2010 New York Code
RPP - Real Property
Article 9 - (290 - 336) RECORDING INSTRUMENTS AFFECTING REAL PROPERTY
332-B - The record of certain other conveyances validated.

§  332-b.  The  record  of certain other conveyances validated. 1. The
  record made subsequent to February thirteenth,  nineteen  hundred  forty
  and  prior  to  the time this section shall take effect 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  any  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.  Nothing  in  this  section  shall  affect  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 shall take effect.