New York Debtor & Creditor Law Section 136 - Creditor may notify debtor to apply for discharge.

136. Creditor may notify debtor to apply for discharge. Where a person has been imprisoned by virtue of an execution, for the space of three months after he was entitled, by the provisions of this article, to apply for a discharge; and has neither made such an application, nor applied for his discharge under the provisions of article third of this chapter; the judgment creditor, by virtue of whose execution he is imprisoned, may serve upon the prisoner a written notice, requiring him to apply for his discharge, according to the provisions of this article.


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