N.Y. Const. art. I, § 14: 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have not since expired, or been repealed or altered; and such acts of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.