The Law of Homestead and Exemptions

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S. Whitney & Company, 1875 - 467 pages
 

Contents

Statutes not retrospective unless clearly intended 46
79
Federal Courts to determine questions under U S Constitution 18
86
CHAPTER III
88
Increase of homestead to prescribed value or quantity
89
Construction of statute in Arkansas 60
95
Cannot have two homesteads
96
Insurance money of homestead
102
Separate property of wife in Ohio
108
Ownership and occupancy necessary in Alabama
115
Leasehold adjoining homestead 118 See ADDENDA
125
Some right or title to the land necessary to the right 112 See ADDENDA
127
Separate parcels of land composing homestead 129140 See ADDENDA
137
Homestead in assets of partnership
143
Death of wife departure of adult children
149
Steps to be taken in order to acquire
166
States in which no formal act of selection necessary
168
When the selection may be made
174
Effect of judgment when the right ceases 180184
180
Claims and liens which may affect homestead 186 187 See ADDENDA
188
Lien of judgment allowed to slumber 189 See ADDENDA
190
What will be held to be purchasemoney 225 See ADDENDA
193
Lien of judgment deed of trust subject to in Texas
196
Specific liens vendors mechanics taxes 202206
202
What will be considered an existing debt 208
208
Existing debts in California and in Texas
214
Special release of the right of homestead 265
216
Change in the form of the instrument for purchasemoney
220
Vendors lien where there is waiver of exemption in Pennsylvania
228
Natural right of alienation not inhibited
241
DIVORCE
244
Husband can convey to trustee for benefit of wife
254
Not necessary to say it is the homestead in mortgage
266
Property mortgaged before occupation right of homestead
269
Valid mortgage by husband and wife she may plead usury
272
REVIEW OF ABANDONMENT
278
Efforts to sell no proof of abandonment
284
Where no homestead selected widow entitled
322
Widow acquiesces in order for length of time conclusive
328
Death of wife without issue husband retains it
334
Adult children living apart not subject to deed of trust
337
Fraudulent acquisition of homestead as against creditors 467
346
Widow no homestead where no debts in North Carolina
350
Widows allowance by way of homestead in Louisiana
355
Surrendering trust deed preferred creditor 473
359
Widow right in Massachusetts
363
Courts of bankruptcy will protect property of insolvent 500
367
Property acquired by bankrupt after proceedings 513
370
Widows right to possession of land under dower not homestead
376
Any resident entitled to exemption in Nebraska 534
384
In Alabama widow with separate estate
390
Waiver in a majority of the States utterly void 545
392
Disclaiming ownership cannot sue officer for taking goods 553
395
In Mississippi widow entitled to dower and homestead
396
Liens of creditors of deceased householder in Illinois
397
Exemption of property held in joint ownership 558
401
Abandonment by widow does not debar children
402
Commercial books and countinghouse furniture 570
407
Widow as creditor of estate for allowance
408
Recitals in decree insufficiency of in administrators sale
412
ADDENDA
413
Parties are bound by the determination of Court
414
Judgment on foreclosure where no release 420 See ADDENDA
422
Practice selling statutory surplus in California
427
Cemetery vault where exempt by State law 507
429
Declaration of homestead by wife in California
433
What accuracy necessary in proceedings to set out claim
439
Illegal sale of homestead
445
Specific performance of contract of husband
451
Interest of the wife in the estate of homestead in Kansas
456
The several statutes passed
457
Liberal construction of exemption clause
463
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Page 108 - ... have one and the same interest, accruing by one and the same conveyance, commencing at one and the same time, and held by one and the same undivided possession.
Page 143 - That no lands acquired under the provisions of this act shall in any event become liable to the satisfaction of any debt or debts contracted prior to the issuing of the patent therefor.
Page 95 - ... from forced sale under any process of law, and shall not be alienated without the joint consent of husband and wife, when that relation exists; but no property shall be exempt from sale for taxes, or for the payment of obligations contracted for the purchase of said premises, or for the erection of improvements thereon...
Page 86 - The ideas of validity and remedy are inseparable, and both are parts of the obligation, which is guaranteed by the Constitution against invasion. The obligation of a contract 'is the law which binds the parties to perform their agreement.
Page 50 - Tenantry is unfavorable to freedom. It lays the foundation for separate orders in society, annihilates the love of country, and weakens the spirit of independence. The tenant has, in fact, no country, no hearth, no domestic altar, no household god. The freeholder, on the contrary, Is the natural supporter of a free government; and It should be the policy of republics to multiply their freeholders, as it is the policy of monarchies to multiply their tenants.
Page 96 - The privilege of the debtor to enjoy the necessary comforts of life, shall be recognized by wholesome laws, exempting a reasonable amount of property from seizure or sale for the payment of any debt or liability hereafter contracted; and there shall be no imprisonment for debt, except in case of fraud.
Page 344 - ... shall have accepted any preference, having reasonable cause to believe that the same was made or given by the debtor contrary to any provision of this act, shall not prove the debt or claim on account of which the preference was made or given; nor shall he receive any dividend thereon until he shall first have surrendered to the assignee all property, money, benefit, or advantage received by him under such preference.
Page 86 - is the law which binds the parties to perform their agreement." Any impairment of the obligation of a contract — the degree of impairment is immaterial — is within the prohibition of the Constitution; The States may change the remedy, provided no substantial right secured by the contract is impaired. Whenever such a result is produced by the act in question, to that extent it is void. The States are no more permitted to impair the efficacy of a contract in this way than to attack its vitality...
Page 347 - A homestead to the extent of one hundred and sixty acres of farming land, or of one acre within the limits of an incorporated town or city, occupied as a residence by the family of the owner, together with all the improvements on the same, shall be exempted from forced sale under any process of law, and shall not be alienated without the joint consent of husband and wife, when that relation exists...
Page 55 - No lands acquired under the provisions of this chapter shall in any event become liable to the satisfaction of any debt contracted prior to the issuing of the patent therefor.

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