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N.Y. Real Property Actions & Proceedings Law § 851: Action against certain persons holding over as trespassers

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  1. Real Property Actions & Proceedings Law
  2. Article 8. Waste and Other Actions and Rights of Action For Injury to Real Property

§ 851. Action against certain persons holding over as trespassers. A

person in possession of real property as guardian or trustee for an

infant, or having an estate determinable upon one or more lives, who

holds over and continues in possession after the determination of his

trust or particular estate, without the express consent of the person

then immediately entitled, is a trespasser. An action may be maintained

against him or his executor or administrator, by the person so entitled,

or his executor or administrator, to recover the full value of the

profits received during the wrongful occupation.

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