Section 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.