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 of each head of a family is also exempt: 1st. Two
work-horses, or mules, and one yoke of oxen. 2d. Two heads of cows and
calves. 3d. Ten hogs. 4th. Twenty sheep and goats each. 5th. All
poultry. 6th. All colts under three years, raised in this State by
debtors. 7th. Two hundred and fifty bushels of corn. 8th. Ten bushels of
wheat or rice. 9th. Five hundred pounds of pork, bacon, or other meat.
10th. One hundred bushels of cottonseed. 11th. One wagon, and one buggy
or cart, and one set of harness for each. 12th. Five hundred bundles of
fodder and one thousand pounds of hay. 13th. Forty gallons of sorghum or
molasses or cane syrup. 14th. one thousand stalks of sugar-cane. 15th.
One molasses-mills and equipments, not exceeding one hundred and fifty
dollars in value. 16th. Two bridles and one saddle, and one side-saddle.
17th. One sewing-machine. 18th. Household and kitchen furniture not
exceeding in value two hundred dollars. 19th. All family portraits.
20th. One mower and rake. 21st. Wages to amount of fifty dollars per
month.
The following property is also exempt to any person: 1st. The tools of a
mechanic necessary for carrying on his trade. 2nd. Agricultural
implements of a farmer necessary for two male laborers. 3d. The
implements of a laborer necessary in his usual employment. 4th. The
books of a student necessary for the completion of his education. 5th.
Wearing apparel. 6th. Libraries and pictures of all persons not
exceeding five hundred dollars in value. 7th. Instruments of surgeons
and dentists, used in their professions, not exceeding two hundred and
fifty dollars in value. 8th. The arms and accoutrements of each
militiaman. 9th. All globes and maps used by teachers of schools,
academies and colleges. 10th. The proceeds of insurance on, or the sale
of, exempt property.
MISSOURI.
Certain animals, implements, and domestic furniture and wearing apparel,
as specified by the statute, is exempt from execution and attachment
when owned by the head of a family. Wearing apparel and the necessary
tools and implements of trade of any mechanic, while carrying on his
trade, are exempt from execution when owned by a person not the head of
a family. Every householder or head of a family is entitled to have
exempt from execution and attachment the homestead occupied by him, not
exceeding in value three thousand dollars in cities of over forty
thousand inhabitants, and not exceeding in quantity eighteen square rods
of ground. In cities having less than forty thousand and not less than
ten thousand inhabitants the homestead cannot exceed in value fifteen
hundred dollars nor thirty square rods of ground; in cities having less
than ten thousand inhabitants, five acres and not exceeding in value
fifteen hundred dollars; and one hundred and sixty acres of land in the
country, not exceeding in value fifteen hundred dollars.
MONTANA.
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