39 – Property, Personal.
§ 39. Property, personal. The term personal property includes chattels, money, things in action, and all written instruments themselves, as distinguished from the rights or interests to which they relate, by which any right, interest, lien or incumbrance in, to or upon property, or any debt or financial obligation is created, acknowledged, evidenced, transferred, discharged […]
40 – Property, Real.
§ 40. Property, real. The term real property includes real estate, lands, tenements and hereditaments, corporeal and incorporeal.
41 – Quorum and Majority.
§ 41. Quorum and majority. Whenever three or more public officers are given any power or authority, or three or more persons are charged with any public duty to be performed or exercised by them jointly or as a board or similar body, a majority of the whole number of such persons or officers, gathered […]
41-A – Recital in Record of Meeting as Evidence.
§ 41-a. Recital in record of meeting as evidence. A recital in any order, resolution or other record of any proceeding of a meeting referred to in section forty-one of this chapter that such meeting had been held or adjourned as provided in said section, or that it had been held upon notice to the […]
42 – Register of County.
§ 42. Register of county. Any act done in pursuance of law by the register of a county shall be deemed to be a compliance with any provision of law authorizing or requiring such act to be done by the county clerk of such county, and any instrument or writing filed, entered or recorded in […]
43 – Seal of Court, Public Officer or Corporation.
§ 43. Seal of court, public officer or corporation. A seal of a court, public officer or corporation may be impressed directly upon the instrument or writing to be sealed, or upon wafer, wax or other adhesive substance affixed thereto, or upon paper, or other similar substance affixed thereto by mucilage or other adhesive substance, […]
44 – Seal, Private.
§ 44. Seal, private. The private seal of a person, other than a corporation, to any instrument or writing shall consist of a wafer, wax or other similar adhesive substance affixed thereto, or of paper or other similar substance affixed thereto, by mucilage or other adhesive substance, or of the word “seal,” or the letters […]
44-A – Seal on Written Instrument.
§ 44-a. Seal on written instrument. Except as otherwise expressly provided by statute, the presence or absence of a seal upon a written instrument executed after August thirty-first, nineteen hundred forty-one shall be without legal effect.
45 – Seal, Private as Corporate Seal.
§ 45. Seal, private as corporate seal. An instrument or writing duly executed, in the corporate name of a corporation, which shall not have adopted a corporate seal, by the proper officers of the corporation under their private seals, shall be deemed to have been executed under the corporate seal.
36 – Oath, Affidavit and Swear.
§ 36. Oath, affidavit and swear. The terms oath and affidavit include every mode authorized by law of attesting the truth of that which is stated. The term swear includes every mode authorized by law for administering an oath.