Severance
§ 407. Severance. The court may at any time order a severance of a particular claim, counterclaim or cross-claim, or as to a particular party, and order that, as to such claim or party, the special proceeding continue as an action or as a separate special proceeding.
The court may, at any time, sever a particular claim, counterclaim, cross-claim, or party, and order that the proceeding continue as an action or as a separate special proceeding. ★ (This is the escape hatch when a matter is too big for the summary format.)
Marked in the text: penalties, time limits, sums of money. Editorial emphasis added by this edition; it does not appear in the statute as enacted.
This provision appears in Volume 2 — The JG-22 CPLR and in Volume 1 — The JG-22 in Plain English.