State Codes and Statutes
Statutes > New-york > Dcd > Article-4 > 107§ 107. When discharge to be granted; effect thereof. Upon the production by the petitioner, of the certificates of the trustee or trustees, and the county clerk, to the effect prescribed in section seventy-nine of this chapter, the court must grant to the petitioner a discharge, declaring that the petitioner is forever thereafter exempted from arrest or imprisonment, by reason of any debt due at the time of making the assignment, or contracted before that time, though payable afterwards; or by reason of any liability incurred by him, by making or indorsing a promissory note, or by accepting, drawing, or indorsing a bill of exchange, before the execution of the assignment; or in consequence of the payment, by any party to such a note or bill, of the whole or any part of the money secured thereby, whether the payment is made before or after the execution of the assignment, with the exceptions specified in section one hundred and thirty-eight of this chapter. The discharge shall have the effect therein declared, as prescribed in this section.
