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### Committal for refusing to obey or for prevarication. N.S.W., s. 31. (9.) If any person at any examination, being thereto required and not having any lawful excuse, refuses to surrender any book, document, or writing relating to the estate, or refuses to be sworn, or to answer any lawful question touching any of the matters aforesaid, or to sign the notes of his examination, the Court or magistrate may commit him to prison, there to remain, until he has done the thing so required of him, or is discharged by the Court or magistrate. (10.) If any person while under examination is guilty of prevarication or evasion, the Court or magistrate may commit him to prison for any term not exceeding fourteen days.