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NY Debt & Cred L § 138 (2021)
2021 New York Laws DCD - Debtor and Creditor Article 5 - Judgment Debtor's Discharge From Imprisonment 138 - Debtors to State or United States Not to Be Discharged.

§ 138. Debtors to state or United States not to be discharged. Neither   of  the  following  named persons shall be discharged from imprisonment,   under the provisions of this article:1. A person owing a debt or duty to the United States.2. A person owing a debt or duty to the state, for taxes or for  money   received  or  collected  by  any  person,  as  a  public officer or in a   fiduciary  capacity,  or  a  cause  of  action  specified   in   section   sixty-three-c  of  the executive law or a judgment recovered upon such a   cause of action.
NY Debt & Cred L § 139 (2021)
2021 New York Laws DCD - Debtor and Creditor Article 5 - Judgment Debtor's Discharge From Imprisonment 139 - Discharge on Application of Taxpayer.

§  139.  Discharge on application of taxpayer. Where a person has been   arrested by virtue of an execution  issued  upon  a  judgment  of  fifty   dollars  or  under,  and  has been kept imprisoned at the expense of the   county for six months or over, the court  out  of  which  the  execution   issued  may, on the application of a taxpayer of the county to which the   support is chargeable, and upon due proof of the service upon the person   in whose favor such execution was issued, of a notice in writing of  the   time  when  and the place where such application is to be made, at least   eight days before the making thereof  discharge  the  prisoner,  and  it   shall be the duty of the sheriff to forthwith release him from custody.
NY Debt & Cred L § 151 (2021)
2021 New York Laws DCD - Debtor and Creditor Article 6-A - Right of Set Off Against Unmatured Debts 151 - Right of Set Off Against Unmatured Debts.

§  151.  Right  of set off against unmatured debts. Every debtor shall have the right upon:  (a) the filing of a petition  under  any  of  the  provisions  of  the federal  bankruptcy act or amendments thereto or the commencement of any proceeding under any foreign bankruptcy, insolvency,  debtor  relief  or other similar statute or body of law, by or against a creditor;  (b)  the  making of an assignment by a creditor for the benefit of its creditors;  (c) the application for the appointment, or the  appointment,  of  any receiver of, or of any of the property of a creditor;  (d)  the  issuance  of  any execution against any of the property of a creditor;  (e) the issuance of a subpoena or order, in supplementary proceedings, against or with respect to any of the property of a creditor; or  (f) the issuance of  a  warrant  of  attachment  against  any  of  the property of a creditor, to  set  off  and  apply  against  any  indebtedness, whether matured or unmatured, of such creditor to such debtor, any amount owing  from  such debtor  to  such creditor, at or at any time after, the happening of any of the above mentioned events, and the aforesaid right of set off may be exercised by such debtor against such creditor or against any trustee in bankruptcy, debtor in possession, assignee for the benefit of creditors, receiver or execution, judgment or attachment creditor of such creditor, or against anyone else claiming through or against such creditor or such trustee in bankruptcy, debtor in possession, assignee for the benefit of creditors, receivers, or execution,  judgment  or  attachment  creditor, notwithstanding  the fact that such right of set off shall not have been exercised by such debtor prior to the making,  filing  or  issuance,  or service  upon  such  debtor  of,  or  of  notice  of, any such petition; assignment for the benefit of creditors; appointment or application  for the  appointment  of  a  receiver; or issuance of execution, subpoena or order or warrant.
NY Debt & Cred L § 160 (2021)
2021 New York Laws DCD - Debtor and Creditor Article 7 - Trustees for Insolvent and Imprisoned Debtors 160 - Trustees for Creditors.

§  160.  Trustees  for  creditors.  All  trustees, appointed under any   authority, conferred by articles three, four and five of  this  chapter,   in  the  several  cases  therein contemplated, are hereby declared to be   trustees of the estate of the debtor, in relation to whose property they   shall be appointed, for the benefit  of  his  creditors;  and  shall  be   vested  with  all  the  powers  and authority hereinafter specified, and   shall be  subject  to  the  control,  obligations  and  responsibilities   hereinafter declared.
NY Debt & Cred L § 161 (2021)
2021 New York Laws DCD - Debtor and Creditor Article 7 - Trustees for Insolvent and Imprisoned Debtors 161 - Sole Trustee.

