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2016 New York Laws
DCD - Debtor & Creditor
Article 7 - (Debtor & Creditor) TRUSTEES FOR INSOLVENT AND IMPRISONED DEBTORS
172 - Imprisonment for contumacy.

NY Debt & Cred L § 172 (2016) What's This?
  172.  Imprisonment  for  contumacy. If any person so brought before
  such  judge  or  justice,  shall  refuse  to  be  sworn,  or  to  answer
  satisfactorily, all lawful questions put to him, or shall refuse to sign
  the  examination,  not  having  a  reasonable  objection  thereto, to be
  allowed by such judge or justice, the judge or justice shall by  warrant
  commit  such  person  to  prison, there to remain without bail, until he
  shall submit to be sworn or to answer  as  required,  or  to  sign  such
  examination;  in  which  warrant  the  particular  default of the person
  committed shall be  specified;  and  if  it  be  in  not  answering  any
  question, such question shall also be specified therein.

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