US Laws, Codes, Statutes & Cases

 
    §  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  to  the
  satisfaction of the court, that the case is one of  those  specified  in
  that  section, and must describe the property with common certainty, and
  state what, if any, liens or incumbrances exist thereon, and  the  names
  of  the  persons,  if any, besides the petitioners, who have been in the
  actual possession of the property during the  past  ten  years  claiming
  title  as  owners  thereof  in  fee, and how such title was derived, and
  shall also annex to said petition a duly certified copy of the sheriff's
  or referee's deed recorded ten years since under which petitioners claim
  title.
    2. In case the property described in said sheriff's or referee's  deed
  shall  have  been subdivided, the owner or owners of the several parcels
  thereof may unite in the same petition and proceeding.