New York Real Property Actions & Proceedings Law Section 522 - Essentials of adverse possession not under written instrument or judgment.

522. Essentials of adverse possession not under written instrument or judgment. For the purpose of constituting an adverse possession not founded upon a written instrument or a judgment or decree, land is deemed to have been possessed and occupied in either of the following cases, and no others:

1. Where there have been acts sufficiently open to put a reasonably diligent owner on notice.

2. Where it has been protected by a substantial enclosure, except as provided in subdivision one of section five hundred forty-three of this article.


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