How to Collect a Doctor BillDavis, Franklyn Pierre
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How to Collect a Doctor Bill
Davis, Franklyn Pierre
Collecting of accounts; Jurisprudence; Medicine -- Practice -- Management
Family Bible, school-books, and family pictures, seat or pew in church,
lot in burial ground, all wearing apparel of debtor and family, and in
addition to above tools, implements, and fixtures necessary to carry on
a trade or business, not exceeding seventy-five dollars in New Castle
and Sussex Counties and fifty dollars in Kent County. There is exempted
to the Head of a family, in addition to above, other personal property
(goods and chattels of a merchantable character bought to be sold and
trafficked in by the debtor in the transaction of his or her business or
occupation, excepted) not exceeding two hundred dollars in New Castle
County, and not exceeding one hundred and fifty dollars in Kent County,
and in the latter county consisting of household goods only; but there
is no such additional exemption in Sussex County, and there is no such
additional exemption when such exemption would prevent the collection of
a debt due or growing due for labor or services (other than professional
services) rendered by any clerk, mechanic, or other employee of the
debtor. Sewing-machines owned and used by seamstresses or private
families are exempt from execution on attachment process, and also from
distress for rent. In New Castle County ninety per cent. of all wages
are exempt from execution attachment, except for board, lodging, or
both, not exceeding fifty dollars. Widows in all cases shall have the
benefit of the same exemption out of the husband's goods that the
husband would have had if living. Funeral expenses, reasonable bills for
medicine and medical attendance, nursing, and necessaries of last
sickness, are paid out of personality of a deceased person before there
is any application to the execution. Above exemptions extended to
distress for rent.
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.
The following property is exempt from execution: Wearing apparel
belonging to all persons and to all heads of families being
householders; beds, bedding, household furniture, stoves, cooking
utensils, etc., not exceeding three hundred dollars in value; provisions
for three months' support, whether provided or growing; fuel for three
months; mechanics' tools and implements of professional man or artist to
value of three hundred dollars; one horse, one mule, or yoke of oxen;
one cart, one wagon or dray, and harness for such team; farming
utensils, with food for such team for three months, and if the debtor be
a farmer, any other farming tools of value of one hundred dollars; all
family pictures and all family library not exceeding in value four
hundred dollars; one cow, one swine, six sheep. (Sec. 1105, Code.)
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