2006 New York Code - When Discharge To Be Granted; Effect Thereof.

 
  § 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.