N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 11: Correction and confirmation of conveyances to religious corporations

§ 11. Correction and confirmation of conveyances to religious

corporations. If, in a conveyance of real property, or in any

instrument intended to operate as such, heretofore or hereafter made to

a religious corporation, its corporate name is not stated or is not

correctly stated, but such conveyance or instrument indicates the

intention of the grantor therein to convey such property to such

corporation, and such corporation has entered into possession and

occupation of such property, any officer of the corporation authorized

so to do by its trustees may record in the office where such conveyance

or instrument is recorded a statement, signed and acknowledged by him or

proved, setting forth the date of such conveyance or instrument, the

date of record and the number and page of the book of record thereof,

the name of the grantor, a description of the property conveyed or

intended to be conveyed, the name of the grantee as expressed in such

conveyance or instrument, the correct name of such corporation, the fact

of authorization by the trustees of the corporation, to make and record

such statement, and that the grantor in such conveyance or instrument

intended thereby to convey such property to such corporation as the said

officer verily believes, with the reason for such belief. Such statement

so signed and acknowledged or proved shall be recorded with the records

of deeds in such office, and indexed as a deed from the grantee as named

in such instrument or in such conveyance to such corporation. The

register or clerk, as the case may be, shall note the recording of such

statement on the margin of the record of such conveyance, and for his

services shall be entitled to receive the fees allowed for recording

deeds. Such statement so recorded shall be presumptive evidence that

such matters therein stated are true, and that such corporation was the

grantee in the original instrument or conveyance. All conveyances

heretofore made, or by any instrument intended to be made, to a

religious corporation of real property appropriated to the use of such

corporation, or entitled to be so appropriated, are hereby confirmed and

declared valid and effectual, notwithstanding any defect in the form of

the conveyance or the description of the grantee therein.