6 - Dower and Curtesy 193 - Dower in Lands Mortgaged for Purchase-Money.

§  193.  Dower  in lands mortgaged for purchase-money. Where a husband   purchases lands during the marriage, and at the same time mortgages  his   estate  in  those lands to secure the payment of the purchase-money, his   widow is not entitled to dower of those lands, as against the  mortgagee   or those claiming under him, although she did not unite in the mortgage.   She is entitled to her dower as against every other person.
NY Real Prop L § 194 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RPP - Real Property Article 6 - Dower and Curtesy 194 - Surplus Proceeds of Sale Under Purchase-Money Mortgages.

§  194.  Surplus  proceeds  of  sale  under  purchase-money mortgages.   Where, in a case specified in the last  section,  the  mortgagee,  or  a   person  claiming  under him, causes the land mortgaged to be sold, after   the death of the husband, either under a power of sale contained in  the   mortgage,  or  by  virtue  of  a  judgment in an action to foreclose the   mortgage, and any surplus remains, after payment of the money due on the   mortgage  and  the  costs  and  charges  of  the  sale,  the  widow   is   nevertheless entitled to the interest or income of one-third part of the   surplus for her life, as her dower.
NY Real Prop L § 195 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RPP - Real Property Article 6 - Dower and Curtesy 195 - Widow of Mortgagee Not Endowed.

§ 195. Widow of mortgagee not endowed. A widow shall not be endowed of   the lands conveyed to her husband by way of mortgage, unless he acquires   an absolute estate therein, during the marriage.
NY Real Prop L § 196 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RPP - Real Property Article 6 - Dower and Curtesy 196 - When Dower Barred by Misconduct.

§  196.  When  dower  barred  by  misconduct.  In  case  of a divorce,   dissolving the marriage contract for the misconduct  of  the  wife,  she   shall not be endowed.
NY Real Prop L § 196-A (2021)
2021 New York Laws RPP - Real Property Article 6 - Dower and Curtesy 196-A - When Dower Barred by Dissolution of Marriage.

§  196-a.  When  dower barred by dissolution of marriage. In case of a   dissolution of the marriage because of the absence of the wife for  five   successive  years,  as  provided  in  section  seven-a  of  the domestic   relations law, she shall not be endowed.
NY Real Prop L § 197 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RPP - Real Property Article 6 - Dower and Curtesy 197 - When Dower Barred by Jointure.

§ 197. When dower barred by jointure. Where an estate in real property   is  conveyed  to a person and his intended wife, or to the intended wife   alone, or to a person in trust for them or for the intended wife  alone,   for the purpose of creating a jointure for her, and with her assent, the   jointure  bars  her  right  or  claim  of  dower in all the lands of the   husband. The assent of the wife to such a jointure is evidenced, if  she   be of full age, by her becoming a party to the conveyance by which it is   settled;  if  she be a minor, by her joining with her father or guardian   in that conveyance.
NY Real Prop L § 198 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RPP - Real Property Article 6 - Dower and Curtesy 198 - When Dower Barred by Pecuniary Provisions.

§  198.  When  dower  barred  by  pecuniary  provisions. Any pecuniary   provision, made for the benefit of an  intended  wife  and  in  lieu  of   dower, if assented to by her as prescribed in the last section, bars her   right or claim of dower in all the lands of her husband.
NY Real Prop L § 199 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RPP - Real Property Article 6 - Dower and Curtesy 199 - When Widow to Elect Between Jointure and Dower.

§  199. When widow to elect between jointure and dower. If, before the   marriage, but without her  assent,  or,  if  after  the  marriage,  real   property  is given or assured for the jointure of a wife, or a pecuniary   provision is made for her, in lieu of dower, she must make her  election   whether she will take the jointure or pecuniary provision, or be endowed   of the lands of her husband; but she is not entitled to both.
NY Real Prop L § 200 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RPP - Real Property Article 6 - Dower and Curtesy 200 - Election Between Devise and Dower.

§  200. Election between devise and dower. If real property is devised   to a woman, or a pecuniary or other provision is made for her by will in   lieu of her dower, she must make her election whether she will take  the   property  so  devised,  or  the provisions so made, or be endowed of the   lands of her husband; but she is not entitled to both.
NY Real Prop L § 201 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RPP - Real Property Article 6 - Dower and Curtesy 201 - When Deemed to Have Elected.

