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N.Y. Abandoned Property Law § 212: Escheated lands subject to trusts and incumbrances

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  1. Abandoned Property Law
  2. Article 2. Escheat of Real Property

§ 212. Escheated lands subject to trusts and incumbrances. Lands

escheated to the state shall be held subject to the same trusts and

incumbrances to which they would have been subject if they had

descended, except that where the owner or beneficiaries of such trusts

or the holders of such incumbrances have been made parties to an action

brought under section two hundred one, such land shall be subject only

to trusts and incumbrances of record in the county in which the land is

located prior to the filing of notice of pendency of action authorized

under section two hundred one.

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