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How to Collect a Doctor Bill

by Franklyn P. Davis

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Oregon

The following property shall be exempt from execution, if selected and reserved by the judgment debtor or his agent at the time of levy, or as soon thereafter before sale as the same shall be known to him, and not otherwise. Books, pictures and musical instruments owned by any person, to the value of seventy-five dollars; necessary wearing apparel owned by any person, to the value of one hundred dollars, and, if such person be a householder, to each member of his family to the value of fifty dollars; the tools, implements, apparatus, team, vehicle, harness, or library necessary to enable any person to carry on the trade, occupation, or profession by which such person habitually earns his living, to the value of four hundred dollars; also sufficient quantity of food to support such team, if any, for sixty days. The word “team,” in this subdivision, shall not be construed to mean more than one yoke of oxen, or pair of horses or mules, as the case may be. Homesteads the actual abode of, and owned by, a family or some member thereof are exempt from execution.

The following property (is exempt), if owned by a householder and in actual use, by and for his family, or when being removed from one habitation to another on a change of residence: Ten sheep, with one year’s fleece, or the yarn or cloth manufactured there from, two cows, and five swine, household goods, furniture, and utensils, to the value of three hundred dollars; also, food sufficient to support such animals if any, for three months, and provisions actually provided for family use, and necessary for the support of such householder and family for six months; the seat or pew occupied by a householder, or his family, in a place of public worship; burial lots. Earnings or wages to the extent of seventy-five dollars in thirty days, are exempt if necessary to support family. One gun and one revolver exempt to every white male citizen over sixteen years of age.

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