N.Y. SCP Law § 705
This is the official text of N.Y. SCP Law § 705, part of New York’s SCP Law — part of the compiled statutory law of New York, published by the state as "SCP Law." Browse the sections below, each linked to its official government source.
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Time, how reckoned upon successive letters Where it is prescribed by law that an act must or may be done within a specified time after le...
Official statutory text
§ 705. Time, how reckoned upon successive letters\n Where it is prescribed by law that an act must or may be done within a\nspecified time after letters are issued and successive or supplementary\nletters are issued upon the same estate, the time so specified must be\nreckoned from the issuing of the first letters, except where it is\notherwise specially prescribed by law or where the first or any\nsubsequent letters are revoked as provided in 1413.\n
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