N.Y. Public Lands Law § 11

§ 11. Power to confirm defective grant. Whenever a sale is lawfully\nmade, or directed to be made by the commissioner of general services, or\nhas been made by his predecessor, the board of commissioners of the land\noffice, including a sale of land under water, if, at the time of the\nmaking of the grant, the necessary jurisdictional facts existed to\nauthorize the grant, and by reason of accidental omission or manifest\nerror, the patent is not acutally issued, or has been issued to the\napplicant deficient or manifestly erroneous in description or otherwise,\nthe commissioner may, in his discretion, and on such terms as seem to\nhim proper, cause to be issued to such applicant, or to persons deriving\nclaim or title from him subsequently to the making of the grant, a\nrelease or confirmatory grant of such lands or any parts thereof, which\nrelease or confirmatory grant shall vest in the grantee therein named\nsuch right and estate, to the extent of the right or title of the state\nin such lands, or parts thereof, as is therein named.\n