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Terms Used In N.Y. Real Property Law 292-A

  • conveyance: includes every written instrument, by which any estate or interest in real property is created, transferred, mortgaged or assigned, or by which the title to any real property may be affected, including an instrument in execution of a power, although the power be one of revocation only, and an instrument postponing or subordinating a mortgage lien; except a will, a lease for a term not exceeding three years, an executory contract for the sale or purchase of lands, and an instrument containing a power to convey real property as the agent or attorney for the owner of such property. See N.Y. Real Property Law 290
  • Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
  • Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
  • Power of attorney: A written instrument which authorizes one person to act as another's agent or attorney. The power of attorney may be for a definite, specific act, or it may be general in nature. The terms of the written power of attorney may specify when it will expire. If not, the power of attorney usually expires when the person granting it dies. Source: OCC
  • real property: as used in this article , includes lands, tenements and hereditaments and chattels real, except a lease for a term not exceeding three years. See N.Y. Real Property Law 290
  • Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
  • recorded: means the entry, at length, upon the pages of the proper record books in a plain and legible hand writing, or in print or in symbols of drawing or by photographic process or partly in writing, partly in printing, partly in symbols of drawing or partly by photographic process or by any combination of writing, printing, drawing or photography or either or any two of them, or by an electronic process by which a record or instrument affecting real property, after delivery is incorporated into the public record. See N.Y. Real Property Law 290

A conveyance of real property, within the state, or of any interest therein, including an instrument discharging or satisfying a lien created by any such conveyance, executed and acknowledged by an attorney in fact of any corporation wholly owned, directly or indirectly, by the United States of America, or any other corporation which has so filed a power of attorney, whether heretofore or hereafter so executed and acknowledged, shall be entitled to recordation under this article on tender of the lawful fees therefor, even though the corporate seal of such corporation be not annexed or affixed, if the power of attorney pursuant to which such attorney in fact has executed such conveyance, duly acknowledged or proved by such corporation, and certified, as required by section two hundred ninety-four, is filed or recorded in the office of the clerk of the county where the real property, which is the subject of such conveyance, is located.