§  161.  Sole trustee.   When one trustee only shall be appointed, all   the provisions herein contained, in reference to several trustees, shall   apply to him.
NY Debt & Cred L § 162 (2021)
2021 New York Laws DCD - Debtor and Creditor Article 7 - Trustees for Insolvent and Imprisoned Debtors 162 - Two or More Trustees.

§  162.  Two  or  more trustees. When there are more trustees than one   appointed, the debts and property of the debtor  may  be  collected  and   received  by  any one of them; and when there are more than two trustees   appointed, every power and authority conferred by this  chapter  on  the   trustees, may be exercised by any two of them.
NY Debt & Cred L § 163 (2021)
2021 New York Laws DCD - Debtor and Creditor Article 7 - Trustees for Insolvent and Imprisoned Debtors 163 - Death of Trustee; Survivor or Successor.

§  163.  Death  of  trustee;  survivor  or  successor. The survivor or   survivors of any trustee, shall have all the powers and rights given  by   this  chapter  to  trustees. All property in the hands of any trustee at   the time of his death, removal or incapacity, shall be delivered to  the   remaining  trustee  or trustees, if there be any; or to the successor of   the one so dying, removed or incapacitated; who may demand and  sue  for   the same.
NY Debt & Cred L § 164 (2021)
2021 New York Laws DCD - Debtor and Creditor Article 7 - Trustees for Insolvent and Imprisoned Debtors 164 - Trustees' Oath.

§  164.  Trustees'  oath. Before proceeding to the discharge of any of   their duties, all such trustees shall take and subscribe an  oath,  that   they  will well and truly execute the trust by their appointment reposed   in them, according to the best of their skill and  understanding;  which   oath shall be filed with the court that appointed them.
NY Debt & Cred L § 165 (2021)
2021 New York Laws DCD - Debtor and Creditor Article 7 - Trustees for Insolvent and Imprisoned Debtors 165 - Vesting of Property in Trustees.

§ 165. Vesting of property in trustees. The trustees taking such oath,   shall  be  deemed vested with all the estate, real and personal, of such   debtor, except such as is exempted by articles three, four and five from   the execution of the assignment, in said articles directed.
NY Debt & Cred L § 166 (2021)
2021 New York Laws DCD - Debtor and Creditor Article 7 - Trustees for Insolvent and Imprisoned Debtors 166 - Powers of Trustees.

§ 166. Powers of trustees. The said trustees shall have power:1. To sue in their own names or otherwise, and recover all the estate,   debts and things in action, belonging or due to such debtor, in the same   manner  and with the like effect as such debtor might or could have done   if no trustees had been appointed, and no set-off shall  be  allowed  in   any  such  suit,  for any debt, unless it was owing to such creditor, by   such debtor, before presenting the petition of the insolvent under  said   articles.  But  no  suit  in  equity  shall  be  brought by assignees of   insolvents under the third or fourth articles, without  the  consent  of   the  creditors  having  a  major part of the debts which shall have been   exhibited and allowed,  unless  the  sum  in  controversy  exceeds  five   hundred dollars;2.  To  take  into their hands, all the estate of such debtor, whether   delivered to them, or afterwards discovered; and all books, vouchers and   securities relating to the same;3. From time to time, to sell at public auction, all the estate,  real   and  personal,  vested  in  them, which shall come to their hands, after   giving at least fourteen days' public notice of the time  and  place  of   sale, and also publishing the same for two weeks in a newspaper, printed   in the county, where the sale shall be made, if there be one;4.  To allow such credit on the sale of real property by them, as they   shall deem reasonable, not exceeding eighteen months, for not more  than   three-fourths  of the purchase money; which credit shall be secured by a   bond or note of the purchaser, and a mortgage on the property sold;5. On such sales, to execute the necessary conveyances  and  bills  of   sale;6.  To  redeem  all  real  or  personal property subject to a security   interest or mortgage, and to satisfy  any  judgments  which  may  be  an   incumbrance  on  any  property so sold by them; or to sell such property   subject to such mortgages, security interests or judgments;7. To settle all matters and accounts between  such  debtor,  and  his   debtors,  or  creditors, and to examine any person touching such matters   and accounts, on oath, to be administered by either of them;8. Under the order of the court appointing them, to compound with  any   person  indebted  to such debtor, and thereupon to discharge all demands   against such person.
NY Debt & Cred L § 167 (2021)
2021 New York Laws DCD - Debtor and Creditor Article 7 - Trustees for Insolvent and Imprisoned Debtors 167 - Notice to Debtors, Bailees and Creditors.

