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
The following property is exempt from execution, attachment, distress,
and forced sale: 1st. All necessary household, table, and kitchen
furniture, one sewing-machine, crockery, tin and plated ware, calabashes
and mats, family portraits and photographs and their necessary frames,
wearing apparel, bedding, household linen, and provision for household
use for three months. 2nd. Farming implements and utensils not exceeding
five hundred dollars in value; two horses or mules, and their harness
and their food for one month; one horse, one set of single harness, and
one vehicle of any person who is maimed or crippled. 3d. The tools or
implements of a mechanic or artisan necessary to carry on his trade; the
instruments and chest of a physician, dentist, or surveyor necessary to
the exercise of his profession, together with his necessary office
furniture and fixture; the necessary office furniture, fixtures, blanks,
stationery, and office equipment of attorneys and judges, ministers of
the gospel and rabbis; the typewriter, one desk, and six chairs of a
stenographer or typewriter; the musical instruments of every teacher of
music, used in giving instruction; one bicycle used in carrying on of
one's business or transporting him to and from his place of business;
the fishing nets, dips and seines, and the boats with their tackle and
equipment, of every fisherman. 4th. The horses or mules and their
harness, one cart, wagon, or stage, one dray or truck, one coupe, hack
or carriage for one or two horses, by use of which a cartman, drayman,
truckster, huckster, peddler, hackman, teamster, or other laborer earns
his living; and one horse and harness and one vehicle used by a
physician, surgeon, or minister of the gospel in the practice or
exercise of his profession. 5th. The nautical instruments and wearing
apparel of every master, officer, and seaman of any steamship or other
vessel. 6th. All books, papers, pamphlets, and manuscripts, together
with book-cases, shelvings, cabinets, and other devices for holding the
same except those kept for sale by any dealer therein. 7th. One-half of
the wages due every laborer or person working for wages. 8th. The
proceeds of insurance on, and the proceeds of sale of the property
aforesaid for the period of three months after such proceeds are
received. (Sec. 1831.) There is also exempt from execution the family
Bible, family pictures, school-books, two swine or six goats, and all
necessary fish, meat, flour, and vegetables, and one piece of land where
kalo or any other vegetable is growing, not to exceed one-half acre
actually cultivated for family use, also a house lot not to exceed
one-quarter acre, and the dwelling and other buildings thereon, provided
the value thereof shall not exceed two hundred and fifty dollars. But
this exemption does not apply as against mechanics and material-men
having liens for labor or material. (Sec. 1830.)
INDIANA.
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