§ 1901. Release of rents reserved by leases in perpetuity. 1. Any person interested in lands held under a lease in perpetuity, upon which no rent has been paid for at least twenty years, may present his petition to the courts mentioned in this section asking that it be declared that the rents and reversion […]
§ 1941. When special proceeding to quiet title may be maintained. Whenever real property shall have been conveyed by a sheriff or referee, pursuant to a judicial decree, which decree has been lost or destroyed, and the defendants (other than lienors or incumbrancers) named in the notice of pendency of the action in which such […]
§ 1942. Petition in special proceeding to quiet title. 1. A person or persons, desiring to institute a proceeding under section nineteen hundred forty-one, must present a petition to the supreme court at a special term to be held in the judicial district in which the real property is situated, setting forth the facts proving […]
§ 1943. Order for publication of notice to persons interested. Upon the presentation of such petition, duly verified, the said court shall make an order for the publication of a notice requiring all persons claiming any interest in the real property described in such petition to appear before the court at a special term thereof, […]
§ 1944. Hearing and final order upon non-appearance of adverse claimants. Upon the return day named in said notice the court shall proceed summarily to inquire into the truth of the matters set forth in the petition, and may appoint a referee for that purpose, and if there shall be no appearance by any person […]
§ 1945. Hearing and final order upon appearance of adverse claimants. If any person shall appear on the return day of said notice and claim in writing an interest in the real property adverse to that of the petitioners, stating the nature of his claim and his place of residence, the court may proceed in […]
§ 1946. Notice of pendency to be filed and recorded. No final order pursuant to section 1944 or section 1945 shall be made until the petitioners named in said proceedings, or their attorney, shall file in the clerk’s office of the county in which such real property is situated a notice of the pendency of […]
§ 1951. Extinguishment of non-substantial restrictions on the use of land. 1. No restriction on the use of land created at any time by covenant, promise or negative easement, or created on or after September 1, 1958, by a special limitation or condition subsequent governed by section 1953, shall be enforced by injunction or judgment […]
§ 1953. Effect of certain special limitations and conditions subsequent. 1. Except as provided in subdivision 4, a special limitation or condition subsequent created on or after September 1, 1958 shall be governed by this section in any case where it expressly or by necessary result restricts the use of land, but if such special […]
§ 1954. Action to limit existing possibilities of reverter and rights of entry restricting the use of land. 1. This section shall apply to a special limitation or condition subsequent created prior to September 1, 1958 which would be subject to section 1953 if it had been created on or after September 1, 1958. 2. […]
§ 1955. Modification or extinguishment of certain restrictions on the use of land held for charitable purposes. 1. Where land is held, whether or not in trust, for benevolent, charitable, educational, public or religious purposes and the use of such land is restricted to such purpose or to a particular application of or means of […]
