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    SECTION 5209

    Discharge of garnishee's obligation

    Civil Practice Law & Rules (CVP) CHAPTER 8, ARTICLE 52

    § 5209. Discharge of garnishee's obligation. A person who, pursuant
    to an execution or order, pays or delivers, to the judgment creditor or
    a sheriff or receiver, money or other personal property in which a
    judgment debtor has or will have an interest, or so pays a debt he owes
    the judgment debtor, is discharged from his obligation to the judgment
    debtor to the extent of the payment or delivery.