New York Consolidated Laws, Real Property Actions and Proceedings Law - RPA § 851. Action against certain persons holding over as trespassers

A person in possession of real property as guardian or trustee for an infant, or having an estate determinable upon one or more lives, who holds over and continues in possession after the determination of his trust or particular estate, without the express consent of the person then immediately entitled, is a trespasser.  An action may be maintained against him or his executor or administrator, by the person so entitled, or his executor or administrator, to recover the full value of the profits received during the wrongful occupation.