N.Y. Public Lands Law § 11: Power to confirm defective grant

§ 11. Power to confirm defective grant. Whenever a sale is lawfully

made, or directed to be made by the commissioner of general services, or

has been made by his predecessor, the board of commissioners of the land

office, including a sale of land under water, if, at the time of the

making of the grant, the necessary jurisdictional facts existed to

authorize the grant, and by reason of accidental omission or manifest

error, the patent is not acutally issued, or has been issued to the

applicant deficient or manifestly erroneous in description or otherwise,

the commissioner may, in his discretion, and on such terms as seem to

him proper, cause to be issued to such applicant, or to persons deriving

claim or title from him subsequently to the making of the grant, a

release or confirmatory grant of such lands or any parts thereof, which

release or confirmatory grant shall vest in the grantee therein named

such right and estate, to the extent of the right or title of the state

in such lands, or parts thereof, as is therein named.