N.Y. Judiciary Law § 147: Holding special and trial terms

§ 147. Holding special and trial terms. A special term or a trial

term must be held by one judge, except that when private property

located within the city of New York shall be taken for public use by the

city of New York, the compensation to be made therefor shall be

ascertained by a special term for condemnation proceedings of the

supreme court. At least one special term and two trial terms must be

appointed to be held in each year in each county separately organized.

Two or more trial terms may be appointed to be held and may be held at

the same time in any county. Fulton and Hamilton counties shall be

deemed one county for the purposes of this section. A special term of

the supreme court may be adjourned to a future day, and to any place

within the judicial district, by an entry in the minutes. After the

discharge of the jury, a trial and special term may be adjourned in like

manner, for the trial of issues by the court. Any such adjourned term

may be further adjourned from time to time, as the justice holding the

same directs. Special terms may be held at the chambers of the justice

or elsewhere in the judicial district, but an action triable by the

court without a jury, which was upon the calendar of a term before it

was adjourned to the chambers of a justice under this section, may be

tried at the term so adjourned to chambers only by consent of both

parties.