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2013 New York Consolidated Laws
RPA - Real Property Actions & Proceedings
Article 5 - (501 - 551) ADVERSE POSSESSION
522 - Essentials of adverse possession not under written instrument or judgment.


NY Real Prop Actions L § 522 (2012) What's This?
 
    §  522.  Essentials of adverse possession not under written instrument
  or judgment. For the purpose of constituting an adverse  possession  not
  founded  upon  a  written  instrument  or  a judgment or decree, land is
  deemed to have been possessed and occupied in either  of  the  following
  cases, and no others:
    1.  Where  there  have been acts sufficiently open to put a reasonably
  diligent owner on notice.
    2. Where it has been protected by a substantial enclosure,  except  as
  provided  in subdivision one of section five hundred forty-three of this
  article.

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