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§ 1044 — SECTION 1044 Report thereupon

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What is NY RPAPL § 1044?

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This section outlines the requirements for commissioners regarding the preparation of a report on their proceedings related to property dower. The report must detail how the commissioners fulfilled their duties, including charges and descriptions of property portions. It applies to parties involved in property dower proceedings.

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§ 1044 SECTION 1044 Report thereupon

RPAPL § 1044

All the commissioners must meet together in the performance of any of their duties; but the acts of a majority so met are valid. The referee, or the commissioners, or a majority of them, must make a full report of their proceedings, specifying therein the manner in which they have discharged their trust, with the items of their charges, and a particular description of the portion admeasured and laid off to the plaintiff; or, if they report that it is not practicable, or, in their opinion, it is not for the best interests of all the parties concerned, to admeasure and lay off a distinct parcel of the property of which dower is to be admeasured, they must state the reasons for that opinion and all the facts relating thereto. The report must be acknowledged or proved, and certified, in like manner as a deed to be recorded, and must be filed in the office of the clerk.

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