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Excerpt from A Treatise: Common and Statute Law of the State of New York Relating to Insolvent Debtors, Including the Third, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, and Eighth Articles, of Title 1, Chap, 6, Part 2, of the Revised Statues, Law of Voluntary Assignments for the Benefit of CrThe purpose of this work is to present, in a convenient and harmonious form, the statutes and decisions of the State of New York, constituting what may be called the Insolvency System of the State.This plan includes a review of the various articles of the first title, of the sixth chapter, of the second part of the Re vised Statutes, relating to insolvent debtors, among which are embraced the important statute for the discharge of Insolvent Debtors from their debts, known as the Two-third Act, and also the statutes for the exoneration of insolvents from arrest and their discharge from imprisonment on execution in civil actions, the latter of which is sometimes called the Fourteen day Act.The scope of the work also covers a consideration of the law of general assignments for the benefit of creditors. This subject has of late been regulated to some extent by The General Assignment Act of The attempt is here made to present the law of assignments as expounded by our courts with a special view to that statute, and also to state and illustrate, as fully as the adjudged cases warrant, the practice under that act.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.