2021 New York Laws
JUD - Judiciary
Article 5 - Supreme Court
140-B - General Jurisdiction of Supreme Court.

Universal Citation: NY Jud L § 140-B (2021)

§ 140-b. General jurisdiction of supreme court. The general jurisdiction in law and equity which the supreme court possesses under the provisions of the constitution includes all the jurisdiction which was possessed and exercised by the supreme court of the colony of New York at any time, and by the court of chancery in England on the fourth day of July, seventeen hundred seventy-six, with the exceptions, additions and limitations created and imposed by the constitution and laws of the state. Subject to those exceptions and limitations the supreme court of the state has all the powers and authority of each of those courts and may exercise them in like manner.


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