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2014 New York Laws
CVR - Civil Rights
Article 7 - (70 - 79-N*2) MISCELLANEOUS RIGHTS AND IMMUNITIES
79-D - Creditor of convict.

NY Civ Rights L § 79-D (2014) What's This?
  79-d.  Creditor of convict. A person injured by the commission of a
  felony, for which the offender is sentenced to imprisonment in  a  state
  prison,  is deemed the creditor of the offender, and of his estate after
  his death, within the provisions of the statutes relating thereto.

The damages sustained by the person injured by the felonious act,  may
  be  ascertained in an action brought for that purpose by him against the
  trustees of the estate of the offender, appointed under  the  provisions
  of  the  statutes,  or  the  executor or administrator of the offender's
  estate.

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