N.Y. Real Property Actions & Proceedings Law § 341: Recitals as to heirships in conveyances

§ 341. Recitals as to heirships in conveyances. Hereafter, in any

special proceeding or action in any of the courts of this state, any

deed, mortgage, lease, release, power of attorney or other instrument

more than ten years old, executed for the purpose of transferring the

title to or interest in lands, tenements or hereditaments situated

within this state, which contains recitals that the grantors, grantees,

or either, or both, are the heirs at law of a prior owner of the title

or interest described in said instrument, or a survivor of a tenancy by

the entirety or joint tenancy, shall be presumptive evidence of said

heirship, or of such survivorship, as therein recited, if such

instrument be duly acknowledged or witnessed and proved in any manner

required or permitted at the date of the execution thereof, and be duly

recorded in any county where any part of the lands described therein

shall be located, or duly recorded in the office of the secretary of

state of the state of New York.