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
Besides the homestead above mentioned, the wearing apparel of every
person is exempt from judicial or ministerial process; also the
following property when owned by any person being the head of a family
and residing with the same, to wit: the family Bible, pictures, and
school-books; a lot in any cemetery or burial ground; furniture,
bedding, provisions, and such other articles as the debtor may select,
not to exceed in all the value of five hundred dollars, to be
ascertained by the appraisment of three disinterested householders;
provided that no personal property of any person about to remove or
abscond from the State shall be exempt. The tools, teams, and
implements, or stock in trade of a mechanic, miner, or other person, and
used and kept for the purpose of carrying on his trade or business, is
exempt to a value not exceeding three hundred dollars; also the library,
instruments or implements of any professional man, not to exceed in
value three hundred dollars.
BRITISH COLUMBIA.
Personal property to be selected by the debtor to the value of five
hundred dollars is exempt from execution. Under the Homestead Act lands
to the value of twenty-five hundred dollars may be registered as a
homestead, and are then exempt from seizure or sale.
MANITOBA.
1st. Bedding and furniture not exceeding five hundred dollars. (This
exemption does not apply, where claim, for which distress warrant has
issued, is for wages.) 2d. Necessary clothing for judgment debtor and
his family. 3d. Twelve volumes of books and the books of a professional
man, one axe, one saw, one gun, six traps. 4th. Food for judgment debtor
and family for eleven months if in possession. 5th. Three horses, mules,
or oxen, six cows, ten sheep, ten pigs, fifty fowl, and food for the
same during eleven months, provided that the exemption as to horses over
four years of age shall apply only in case they are used by the judgment
debtor in earning his living. 6th. Tools and implements up to five
hundred dollars. 7th. Farm lands up to one hundred and sixty acres
actually resided upon, cultivated by the judgment debtor, or used for
grazing or other purposes, and the houses, stables, barns on the farm
lands resided upon by judgment debtor. 8th. The actual residence or
house of any person other than a farmer, provided the same does not
exceed in value fifteen hundred dollars. 9th. All the necessary seeds of
various varieties or roots for proper seeding and cultivation of eighty
acres. 10th. Insurance on exemptions also exempt. There are no
exemptions in cases of judgments for board and lodgings. No article is
exempt when judgment was for purchase price of article seized.
NOVA SCOTIA.
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