1. When a certificate of acknowledgment or proof is made, within this state, by a commissioner of deeds, a justice of the peace, town council member, village police justice, or a judge of any court of inferior local jurisdiction, such certificate does not entitle the conveyance so acknowledged or proved to be read in evidence or recorded in any county of this state except a county in which the officer making such certificate is authorized to act at the time of making the same, unless such certificate is authenticated by a certificate of the clerk of such county; provided, however, that all certificates of acknowledgment or proof, made by a commissioner of deeds of the city of New York residing in any part therein, shall be authenticated by the clerk of any county within said city, in whose office such commissioner of deeds shall have filed a certificate under the hand and seal of the city clerk of said city, showing the appointment and term of office of such commissioner; and no other certificates shall be required from any other officer to entitle such conveyance to be read in evidence or recorded in any county of this state.
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Terms Used In N.Y. Real Property Law 310

  • 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
  • Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • 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
2. Except as provided in this section, no certificate of authentication shall be required to entitle a conveyance to be read in evidence or recorded in this state when acknowledged or proved before any officer designated in section two hundred ninety-eight of this article to take such acknowledgment or proof, nor shall such authentication be required for recording in the office of the city register of the city of New York of such acknowledgment or proof by a commissioner of deeds of the city of New York.