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2016 New York Laws
DCD - Debtor & Creditor
Article 3 - (Debtor & Creditor) INSOLVENT'S DISCHARGE FROM DEBTS
57 - Effect of consent where petitioner is a joint debtor.

NY Debt & Cred L § 57 (2016) What's This?
  57.  Effect  of  consent  where  petitioner  is  a  joint debtor. A
  creditor's consent does not affect his  remedy  against  any  person  or
  persons  indebted  jointly  with  the  petitioner;  and the petitioner's
  discharge has the effect, as between the creditor and  the  other  joint
  debtors,  of a composition between the petitioner and the creditor, made
  as prescribed in title one of article fifteen of the general obligations
  law.

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