341 - Recitals as to heirships in conveyances.

§  341.  Recitals  as  to  heirships in conveyances. Hereafter, in any  special proceeding or action in any of the courts  of  this  state,  any  deed,  mortgage,  lease,  release, power of attorney or other instrument  more than ten years old, executed for the purpose  of  transferring  the  title  to  or  interest  in  lands,  tenements or hereditaments situated  within this state, which contains recitals that the grantors,  grantees,  or  either,  or both, are the heirs at law of a prior owner of the title  or interest described in said instrument, or a survivor of a tenancy  by  the  entirety  or  joint  tenancy, shall be presumptive evidence of said  heirship,  or  of  such  survivorship,  as  therein  recited,  if   such  instrument  be  duly  acknowledged or witnessed and proved in any manner  required or permitted at the date of the execution thereof, and be  duly  recorded  in  any  county  where any part of the lands described therein  shall be located, or duly recorded in the office  of  the  secretary  of  state of the state of New York.