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2016 New York Laws
DCD - Debtor & Creditor
Article 7 - (Debtor & Creditor) TRUSTEES FOR INSOLVENT AND IMPRISONED DEBTORS
173 - No discharge for defects of form.

NY Debt & Cred L § 173 (2016) What's This?
  173.  No discharge for defects of form. If any person so committed,
  shall bring a writ of habeas corpus,  he  shall  not  be  discharged  by
  reason  of  any  insufficiency in the form of the warrant of commitment;
  but the court before whom such person shall be brought, shall  re-commit
  such  person, unless it shall be made to appear that he has answered all
  lawful questions put to him, or had sufficient reason  for  refusing  to
  sign  the  examination,  as the case may be; or unless such person shall
  then answer, on oath, the questions so put to him.

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