N.Y. Public Lands Law § 138: When attorney-general may maintain action

§ 138. When attorney-general may maintain action. The

attorney-general may maintain an action to vacate or annul

letters-patent, granted by the people of the state, in either of the

following cases:

1. Where they were obtained by means of a fraudulent suggestion, or

concealment of a material fact, made by, or with the knowledge or

consent of, the person to whom they were issued.

2. Where they were issued in ignorance of a material fact, or through

mistake.

3. Where the patentee, or those claiming under him, have done or

admitted an act, in violation of the terms and conditions upon which the

letters-patent were granted, or have, by any other means, forfeited the

interest acquired under the same.

Whenever the attorney-general has good reason to believe that any act

or omission, specified in this section, can be proved, and that the

person to be made defendant has no sufficient legal defence, he must

commence such an action.