Terms Used In N.Y. Surrogates Court Procedure Law 2219

  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • Personal property: All property that is not real property.
  • Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.

Where there is a surplus of personal property to be distributed and the advancement as provided in EPTL 2-1.5 consisted of personal property or where a deficiency in the adjustment of an advancement of real property is chargeable on personal property, the decree for distribution in the court must adjust all the advances which have not been previously adjusted by a court of competent jurisdiction and if any person to be affected by the decree is not a party to the proceeding the court must cause him to be brought in by supplemental process.