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erty, not exempt from execution, is only held for satisfaction of judgment after the levy of execution thereon.

CHAPTER VII.

EXECUTIONS, EXEMPTIONS, SALE, AND REDEMP

TION.

Execution may issue for the enforcement of a judgment at any time within five years after the entry thereof, and may be issued to the sheriff of any county in the State in proper cases.

EXEMPTIONS.

The following property of the judgment debtor is exempt from execution :

1. Chairs, tables, desks, and books to the value of $100.

2. Necessary household furniture, wearing apparel, beds, bedding, provisions, and firewood sufficient for one month:

3. Farming utensils; also two oxen or two horses, or two mules and their harnesses; two cows, one cart or wagon; and food for such oxen, horses, cows or mules, for one month; also all seed. grain or vegetables actually provided, reserved, or on hand for the purpose of planting or sowing, at any time within the ensuing six months, not exceeding in value $100.

4. The tools and implements of a mechanic or artisan necessary to carry on his trade; the instruments and chests of a surgeon, physician, surveyor, and dentist, necessary to the exercise of their profession, with their scientific and professional libraries, and the libraries of an attorney or counsellor, and the libraries of ministers of the gospel.

5. The cabin or dwelling of a miner, not exceeding in value $500; also all tools and implements necessary for carrying on any mining operation not exceeding in value $500; and two horses, mules, or oxen, with their harnesses, and food for the same for one month, when necessary to be used in such mining operations.

6. Two oxen, two horses, or two mules, and their harness, and one cart or wagon, by the use of which a cartman, huckster, peddler, teamster, or other laborer, habitually earns his living; and one horse, with vehicle and harness, or other equipments used by a physician or surgeon or minister of the gospel in making his professional visits, and food for such oxen, mules, or horses, for one month.'

7. One sewing machine, not exceeding in value $150, in actual use by the debtor or his family.

8. All fire engines, hooks and ladders, and all apparatus and furniture belonging to any fire company or department.

9. All arms, uniforms, and accoutrements required by law to be kept by any person.

10. All court houses, jails, public offices and buildings, lots, grounds, and personal property; the fixtures, furniture, books, papers, and appurtenances belonging and pertaining to the court house, jail, and public offices belonging to any county in this State; and all cemeteries, public squares, parks and places, public buildings, town halls, public markets, buildings for the use of the fire departments and military organizations, and the lots and grounds thereto belonging and appertaining, owned or held by any town or incorporated city, or dedicated by such town or city to health, ornament, or public use, or for the use of any fire or military company organized under the laws of this State.

11. None of the above articles or species of property are exempt from execution issued upon a judgment recovered for its price, or upon a mortgage thereon.

12. The earnings of a judgment debtor arising from his personal services for the thirty days preceding the making of the order, (in supplemental proceedings) to the extent of fifty dollars, are exempt, when it shall be made to appear by the debtor's affidavit, or other

wise, that such earnings are necessary for the use of a family supported wholly or partially by his labor.

For homestead exemption, see " Homesteads."

SALE.

Real property may be sold upon twenty days' notice, given as required by law; and personal property after five days' notice of the time and place of sale, as required by law.

REDEMPTION.

Real estate sold upon execution or order of sale, upon mortgage or otherwise, may be redeemed by the judgment debtor, or his successors in interest in the whole or any part of the property; or by a creditor having a lien by judgment or mortgage upon the property sold, or some share or part thereof subsequent to that upon which the property was sold, within six months from the date of sale. Real property sold for taxes is not subject to redemption. Personal property, sold upon execution, is not subject to redemption.

CHAPTER VIII.

PROCEEDINGS SUPPLEMENTARY TO EXECUTION.

Upon return of execution unsatisfied, in whole or in part, issued upon any judgment, the defendant may be required to appear before the Court, and answer under oath concerning his property.

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When plaintiff is a non-resident, or is a foreign corporation, security for costs may be required.

CHAPTER X.

APPEALS.

An appeal from a judgment rendered in a Justice's Court may be taken to the district court within thirty days after entry of judgment, upon filing a bond with two sufficient sureties for double the amount of judgment and costs, in case stay of execution is demanded.

An appeal may be taken from the District to the Supreme Court: 1. From a final judgment in action or special proceeding commenced in the Court in which the judgment is rendered, within one year after the rendition of judgment.

2. From an order granting or refusing a new trial, from an order granting or dissolving an injunction, and from an order refusing to grant or dissolve an injunction, and from any special order made after the final judgment, within sixty days after the order is made and entered in the minutes of the Court.

3. From an interlocutory judgment or order in cases of partition which determines the rights of the several parties, and directs partition, sale, or division to be made, within sixty days after the rendition of the same.

In all cases of appeal to the Supreme Court, a bond must be filed in the sum of $300 for payment of costs of appeal; and in case a stay of execution is demanded, then an additional bond must be filed in a sum for double the amount of the judgment and costs. Bonds to be given by appellant, and to be executed by two or more

sureties.

CHAPTER XI.

ESTATES OF DECEASED PERSONS.

Claims against estates of deceased persons must be presented, proved, and allowed within ten months after the first publication of administrator's or executor's notice to creditors, excepting claims of persons who are non-residents of the State, who have not had actual notice; they may present their claims at any time before distribution of estate. Claims may be verified by residents before any officer authorized to administer oaths within the State. An affidavit taken before a justice of the peace of any other county in the State except the one where the administrator or executor resides, must, to entitle it to be used or filed, contain a certificate of the clerk of the county where such justice resides, reciting the facts that said justice is duly commissioned and acting as such justice of the peace; that the signature of such justice is genuine, and that full faith and credit are due to all his official acts.

Affidavits to correctness of accounts and claims, when made out of the State of Nevada, must, to insure their reception, be verified before some judge of a Court having a seal, under the seal thereof, or a commissioner of deeds duly commissioned and qualified, of the State of Nevada, or before a notary public whose official character

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