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
Exemptions are as follows: All clothing of the debtor and family, and
chairs, tables, desks, and books to the value of two hundred dollars;
also all necessary household, table and kitchen furniture, of the
judgment debtor, including one sewing-machine, stove, stove-pipe, and
stove furniture heating apparatus, beds, bedding and bedsteads and
provisions and fuel for individual or family use, sufficient for three
months; one horse, saddle and bridle, two cows with their calves, four
hogs, and fifty domestic fowl, and feed for such animals for three
months; one clock, and all family pictures. In addition to the above,
there is exempt to a farmer his farming utensils not exceeding six
hundred dollars in value, two oxen, or two horses or mules and their
harness, one cart or wagon, and food for such stock for three months;
two hundred dollars' worth of seed, grain, or vegetables actually
provided for the purpose of sowing or planting. The proper tools,
instruments, or books of any mechanic, physician, dentist, lawyer, or
clergyman, and office furniture. To a miner his dwelling and all his
tools and machinery necessary for carrying on his avocation, not to
exceed in value the aggregate sum of one thousand dollars, and also one
horse or mule, and its harness, with its food for three months, in case
such stock is used in working his mining claim. One horse, mule, or two
oxen, vehicle and harness, by which the debtor habitually earns his
living, and one horse with vehicle and harness, of physician or
clergyman, used in making professional visits, with food for such stock
for three months. All arms, uniforms, etc., required by law to be kept
by any person. The wages of the debtor earned at any time within thirty
days next preceding the levy, provided they are necessary for the use of
his family, residing in the State, supported wholly or in part by his
labor. All moneys growing out of life insurance. These exemptions are
restricted to married persons or to persons who are the heads of
families, and only the wearing apparel of an unmarried person is exempt
to him. None but =bona fide residents= can claim the benefit of this law.
A homestead not to exceed in value the sum of twenty-five hundred
dollars, if agriculture land it is not to exceed one hundred and sixty
acres. If within the limits of a town, plat, city, or village, not to
exceed one-fourth of an acre. The debtor has his option of the two and
may select either, with all improvements thereon, which are included in
the valuation.
NEBRASKA.
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