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
Every person who has a family may hold the following property exempt
from execution, attachment, or sale: The wearing apparel of such person
or family; the beds, bedsteads, and bedding necessary for the use of the
same; one cooking-stove and pipe; one stove and pipe used for warming
the dwelling; fuel sufficient for sixty days; one cow, or if the debtor
owns no cow, household furniture not exceeding forty dollars in value;
two swine or the pork therefrom, or, if the debtor owns no swine,
household furniture not exceeding fifteen dollars in value; six sheep,
the wool shorn from them and the cloth or other articles manufactured
therefrom, or, in lieu thereof, household furniture not exceeding twenty
dollars in value; sufficient food for such animals for sixty days;
Bibles, hymn-books, psalm-books, testaments, school and miscellaneous
books used in the family, and all family pictures; provisions provided
and designed for the use of such person or family; not exceeding fifty
dollars in value; and such other articles of household and kitchen
furniture, or either, necessary for such person or family, not exceeding
two hundred dollars in value; one sewing-machine, one knitting-machine,
one gun or pistol, and the tools or implements of debtor necessary for
carrying on his trade or business, not exceeding one hundred and fifty
dollars in value; the personal earnings of debtor for sixty days next
preceding his application for such exemption, when necessary for the
support of such debtor or his family; all articles, specimens in
cabinets of natural history or science, except such as may be intended
for exhibition for pecuniary gain; if engaged in agriculture; two horses
or one yoke of cattle, with the necessary gearing for the same, and one
wagon; if a doctor, one horse, one saddle and bridle, professional
books, medicines and instruments not exceeding one hundred dollars in
value; if a lawyer professional books not exceeding five hundred dollars
in value; every person engaged in the business of draying, or carrying
property from place to place with one horse and wagon, shall hold one
horse, harness, dray, or wagon also exempt from execution. Every
unmarried woman may hold exempt from execution, etc., wearing apparel
not exceeding in value one hundred and fifty dollars; one
sewing-machine, one knitting-machine; if engaged in teaching music, one
piano or organ; a Bible, hymn-book, psalm-book, album, and any other
books not exceeding in value fifty dollar; any beneficiary fund, not
exceeding five thousand dollars, set apart or paid by any benevolent
association to a family of a deceased member, or to any member of such
family, shall not be liable for the debts of such deceased member.
Husband and wife, widow or widower, living with an unmarried daughter,
or unmarried minor son, may hold exempt from sale or judgment of a
family homestead not exceeding one thousand dollars in value. Any head
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