Stewart v. Underwood

How courts have described this case

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• holding that effect of bankruptcy discharge under Arizona law is “not an extin-guishment of the debt, but only a bar to enforcement of the debt as a personal obligation of the debtor”
• holding that effect of bankruptcy discharge under Arizona law is Anot an extinguishment of the debt, but only a bar to enforcement of the debt as a personal obligation of the debtor@
• holding that effect of discharge of debt under Bankruptcy Code is the same as it was under the 1898 Bankruptcy Act; it is not an extinguishment of the debt, but only a bar to enforcement of the debt as a personal obligation of the debt- or
• noting a secured creditor may join the bankruptcy proceeding or \wait and enforce his rights after the automatic bankruptcy stay is terminated\
• rejecting debtor’s argument that mortgage was rendered “null and void” because personal debt discharged in bankruptcy; holding discharge did not extinguish debt, but only barred subsequent actions against debtor personally
• discharge under the Code is “a bar to enforcement of the debt as a personal obligation of the debtor”

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