N.Y. Real Property Actions & Proceedings Law § 1106: Habeas corpus

§ 1106. Habeas corpus. If it appears, by affidavit, to the

satisfaction of the court, that the person required to be produced is

imprisoned within the state, for any cause, except upon a sentence for a

felony, or is kept or detained, within the state, by any person, the

court may, either before or after making the order for production, issue

a writ of habeas corpus to bring him before it, or before the referee,

as the case requires. The writ must be served and executed, and

disobedience thereto may be punished, as where a writ of habeas corpus

is issued, to inquire into the cause of the detention of a prisoner.