2006 New York Code - Common law and acts of the state legislatures.

 
    § 14. Such parts of the common law, and of the acts of the legislature
  of  the  colony  of  New  York, as together did form the law of the said
  colony, on the nineteenth day  of  April,  one  thousand  seven  hundred
  seventy-five,  and  the  resolutions of the congress of the said colony,
  and of the convention of  the  State  of  New  York,  in  force  on  the
  twentieth  day of April, one thousand seven hundred seventy-seven, which
  have not since expired, or been repealed or altered; and  such  acts  of
  the legislature of this state as are now in force, shall be and continue
  the  law  of  this state, subject to such alterations as the legislature
  shall make concerning the same. But all such parts of  the  common  law,
  and  such  of  the said acts, or parts thereof, as are repugnant to this
  constitution, are hereby abrogated.