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Act No. 1956 Section 69

Section 69

SEC. 69. A discharge, duly granted under this Act, shall, with the exceptions aforesaid, release the debtor from all claims, debts, liabilities, and demands set forth in his schedule, or which were or might have been proved against his estate in insolvency, and may be pleaded by a simple averment that on the day of its date such discharge was granted to him, setting forth the same in full, and the same shall be a complete bar to all suits brought on any such debts, claims, liabilities, or demands, and the certificate shall be prima facie evidence in favor of such fact and of the regularity of such discharge; Provided, however, That any creditor whose debt charge was proved or provable against the estate in insolvency who shallot fraud, see fit to contest, the validity of such discharge on the ground that it was fraudulently obtained and who has discovered the facts constituting the subsequent to the discharge, may, at any time within one year after the date thereof, apply to the court which granted it to set it aside and annul the same.

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