The homestead of the head of every family resident in this State, whether owned by the husband or wife, so long as it remains a homestead, is absolutely exempt, except for taxes and debts contracted for the purchase thereof. If within a town plat it must not exceed one acre in extent, and if not within a town plat it must not embrace in the aggregate more than one hundred and sixty acres, with the house and buildings appurtenant thereon; and is limited to five thousand dollars in value. (C. C. P. Sec. 345.) If the homestead is claimed upon land, the title or right of possession to which was acquired or is claimed under the laws of the United States relating to mineral lands, the area of the homestead, if within a town plat, must not exceed one acre, and if without a town plat, must not exceed forty acres. If the title to the homestead has been acquired as a placer claim but has been acquired under the laws of Congress as a lode mining claim, the area of the homestead must not exceed forty acres. (L. 1909, ch. 136.) Such exemption continues after the debtor's death, for the benefit of the surviving husband or wife and children; and if both husband and wife be dead, until the youngest child becomes of age. (Prob. C. Sec. 153.) It is very doubtful, however, in view of the provisions of the State Constitution, if the title of the homestead can be in the wife, unless the husband is for some reason incapacitated. TENNESSEE. Thirty-six dollars of the wages, salary, or income of any person drawing forty dollars or less per month shall be exempt from legal process at date of service of process. Household goods and provisions are exempt. The list includes practically every article to be found in the average home. The liberality of the law may be judged from the fact that one hundred gallons of sorghum molasses and twenty pounds of coffee are listed. The list ends with: twenty bushels of peanuts, three strings of red peppers, two gourds, two punger gourds, a carpet in actual use by the family, not exceeding in value twenty-five dollars, and two hundred bushels of cotton seed.