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 personal property shall be exempt from execution,
attachment, distress, or fee bill against a person with a family
residence in this State: two work beasts, or one work beast and one yoke
of oxen, two plows and gear, one wagon and one set of gear, or cart or
dray, three hoes, one spade, one shovel, two cows and calves; beds,
bedding, and furniture sufficient for family use; one loom and
spinning-wheel and pair of cards; all the spun yarn and manufactured
cloth manufactured by the family, necessary for family use; carpeting
for all family rooms in use; one cooking-stove and all cooking utensils,
not to exceed twenty-five dollars in value; one table, all books, not to
exceed fifty dollars in value, two saddles and their appendages; two
bridles, six chairs, or so many as shall not exceed ten dollars in
value, one cradle; all the poultry on hand; ten head of sheep, not to
exceed two dollars and fifty cents in value for each sheep; all wearing
apparel; sufficient provisions including bread-stuffs and animal food to
sustain the family one year; provender suitable for live stock, if
there is any live stock, not to exceed seventy dollars in value; if
none, then other property not to exceed seventy dollars in value in lieu
thereof; all washing apparatus not to exceed fifty dollars in value; one
sewing-machine and all family portraits and pictures. And also on all
debts and liabilities created after the first day of June, 1866, so much
land, including the dwelling-house and appurtenances owned by a debtor
who is =a bona fide= housekeeper with a family resident in Kentucky, and
living on or claiming the land as a homestead, as shall not exceed in
value one thousand dollars; and on all liabilities, the libraries of
preachers, the professional libraries of lawyers, physicians, and
surgeons, and their instruments, to the amount of five hundred dollars,
and tools, not exceeding one hundred dollars in value, of a mechanic.
Ninety per cent. of wages or salaries of persons earning seventy-five
dollars per month or less is exempt, the remaining ten per cent, being
subject to debts. As to persons earning more than seventy-five dollars
per month the law exempts sixty-seven dollars and fifty cents per month
and holds the balance subject to debts.
LOUISIANA.
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