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New York Real Property Actions and Proceedings Law Section 111 - Definitions.

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    § 111. Definitions. 1. As used in section 1641 of this chapter and in
  sections 1901 and 1911 of this chapter, the terms  "real  property"  and
  "lands"   are   co-extensive   in  meaning  with  lands,  tenements  and
  hereditaments.
    2. As used in section 1921, the term "real property"  includes  lands,
  tenements and hereditaments and chattels real, except a lease for a term
  not exceeding three years.
    3.  As  used  in  this  chapter the term "incompetent" or "incompetent
  person" means a person  incompetent  to  manage  his  affairs  of  whose
  property  a  committee has been appointed pursuant to section 78.03 or a
  person of whose property a committee  has  been  appointed  pursuant  to
  section 78.07 of the mental hygiene law.
    4. As used in this chapter the term "infant" or "minor" means a person
  who has not attained the age of eighteen years.
    5.  As  used  in  this  chapter, the term "conservatee" means a person
  under substantial impairment within the meaning of  the  conservatorship
  provisions of article seventy-seven of the mental hygiene law for whom a
  conservator has been appointed.

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