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 is absolutely exempt to the head of a family from
attachment or mesne process, and from levy and sale on execution, and
from any other final process issued from any court: All family pictures;
a pew or other sitting in any house of worship; a lot or lots in any
burial-ground; the family Bible, and all school books used by the
family, and other books used as a part of the family library, not
exceeding in value one hundred dollars; all wearing apparel of the
debtor and his family; the provisions for the debtor and his family
necessary for one year's supply either provided or growing, or both, and
fuel necessary for one year; the homestead, as defined, created, and
limited by law. In addition to the above mentioned property, the head of
a family may, by himself or his agent, select from all other of his
personal property, not absolutely exempt, goods, chattels, merchandise,
money, or other personal property, not to exceed in the aggregate one
thousand dollars in value, which is also exempt. The library and
instruments of any professional person, not exceeding six hundred
dollars in value.
OHIO.
Every unmarried woman may hold the following property exempt from
execution, attachment, or sale, to satisfy any judgment, decree, or
debt, to wit: 1st. Wearing apparel, not exceeding one hundred dollars in
value. 2d. One sewing-machine. 3d. One knitting-machine. 4th. Bible,
etc., and other books not exceeding in value twenty-five dollars. Every
person who has a family, and every widow, can hold exempt from
execution, attachment, or sale from any debt, damage, fine, or
amercment: 1st. Wearing apparel of such person or family necessary beds,
etc., two stoves, and fuel for sixty days. 2d. Certain domestic animals,
and their feed for sixty days, or, in lieu of such as the debtor has
not, household furniture of equal value, amounting, in the aggregate to
sixty-five dollars. 3d. Family books and pictures. 4th. Provisions to
the amount of fifty dollars, and other necessary household furniture to
the amount of fifty dollars. 5th. One sewing-machine, one
knitting-machine, the tools and implements of debtor necessary for
carrying on his or her trade or business, whether mechanical or
agricultural, to the amount of one hundred dollars 6th. The personal
earnings of debtor or minor child for three months previous to the
issuing of the attachment or rendition of judgment, when necessary for
support of debtor or his or her family. 7th. All animal, vegetable, or
mineral specimens of natural history or science not kept for pecuniary
gain. In addition to the above, the debtor, if a drayman, can hold one
horse, harness, and dray; if a farmer one horse or one yoke of cattle,
with necessary gearing for same, and one wagon; if a physician, one
horse, one saddle and bridle, and professional books, medicine and
instruments, not exceeding one hundred dollars in value. Husband and
wife living together, a widower living with an unmarried daughter or
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