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. The grantor of a reversion may maintain an action for waste committed before he aliened the same.
New York Legal Code
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. The grantor of a reversion may maintain an action for waste committed before he aliened the same.