New York Real Property Actions & Proceedings Law Article 8 - WASTE AND OTHER ACTIONS AND RIGHTS OF ACTION FOR INJURY TO REAL PROPERTY

• 801 - Who Liable to Action for Waste.
  An action for waste lies against a tenant by the curtesy, in dower, for life, or for years, or the assignee of such a tenant,...
• 803 - Alterations or Replacements of Structures by Person Having Estate for Life or Years.
  1. When a person having an estate for life or for years in land proposes to make an alteration in, or a replacement of a...
• 811 - Action for Waste by Heir, Devisee or Grantor of Reversion.
  An heir or devisee may maintain an action for waste, committed in time of his ancestor or testator, as well as in his own time....
• 812 - Action for Waste by Ward Against Guardian.
  Such an action may also be maintained against a guardian by his ward, either before or after the termination of the guardianship, for waste committed...
• 813 - Action for Waste by Grantee of Real Property Sold Under Execution.
  Where real property is sold by virtue of an execution, the person to whom a conveyance is executed pursuant to the sale may maintain an...
• 815 - Judgment in Action for Waste Against Tenant of Particular Estate.
  If the plaintiff recovers in an action for waste, other than an action brought as prescribed in section 817, the final judgment must award to...
• 817 - Action for Waste Against Joint Tenant or Tenant in Common.
  1. An action for waste may also be maintained by a joint tenant or tenant in common against his co-tenant who commits waste upon the...
• 821 - View in Action for Waste.
  In an action for waste it is not necessary, either upon the execution of a writ of inquiry or upon the trial of an issue...
• 831 - Action by Reversioner or Remainderman.
  A person seized of an estate in remainder or reversion may maintain an action founded upon an injury done to the inheritance, notwithstanding any intervening...
• 833 - Recovery of Fee Damages by the Owner of a Possessory Estate for Life or for Years.
  When the ownership of land is divided into a possessory estate for life or for years and one or more future interests, and a person...
• 841 - Action for Nuisance.
  An action for a nuisance may be maintained in any case where such an action might have been maintained under the laws in force immediately...
• 843 - Fences and Structures, When Private Nuisance.
  Whenever the owner or lessees of land shall erect or shall have erected thereon any fence or structure in the nature of a fence which...
• 851 - Action Against Certain Persons Holding Over As Trespassers.
  A person in possession of real property as guardian or trustee for an infant, or having an estate determinable upon one or more lives, who...
• 853 - Action for Forcible or Unlawful Entry or Detainer; Treble Damages.
  If a person is disseized, ejected, or put out of real property in a forcible or unlawful manner, or, after he has been put out,...
• 861 - Action for Cutting, Removing, Injuring or Destroying Trees or Timber, and Damaging Lands Thereon.
  1. If any person, without the consent of the owner thereof, cuts, removes, injures or destroys, or causes to be cut, removed, injured or destroyed,...
• 871 - Action for the Removal of Encroaching Structures.
  1. An action may be maintained by the owner of any legal estate in land for an injunction directing the removal of a structure encroaching...
• 881 - Access to Adjoining Property to Make Improvements or Repairs.
  When an owner or lessee seeks to make improvements or repairs to real property so situated that such improvements or repairs cannot be made by...

Last modified: February 3, 2019