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SECTION 57

Effect of consent where petitioner is a joint debtor

Debtor & Creditor (DCD) CHAPTER 12, ARTICLE 3

§ 57. Effect of consent where petitioner is a joint debtor. A
creditor's consent does not affect his remedy against any person or
persons indebted jointly with the petitioner; and the petitioner's
discharge has the effect, as between the creditor and the other joint
debtors, of a composition between the petitioner and the creditor, made
as prescribed in title one of article fifteen of the general obligations
law.