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...

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New York Code › Act SCP › Article 7 › Section 705

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§ 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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