§  167.  Notice  to  debtors,  bailees  and  creditors.  The trustees,   immediately upon their appointment, shall give  notice  thereof  for  at   least  three  weeks  in  a  newspaper  published  in  the  county  where   application was made and therein shall require:1. All persons indebted to such debtor,  by  a  day  and  at  a  place   therein  to  be specified, to render an account of all debts and sums of   money owing by them respectively, to such trustees, and to pay the same;2. All persons having in their possession any property or  effects  of   such  debtor,  to  deliver  the  same to the said trustees by the day so   appointed;3. All the creditors  of  such  debtor  to  deliver  their  respective   accounts  and  demands  to  the  trustees or one of them, by a day to be   therein specified, not less than forty days from the  first  publication   of such notice.
NY Debt & Cred L § 168 (2021)
2021 New York Laws DCD - Debtor and Creditor Article 7 - Trustees for Insolvent and Imprisoned Debtors 168 - Power to Sue Notwithstanding Notice.

§  168.  Power to sue notwithstanding notice. Notwithstanding any such   notice, the trustees may sue for and recover, any property or effects of   the debtor, and any debts due to  him,  at  any  time,  before  the  day   appointed for the delivery or payment thereof.
NY Debt & Cred L § 169 (2021)
2021 New York Laws DCD - Debtor and Creditor Article 7 - Trustees for Insolvent and Imprisoned Debtors 169 - Forfeiture for Failure to Comply With Notice.

§  169.  Forfeiture  for  failure  to comply with notice. Every person   indebted to such debtor, or having the  possession  or  custody  of  any   property  or  thing  in  action, belonging to him, who shall conceal the   same, and not deliver a just and true account of such  indebtedness,  or   not  deliver such property or thing in action, to the trustees or one of   them, by the day for that purpose appointed, shall  forfeit  double  the   amount  of such debt, or double the value of such property so concealed;   which penalties may be recovered by the trustees.
NY Debt & Cred L § 170 (2021)
2021 New York Laws DCD - Debtor and Creditor Article 7 - Trustees for Insolvent and Imprisoned Debtors 170 - Warrant on Withholding Account or Property.

§  170.  Warrant  on  withholding  account  or  property. Whenever the   trustees shall show by their own oath, or other competent proof, to  the   satisfaction  of  any  judge  of a county court, or in the county of New   York any justice of the supreme court, that  there  is  good  reason  to   believe  that  the debtor, the spouse of the debtor, or any other person   has concealed or embezzled any part of the estate of such debtor  vested   in  the  said  trustees;  or  that any person can testify concerning the   concealment or embezzlement thereof; or that any person  who  shall  not   have  rendered an account as above required, is indebted to such debtor,   or has property in his or her custody or possession, belonging  to  such   debtor;  such  judge  or  justice  shall issue a warrant, commanding any   sheriff or constable, to cause such debtor, the spouse of the debtor, or   other person, to be brought before him at such  time  and  place  as  he   shall appoint, for the purpose of being examined.
NY Debt & Cred L § 171 (2021)
2021 New York Laws DCD - Debtor and Creditor Article 7 - Trustees for Insolvent and Imprisoned Debtors 171 - Examination of Person Arrested.

§  171.  Examination  of person arrested. The judge or justice issuing   such warrant, shall examine every person so brought before him, on oath,   in the presence of the trustees or any of  them,  touching  all  matters   relative  to  the  debtor,  his  dealings  and  estate, and touching the   detention or concealment of any part of his property, and  touching  the   indebtedness  of  any  person  to  such  debtor;  and  shall  reduce the   examination to writing; which the person so examined is hereby  required   to sign, and which shall be attested by the judge or justice.
NY Debt & Cred L § 172 (2021)
2021 New York Laws DCD - Debtor and Creditor Article 7 - Trustees for Insolvent and Imprisoned Debtors 172 - Imprisonment for Contumacy.