§  201.  When  deemed to have elected. Where a woman is entitled to an   election, as prescribed in either of  the  last  two  sections,  she  is   deemed  to  have  elected  to  take  the  jointure,  devise or pecuniary   provision, unless within six months after the death of her  husband  she   enters  upon  the  lands  assigned to her for her dower, or commences an   action for her dower. But, during such period of six  months  after  the   death  of  her  said  husband,  her  time  to  make such election may be   enlarged by the order of any court competent to pass on the accounts  of   executors,  administrators  or  testamentary  trustees,  or to admeasure   dower, on an affidavit showing the pendency of a proceeding  to  contest   the  probate  of  the will containing such jointure, devise or pecuniary   provision, or of an action to construe or set aside such will,  or  that   the  amount  of  claims  against  the  estate of the testator can not be   ascertained within the period so limited, or other reasonable cause, and   on notice given to such persons, and in such manner, as such  court  may   direct. Such order shall be indexed and recorded in the same manner as a   notice  of  pendency of action in the office of the clerk of each county   wherein the real property or  a  portion  thereof  affected  thereby  is   situated.
NY Real Prop L § 202 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RPP - Real Property Article 6 - Dower and Curtesy 202 - When Provision in Lieu of Dower Is Forfeited.

§  202.  When provision in lieu of dower is forfeited. Every jointure,   devise and pecuniary provision in lieu of  dower  is  forfeited  by  the   woman  for whose benefit it is made in a case in which she would forfeit   her dower; and on such forfeiture, an estate so conveyed  for  jointure,   or  devised,  or a pecuniary provision so made, immediately vests in the   person or legal representatives of the person in whom  they  would  have   vested on the determination of her interest therein, by her death.
NY Real Prop L § 203 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RPP - Real Property Article 6 - Dower and Curtesy 203 - Effect of Acts of Husband.

§ 203. Effect of acts of husband. An act, deed or conveyance, executed   or performed by the husband without the assent of his wife, evidenced by   her  acknowledgment  thereof,  in the manner required by law to pass the   contingent right of dower of a married woman, or a  judgment  or  decree   confessed by or recovered against him, or any laches, default, covin, or   crime  of  a  husband,  does  not prejudice the right of his wife to her   dower or jointure, or preclude her from the recovery thereof.
NY Real Prop L § 204 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RPP - Real Property Article 6 - Dower and Curtesy 204 - Widow's Quarantine.

§  204.  Widow's  quarantine. A widow may remain in the chief house of   her husband forty days after his death,  whether  her  dower  is  sooner   assigned  to  her or not, without being liable to any rent for the same;   and in the meantime she may have her reasonable sustenance  out  of  the   estate of her husband.
NY Real Prop L § 205 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RPP - Real Property Article 6 - Dower and Curtesy 205 - Widow May Bequeath a Crop.

§  205.  Widow may bequeath a crop. A widow may bequeath a crop in the   ground of land held by her in dower.
NY Real Prop L § 206 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RPP - Real Property Article 6 - Dower and Curtesy 206 - Divorced Woman May Release Dower.

§  206. Divorced woman may release dower. A woman who is divorced from   her husband, whether such divorce be absolute or limited, or granted  in   his or her favor, by any court of competent jurisdiction, may release to   him,  by  an  instrument  in  writing,  sufficient to pass title to real   estate, her inchoate right  of  dower  in  any  specific  real  property   theretofore  owned  by  him, or generally in all such real property, and   such as he shall thereafter acquire.
NY Real Prop L § 207 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RPP - Real Property Article 6 - Dower and Curtesy 207 - Married Woman May Release Dower by Attorney.

§ 207. Married woman may release dower by attorney. A married woman of   full  age  may  release  her inchoate right of dower in real property by   attorney in fact in any case where she can personally release the same.
NY Real Prop L § 220 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RPP - Real Property Article 7 - Landlord and Tenant 220 - Action for Use and Occupation.

