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N.Y. DCD Law § 103

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Petitioner's affidavit

Official statutory text

§ 103. Petitioner's affidavit. An affidavit, in the following form,\nsubscribed and taken by the petitioner, before the county judge, or, in\nthe city of New York, before a justice of the supreme court, must be\nannexed to the schedule:\n "I, ---------, do swear" (or "affirm," as the case may be,) "that the\nmatters of fact, stated in the schedule hereto annexed, are, in all\nrespects, just and true; that I have not, at any time, or in any manner\nwhatsoever, disposed of or made over any part of my property, not exempt\nby express provision of law from levy and sale by virtue of an\nexecution, for the future benefit of myself or my family, or disposed of\nor made over any part of my property, in order to defraud any of my\ncreditors; and that I have not paid, secured to be paid, or in any way\ncompounded with, any of my creditors, with a view that they or any of\nthem should abstain from opposing my discharge."\n

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