§  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.
NY Debt & Cred L § 173 (2021)
2021 New York Laws DCD - Debtor and Creditor Article 7 - Trustees for Insolvent and Imprisoned Debtors 173 - No Discharge for Defects of Form.

§  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.
NY Debt & Cred L § 174 (2021)
2021 New York Laws DCD - Debtor and Creditor Article 7 - Trustees for Insolvent and Imprisoned Debtors 174 - Penalties for Connivance at Escape.

§  174.  Penalties for connivance at escape. Any sheriff, constable or   jailer wilfully suffering  any  person  so  committed  or  re-committed,   pursuant to the foregoing sections, to escape, on conviction thereof, in   addition to any other punishment the court may inflict, shall forfeit to   the  trustees  a  sum  equal  to  the  whole  amount of debts due to the   creditors of such  debtor,  not  exceeding  two  thousand  five  hundred   dollars.
NY Debt & Cred L § 175 (2021)
2021 New York Laws DCD - Debtor and Creditor Article 7 - Trustees for Insolvent and Imprisoned Debtors 175 - Effect of Answers on Examination.

§  175.  Effect of answers on examination. The person so examined, and   answering to the satisfaction of the court, shall not be liable  to  any   penalty  imposed  for  concealing  and  not  delivering any property, or   paying any debt; but his answers on such examination, may  be  given  in   evidence in the same manner, and with the like effect, as if he had been   examined  by  such trustees in an action brought by them against him for   the recovery of such property or debt.
NY Debt & Cred L § 176 (2021)
2021 New York Laws DCD - Debtor and Creditor Article 7 - Trustees for Insolvent and Imprisoned Debtors 176 - Reward to Informers.

§  176.  Reward  to  informers.  Any  person who shall discover to the   trustees any secreted effects, property or things in  action,  belonging   to  such  debtor,  so  that  they  shall  be recovered by them, shall be   entitled to ten dollars on the hundred dollars, and at that rate, on the   value of the effects so discovered, to be paid by the trustees,  out  of   the  estate of such debtor; but this section shall not extend to persons   who have such property, effects or things, in their own possession.
NY Debt & Cred L § 177 (2021)
2021 New York Laws DCD - Debtor and Creditor Article 7 - Trustees for Insolvent and Imprisoned Debtors 177 - Reference of Disputed Claims.

§  177.  Reference  of disputed claims. If any controversy shall arise   between the trustees and any other  person  in  the  settlement  of  any   demands against such debtor, or of debts due his estate, the same may be   referred  to  one or more indifferent persons, who may be agreed upon by   the trustees and the party with whom such controversy shall exist, by  a   writing to that effect signed by them.
NY Debt & Cred L § 178 (2021)
2021 New York Laws DCD - Debtor and Creditor Article 7 - Trustees for Insolvent and Imprisoned Debtors 178 - Application for Appointment of Referee.

§  178.  Application  for  appointment  of referee. If such referee or   referees be not selected by agreement, then the trustees  or  the  other   party  to  the controversy, provided no action at law is pending arising   out of any such debts or demands, may serve a notice of their  intention   to  apply  to  a judge of the court which appointed said trustees, or to   any justice of the supreme court  at  chambers,  residing  in  the  same   district  with  said  trustees,  for  the  appointment  of  one  or more   referees, specifying the time and place when such  application  will  be   made,  which notice shall be served at least ten days before the time so   therein specified.
NY Debt & Cred L § 179 (2021)
2021 New York Laws DCD - Debtor and Creditor Article 7 - Trustees for Insolvent and Imprisoned Debtors 179 - Appointment of Referee.

§ 179. Appointment of referee. On the day so specified, upon due proof   of  the  service  of  such  notice, the judge or justice before whom the   application is made may in his discretion proceed to select one or  more   referees, the same in all respects as they are now selected according to   the rules and practice of the supreme court.
NY Debt & Cred L § 180 (2021)
2021 New York Laws DCD - Debtor and Creditor Article 7 - Trustees for Insolvent and Imprisoned Debtors 180 - Entry of Order of Reference.

