How to Collect a Doctor BillDavis, Franklyn Pierre
Science
How to Collect a Doctor Bill
Davis, Franklyn Pierre
Collecting of accounts; Jurisprudence; Medicine -- Practice -- Management
The following property is exempt from execution for any debt, except it
be for the purchase price of such property, or a debt secured by
mortgage, lien or pledge thereon, to wit: 1st. Chairs, tables, desks and
books, to the value of two hundred dollars. 2d. Necessary household,
table and kitchen furniture of the debtor, including one sewing machine,
stoves, stove pipes and stove furniture, wearing apparel, beds, bedding,
bedsteads, hanging pictures, oil paintings and drawings drawn or painted
by any member of the family, family portraits and their necessary
frames, provisions and fuel actually provided for individual or family
use sufficient for three months, and three cows and their sucking
calves, four hogs with their sucking pigs, and food for such cows and
hogs for one month; also one rifle, one shotgun, one piano. 3d. Farming
utensils, or implements of husbandry, not exceeding in value one
thousand dollars, of the judgment debtor, also two oxen, or two horses,
or two mules and their harness, one cart or buggy, and two wagons, and
food for such animals for one month, also seed grain or vegetables
reserved or on hand for planting within six months, not exceeding two
hundred dollars in value; and seventy-five beehives, and one horse and
vehicle belonging to any person who is maimed or crippled, the same
being necessary to his business. 4th. Tools or implements of a mechanic
or artisan, notary's seal, office furniture and records; instruments and
library and necessary office furniture of a surgeon, physician,
surveyor or dentist, necessary to the exercise of their profession;
books, professional libraries and office furniture of attorneys, judges,
ministers of the gospel, editors, and school and music teachers, and all
the indexes, abstracts, books, papers, maps and office furniture of
searcher of records necessary to be used in his profession, and
instruments actually used by music teachers in giving instructions; also
typewriters used by owner in making his living, also one bicycle. 5th. A
miner's cabin, not exceeding five hundred dollars in value, also his
sluices, pipes, tools, etc., necessary for his business, not exceeding
five hundred dollars in value, and two horses, mules, or oxen, and their
harness, and food for the same for one month, when necessary to be used
for any windlass, derrick, car, pump, or hoisting gear; and the miner's
claim worked by him, and not exceeding one thousand dollars in value.
6th. Two oxen, horses, or mules and their harness and food for one
month, and one cart, wagon, dray, truck, coupe, hack, or carriage for
one or two horses, by the use of which a cartman, drayman, truckman,
huckster, peddler, hackman, teamster, or other laborer habitually earns
his living, and one horse, vehicle, and harness used by physician,
surgeon, constable, or minister of the gospel in the legitimate practice
of his profession or business, with food for such animal for one month.
7th.
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