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 shall be exempted and not liable to be taken by
warrant or execution, namely: of the property of any person, his
necessary apparel and bedding, and household furniture necessary for
supporting life, arms, militia equipments, uniforms, or musical
instruments owned by any member of the militia for military purposes,
any pension moneys received from the United States while in the hands of
the pensioner, implements of the debtor's trade, his library not
exceeding five hundred dollars in value, one cow not exceeding one
hundred and fifty dollars in value, any number of sheep not exceeding
ten nor exceeding in all one hundred and fifty dollars in value, two
swine and two hundred pounds of pork, and poultry not exceeding
twenty-five dollars in value; of the property of any one person having a
wife or family, twenty-five bushels of charcoal, two tons of other coal,
two hundred pounds of wheat flour, two cord of wood, two tons of hay,
two hundred pounds each of beef and fish, five bushels each of potatoes
and turnips, ten bushels each of Indian corn and rye, and the meal or
flour manufactured therefrom, twenty pounds each of wool and flax, or
the yarn or cloth made therefrom; the horse of any practicing physician
or surgeon of a value not exceeding two hundred dollars, and his saddle,
bridle, harness, buggy, and bicycle; one boat owned by one person and
used by him in the business of planting or taking oyster or clams, or
taking shad, together with the sails, tackle, rigging and implements
used in said business not exceeding in value two hundred dollars; one
sewing-machine, being the property of any one person using it or having
a family; one pew, being the property of any person having a family, who
ordinarily occupy it; and lots in any burying ground appropriated by its
proprietors for the burial of any person or family. So much of any debt
which has accrued by reason of the personal services of the debtor as
shall not exceed twenty-five dollars, including wages due for the
personal services of any minor child under the age of twenty-one years,
shall be exempted and not liable to be taken by foreign attachment or
execution.
Any person owning and actually occupying any dwelling and real estate
can file for record, in same manner as a deed, a declaration that he
occupies and intends to occupy said dwelling and real estate as a
homestead, and from the filing such declaration said property, to the
value of one thousand dollars, shall be exempt from execution so long as
actually occupied by the owner as a dwelling, and only the excess in
value above one thousand dollars can be set off. (Gen. Stat. 1902 Sec.
4065, 4066.)
Money due on insurance losses for exempt property, whether real or
personal, are also exempt.
DELAWARE.
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