§  180. Entry of order of reference. The judge or justice by whom they   shall be  selected,  shall  certify  such  selection  in  writing.  Such   certificate,  or the written agreement of the parties, shall be filed by   the trustees in the office of the clerk where the order  appointing  the   trustees  is  entered;  and  an order shall thereupon be entered by such   clerk appointing the persons  so  selected  referees  to  determine  the   controversy.
NY Debt & Cred L § 181 (2021)
2021 New York Laws DCD - Debtor and Creditor Article 7 - Trustees for Insolvent and Imprisoned Debtors 181 - Powers, Duties and Compensation of Referees.

§  181.  Powers,  duties  and  compensation of referees. Such referees   shall have the same powers, and  be  subject  to  the  like  duties  and   obligations,  and  shall  receive  the  same  compensation,  as referees   appointed by the supreme court, in actions pending therein.
NY Debt & Cred L § 182 (2021)
2021 New York Laws DCD - Debtor and Creditor Article 7 - Trustees for Insolvent and Imprisoned Debtors 182 - Filing and Effect of Referees' Report.

§  182.  Filing  and  effect  of  referees'  report. The report of the   referees shall be filed in the same office where  the  order  for  their   appointment  was  entered,  and shall be conclusive on the rights of the   parties, if not set aside by the court.
NY Debt & Cred L § 183 (2021)
2021 New York Laws DCD - Debtor and Creditor Article 7 - Trustees for Insolvent and Imprisoned Debtors 183 - Commission to Take Testimony Out of County.

§ 183. Commission to take testimony out of county. When any witness to   such  controversy shall reside out of the county where the said trustees   resided at the time  of  their  appointment,  the  referee  or  referees   appointed  to  hear  said  controversy  shall  have  power  to  issue  a   commission or commissions in like manner as justices of  the  peace  are   now  authorized  to  issue the same, and the testimony so taken shall be   returned to said referee or referees in the same  manner,  and  be  read   before  them  on  a  hearing,  in  like  manner  as  testimony  taken on   commission before justices of the peace.
NY Debt & Cred L § 184 (2021)
2021 New York Laws DCD - Debtor and Creditor Article 7 - Trustees for Insolvent and Imprisoned Debtors 184 - Sale of Property and Accounts of Trustees.

§  184. Sale of property and accounts of trustees. The trustees shall,   as speedily as possible, convert the estate, real and personal, of  such   debtor,  into  money.  They  shall  keep a regular account of all moneys   received by them as trustees; to which, every creditor, or other  person   interested  therein,  shall  be  at liberty, at all reasonable times, to   have recourse.
NY Debt & Cred L § 185 (2021)
2021 New York Laws DCD - Debtor and Creditor Article 7 - Trustees for Insolvent and Imprisoned Debtors 185 - Meeting of Creditors and Notice Thereof.

§  185.  Meeting of creditors and notice thereof. The trustees, within   fifteen months from the time of their appointment, shall call a  general   meeting  of the creditors of such debtor, by a notice to be published in   the same manner, as hereinbefore directed respecting the publication  of   the notice of their appointment; in which notice, they shall specify the   place  and time of such meeting, which time shall not be more than three   months, nor less than two months after the  first  publication  of  such   notice. Every such notice shall be published at least once in each week,   until the time of such meeting.
NY Debt & Cred L § 186 (2021)
2021 New York Laws DCD - Debtor and Creditor Article 7 - Trustees for Insolvent and Imprisoned Debtors 186 - Proceedings at Creditors' Meetings.

§  186.  Proceedings at creditors' meetings. At such meeting, or other   adjourned meeting thereafter, all accounts and demands, for and  against   the  estate of such debtor, shall be fairly adjusted, as far as the same   can be ascertained, and the  amount  of  moneys  in  the  hands  of  the   trustees declared.
NY Debt & Cred L § 187 (2021)
2021 New York Laws DCD - Debtor and Creditor Article 7 - Trustees for Insolvent and Imprisoned Debtors 187 - Payment of Disbursements and Commissions of Trustees.

§  187.  Payment  of disbursements and commissions of trustees. Out of   the moneys in their  hands,  the  trustees  may  first  deduct  all  the   necessary disbursements made by them in the discharge of their duty, and   a commission at the rate of five per centum on the whole sum which shall   have come into their hands.