N.Y. RPP Law § 256
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Construction of grant in executor's or trustee's deed of appurtenances, and of the estate of testator and grantor
Official statutory text
§ 256. Construction of grant in executor's or trustee's deed of\nappurtenances, and of the estate of testator and grantor. In any deed\nby an executor of, or trustee under a will, the words "together with the\nappurtenances and also all the estate which the said testator had at the\ntime of his decease in said premises, and also the estate therein which\nsaid grantor has or has power to convey or dispose of, whether\nindividually or by virtue of said will or otherwise," must be construed\nas meaning, together with all and singular the tenements, hereditaments\nand appurtenances thereunto belonging, or in anywise appertaining, and\nthe reversion and reversions, remainder and remainders, rents, issues\nand profits thereof; and also all the estate, right, title, interest,\nproperty, possession, claim and demand whatsoever, both in law and\nequity, which the said testator had in his lifetime, and at the time of\nhis decease, or which the said grantor has or has power to convey or\ndispose of, whether individually or by virtue of the said last will and\ntestament or otherwise, of, in and to the said granted premises, and\nevery part and parcel thereof, with the appurtenances.\n
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