§  220.  Action  for  use  and  occupation. The landlord may recover a   reasonable compensation for the use and occupation of real property,  by   any  person,  under an agreement, not made by deed; and a parol lease or   other agreement may be used as evidence of the amount  to  which  he  is   entitled.
NY Real Prop L § 221 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RPP - Real Property Article 7 - Landlord and Tenant 221 - Rent Due on Life Leases Recoverable.

§  221.  Rent  due on life leases recoverable. Rent due on a lease for   life or lives is recoverable by action, as  well  after  as  before  the   death  of  the  person  on  whose life the rent depends, and in the same   manner as rent due on a lease for years.
NY Real Prop L § 222 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RPP - Real Property Article 7 - Landlord and Tenant 222 - When Rent Is Apportionable.

§  222. When rent is apportionable. Where a tenant for life, who shall   have demised the real property, dies  before  the  first  rent  day,  or   between  two  rent  days,  his executor or administrator may recover the   proportion of rent which accrued to him before his death.
NY Real Prop L § 223 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RPP - Real Property Article 7 - Landlord and Tenant 223 - Rights Where Property or Lease Is Transferred.

§  223.  Rights where property or lease is transferred. The grantee of   leased real property, or of a reversion thereof, or  of  any  rent,  the   devisee  or  assignee  of  the  lessor  of  such a lease, or the heir or   personal representative of either of them, has  the  same  remedies,  by   entry,  action  or  otherwise,  for  the nonperformance of any agreement   contained in the assigned lease for the recovery of rent, for the  doing   of  any waste, or for other cause of forfeiture as his grantor or lessor   had, or would have had, if the reversion had remained in him.  A  lessee   of  real property, his assignee or personal representative, has the same   remedy  against  the  lessor,  his   grantee   or   assignee,   or   the   representative  of  either,  for the breach of an agreement contained in   the lease, that the lessee might have had against his immediate  lessor,   except  a  covenant  against  incumbrances  or  relating to the title or   possession of the premises leased. This section applies  as  well  to  a   grant  or  lease  in  fee, reserving rent, as to a lease for life or for   years; but not to a deed of conveyance in fee, made before the ninth day   of April, eighteen hundred and five, or  after  the  fourteenth  day  of   April, eighteen hundred and sixty.
NY Real Prop L § 223-A (2021)
2021 New York Laws RPP - Real Property Article 7 - Landlord and Tenant 223-A - Remedies of Lessee When Possession Is Not Delivered.

§  223-a. Remedies of lessee when possession is not delivered.  In the   absence of an express provision to the contrary, there shall be  implied   in every lease of real property a condition that the lessor will deliver   possession  at the beginning of the term. In the event of breach of such   implied condition the lessee shall have the right to rescind  the  lease   and  to  recover  the consideration paid. Such right shall not be deemed   inconsistent with any right of action he may have to recover damages.
NY Real Prop L § 224 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RPP - Real Property Article 7 - Landlord and Tenant 224 - Attornment by Tenant.

§  224. Attornment by tenant. The attornment of a tenant to a stranger   is absolutely void and does not in any way affect the possession of  the   landlord unless made either:1. With the consent of the landlord; or,2.  Pursuant to or in consequence of a judgment, order, or decree of a   court of competent jurisdiction; or3. To a purchaser at foreclosure sale.
NY Real Prop L § 225 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RPP - Real Property Article 7 - Landlord and Tenant 225 - Notice of Action Adverse to Possession of Tenant.

§  225.  Notice  of  action  adverse  to possession of tenant. Where a   process or summons in an action to recover the real property occupied by   him, or the possession  thereof,  is  served  upon  a  tenant,  he  must   forthwith give notice thereof to his landlord; otherwise he forfeits the   value  of  three  years' rent of such property, to the landlord or other   person of whom he holds.
NY Real Prop L § 226 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RPP - Real Property Article 7 - Landlord and Tenant 226 - Effect of Renewal on Sub-Lease.

§ 226. Effect of renewal on sub-lease. The surrender of an under-lease   is not requisite to the validity of the surrender of the original lease,   where  a  new lease is given by the chief landlord. Such a surrender and   renewal do not impair any right or interest of the chief  landlord,  his   lessee  or  the  holder  of  an  under-lease,  under the original lease;   including the chief landlord's remedy by entry, for the rent  or  duties   secured  by the new lease, not exceeding the rent and duties reserved in   the original lease surrendered.
NY Real Prop L § 226-A (2021)
2021 New York Laws RPP - Real Property Article 7 - Landlord and Tenant 226-A - Effect of New Lease on Tenant's Right to Remove Fixtures or Improvements.

