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 goods and property are exempt from attachment, and from
liability to be taken upon execution: Necessary wearing apparel of the
debtor and his family; household furniture to the value of one hundred
dollars; one cooking-stove and its furniture; one sewing-machine; Bibles
and school books in actual use; library to the value of two hundred
dollars; one cow, six sheep and their fleeces, one hog, one pig, and the
pork of same when slaughtered; domestic fowls, not exceeding in value
fifty dollars; four tons of hay; provisions and fuel to the value of
fifty dollars; tools of his occupation to the value of one hundred
dollars; beasts of the plow, not exceeding a yoke of oxen or a horse;
the uniform, arms, and equipments of every officer or private in the
militia; the debtor's interest in one pew in any meeting house, and in
one lot in any cemetery. Damages recovered for conversion of property
exempt are also exempt. The wife, widow, and children of any person who
is the owner of a homestead, or any interest therein, are entitled to so
much thereof as does not exceed in value five hundred dollars as against
creditors, grantees, or heirs of such person during the life of the wife
or widow and minority of the children. A homestead of the value of five
hundred dollars is also exempt to an unmarried person owning the same.
(P. S. ch. 138.)
NEW JERSEY.
All goods and chattels, not exceeding in value the sum of two hundred
dollars exclusive of wearing apparel, and all wearing apparel the
property of any debtor having a family residing in this State, are
exempt from seizure by virtue of execution or other civil process except
for the purchase money. (Gen. Statutes, p. 1421.) In addition thereto,
by conforming to the provisions of the homestead exemption act, the lot
and buildings thereon occupied as a residence and owned by the debtor,
being a householder and having a family, to the value of one thousand
dollars, may be exempted from sale or execution for debt. (Gen.
Statutes, pp. 2297-2298.)
NEW MEXICO.
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