Wisconsin
The following personal property is exempt from seizure or sale on any execution and from attachment or garnishment: 1st. The family Bible. 2d. Family pictures and school-books. 3d. The library of the debtor. 4th. The seat or pew in any place of public worship. 5th. All wearing apparel of the debtor and his family; all stoves and appendages kept for the use of the debtor and his family; all cooking utensils and all other household furniture not exceeding two hundred dollars in value, and one gun, rifle, or other firearm not exceeding fifty dollars in value. 6th. Two cows, ten swine, one yoke of oxen, and one horse or mule, or, in lieu of one yoke of oxen and horse or mule, two horses or two mules, ten sheep and the wool from the same, either in the raw material or manufactured into yarn or cloth; the necessary food for one year’s support for all such stock, also one wagon, cart, or dray, one sleigh, one plow, one drag, and other farming utensils, including a tackle for teams, not exceeding two hundred dollars in value. 7th. The provisions for the debtor and his family necessary for one year’s support, and fuel necessary for one year. 8th. The tools, implements, and stock in trade of any mechanic, miner, merchant, trader, or other person, used or kept for the purpose of carrying on his trade or business, not exceeding two hundred dollars in value. 9th. All sewing-machines owned by individuals and kept for the use of themselves or family. 10th. Any sword, plate, books, or other article presented or given to any person by congress, legislature of any of the United States, or by either body of congress or of such legislature, whether presented by vote or raised by subscription of the members of either of the aforesaid bodies, 11th. Printing material and press or presses used in the business of any printer or publisher, to an amount not exceeding fifteen hundred dollars in value, provided no sum exceeding four hundred dollars shall be exempt from payment of employees. 12th. Horses, arms, equipment, and uniforms of all officers, non-commissioned officers, and privates used for military purposes in the organized militia of the State. 13th. All books, maps, plates, and other papers kept or used by any person for the purpose of making abstracts of title to land. 14th. The interests owned by any inventor in any invention secured to him by letters patent of the United States. 15th. The earnings of all married persons and other persons having a family dependant upon them for support, for three months next preceding the issue of an attachment, execution, or garnishment, to the amount of sixty dollars only for each month. Such exemption shall not exceed one hundred and eighty dollars in all for the three months. 16th. All fire-engines, apparatus, and equipments, used or to be used for the protection of property from fire. 17th. All moneys arising from insurance of any exempt property when such property has been destroyed by fire. 19th. All money arising on any policy of insurance on the life of a minor, payable to his father or mother, or both, shall be exempt against the creditors of such father or mother, but not against the creditors of such minor. Certain other life insurance moneys are also exempt. 20th. All cemetery lots owned by individuals and all monuments therein, the coffins and other articles for the burial of any dead person, and the tombstone or monuments for his grave, by whomsoever purchased. 21st. Pensions paid policemen, firemen, their widows or minor children. 22d. Shares of the value of one thousand dollars at time of withdrawal in a local building and loan association held by one not owning a homestead which is exempt. A homestead to be selected by the owner, consisting, when not included in any city or village, of any quantity of land not exceeding forty acres, used for agricultural purposes, and when included in any city or village, of any quantity of land not exceeding one-fourth of an acre and the dwelling-house thereon and its appurtenances owned and occupied by any resident of the State, not exceeding five thousand dollars in value, is exempt. Proceeds of homestead not exceeding five thousand dollars are exempt for two years. Husband cannot assign exempt wages except by a written instrument signed by wife with two witnesses, nor for a longer period than two months in advance.