§  226-a.  Effect of new lease on tenant's right to remove fixtures or   improvements. Unless otherwise expressly agreed, where a  tenant  has  a   right  to  remove fixtures or improvements, such right shall not be lost   or impaired by reason of his acceptance of  a  new  lease  of  the  same   premises without any surrender of possession between terms.
NY Real Prop L § 226-C (2021)
2021 New York Laws RPP - Real Property Article 7 - Landlord and Tenant 226-C - Notice of Rent Increase or Non-Renewal of Residential Tenancy.

§  226-c.  Notice  of  rent  increase  or  non-renewal  of residential tenancy. 1. Whenever a landlord intends to offer to renew the tenancy of an occupant in a residential dwelling unit with a rent increase equal to or greater than five percent above the current  rent,  or  the  landlord does not intend to renew the tenancy, the landlord shall provide written notice  as  required in subdivision two of this section. If the landlord fails to provide timely notice,  the  occupant's  lawful  tenancy  shall continue  under the existing terms of the tenancy from the date on which the landlord gave actual written notice  until  the  notice  period  has expired,  notwithstanding  any  provision  of  a  lease or other tenancy agreement to the contrary.   2. (a) For the purposes of this section, the required notice shall  be based  on  the  cumulative  amount  of  time the tenant has occupied the residence or the length of the  tenancy  in  each  lease,  whichever  is longer.  (b)  If  the  tenant  has occupied the unit for less than one year and does not have a lease term of at least  one  year,  the  landlord  shall provide at least thirty days' notice.  (c)  If  the  tenant  has occupied the unit for more than one year but less than two years, or has a lease term of at least one year  but  less than two years, the landlord shall provide at least sixty days' notice.  (d) If the tenant has occupied the unit for more than two years or has a  lease term of at least two years, the landlord shall provide at least ninety days' notice.
NY Real Prop L § 227 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RPP - Real Property Article 7 - Landlord and Tenant 227 - When Tenant May Surrender Premises.

§  227. When tenant may surrender premises.  Where any building, which   is leased or occupied, is destroyed or so injured by  the  elements,  or   any  other  cause as to be untenantable, and unfit for occupancy, and no   express agreement to the contrary has been made in writing,  the  lessee   or  occupant  may,  if the destruction or injury occurred without his or   her fault or neglect, quit and surrender  possession  of  the  leasehold   premises,  and  of  the land so leased or occupied; and he or she is not   liable to pay to the lessor or owner, rent for the  time  subsequent  to   the surrender. Any rent paid in advance or which may have accrued by the   terms  of  a  lease or any other hiring shall be adjusted to the date of   such surrender.
NY Real Prop L § 227-E (2021)
2021 New York Laws RPP - Real Property Article 7 - Landlord and Tenant 227-E - Landlord Duty to Mitigate Damages.

§  227-e.  Landlord  duty  to mitigate damages. In any lease or rental   agreement, excluding  any  real  estate  purchase  contract  defined  in   paragraphs  (a), (c) and (d) of subdivision four of section four hundred   sixty-one of this  chapter,  covering  premises  occupied  for  dwelling   purposes,  if  a  tenant vacates a premises in violation of the terms of   the lease, the landlord shall,  in  good  faith  and  according  to  the   landlord's  resources  and  abilities,  take  reasonable  and  customary   actions to rent the premises at fair market value or at the rate  agreed   to  during  the term of the tenancy, whichever is lower. If the landlord   rents the premises at fair market value or at the rate agreed to  during   the  term  of the tenancy, the new tenant's lease shall, once in effect,   terminate the previous tenant's lease  and  mitigate  damages  otherwise   recoverable  against  the  previous  tenant  because  of  such  tenant's   vacating the premises. The burden of proof shall be on the party seeking   to recover damages. Any provision in a lease that exempts  a  landlord's   duty to mitigate damages under this section shall be void as contrary to   public policy.