2012 New York Consolidated Laws
RPP - Real Property
Article 9 - (290 - 336) RECORDING INSTRUMENTS AFFECTING REAL PROPERTY
332 - The record of certain conveyances validated.

 
    § 332. The record of certain conveyances validated. 1. The record made
  prior  to  July  first, nineteen hundred fifty-five in the office of the
  recording officer of any county in this state  of  any  deed,  mortgage,
  assignment  or  satisfaction piece of a mortgage, or other conveyance or
  power  of  attorney,  otherwise  authorized  to  be  recorded   therein,
  notwithstanding  that the certificate of acknowledgment or proof did not
  set forth the place of residence  of  a  subscribing  witness  or  of  a
  corporate  officer  or director, or did not set it forth with sufficient
  particularity, and notwithstanding any other defect in the form  of  the
  certificate  of acknowledgment or proof or the failure to append thereto
  a  certificate  as  to  the  authority  of  the  person  who  took   the
  acknowledgment  or proof, to take the same, or any defect in the form of
  such certificate of authority, shall be in all  respects  as  valid  and
  effectual  as  though  such  certificate  of  acknowledgment or proof or
  certificate of authority had been in proper form or such certificate  of
  authority  had been appended to such instrument. Provided only that such
  person  was  duly  authorized  at  the  time  of  taking  the  proof  or
  acknowledgment  to  take  the same in the county where the instrument is
  recorded or in the place, whether within or without the  United  States,
  where the same was taken.
    2.  All  acknowledgments or proofs of conveyance of real property made
  or taken prior to April tenth, nineteen hundred thirty, before a  judge,
  clerk,  deputy clerk or special deputy clerk of a court not of record of
  this state are confirmed.
    3. All acts of the secretary of state of any state or territory of the
  United States in authenticating a certificate of acknowledgment or proof
  of a conveyance of real property  within  the  state,  performed  before
  October  first,  nineteen  hundred  twenty-five,  are  hereby confirmed,
  provided that the said certificate of  authentication  is  in  the  form
  required  by  the  laws  of  this  state on March twenty-third, nineteen
  hundred twenty-six or now required by law.
    4. If an instrument is recorded hereafter notwithstanding the omission
  from the certificate of acknowledgment or proof of the street and street
  number of a subscribing witness or of a corporate  officer  or  director
  contrary to the provisions of sections three hundred four, three hundred
  nine, three hundred nine-a and three hundred nine-b of this article, the
  record  of  such  instrument  shall not be invalidated by reason of such
  omission nor shall the title founded  on  such  instrument  be  impaired
  thereby.
    5.  Nothing  in  this  section  shall  effect  any  pending  action or
  proceeding nor the rights of any purchaser  in  good  faith  and  for  a
  valuable  consideration  whose  conveyance shall have been duly recorded
  before this section as amended shall take effect.