Section 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.