MAINE.
The following personal property is exempt from attachment and levy: Wearing apparel, household furniture necessary for himself, wife, and children not exceeding one hundred dollars in value, and one bedstead, bed and bedding for each two members, family portraits, Bibles, school-books in actual use; copy of State statutes, library worth one hundred and fifty dollars, pew in use, one cooking and all iron-warming stoves, charcoal, twelve cords of wood at home for use; five tons of anthracite and fifty bushels of bituminous coal, ten dollars' worth of lumber, wood or bark, all produce till harvested, one barrel flour, thirty bushels of corn, grain, all potatoes raised or bought and necessary for debtor or his family, half an acre of flax and manufactures therefrom for use of himself or family, tools of trade, fifty dollars' worth of materials and stock procured and necessary for trade or business and intended to be used in same, sewing-machine worth one hundred dollars, one pair of working cattle, or one pair of horses or mules worth three hundred dollars, and hay to keep them through the winter, one harness worth twenty dollars for each horse or mule; a horse sled or ox sled, two swine, one cow, and a heifer under three years, or two cows if no oxen, horse, or mule, ten sheep with their wool and lambs until one year old, hay sufficient to keep them through the winter, fifty dollars' worth of domestic fowl, one plow, one cart or truck wagon or one express wagon, one harrow, one yoke with bows, ring, and staple, two chains, one ox sled, one mowing machine, one boat of two tons employed in fishing and owned exclusively by an inhabitant of the State, life and accident policies except excess of annual cash premiums for two years above one hundred and fifty dollars. Also two shares in loan and building associations, also the receipts of certain agricultural societies until their expenses, purses, and premiums are paid, provided the same are paid within three months from close of fair.
REAL ESTATE.—Lot of land and buildings worth five hundred dollars, if owner files required certificate in registry of deeds, is exempt as a homestead from all attachments except for liens of mechanics and material men; also one cemetery lot.
MARYLAND.
In Maryland the sheriff cannot take in execution wearing apparel, mechanical text-books, or books of professional men, or mechanical or professional men's tools (except books and tools kept for sale). And, except under executions issued upon judgments for seduction or breach of promise of marriage, he must also leave one hundred dollars' worth of other property, to be selected by the defendant, or, if one hundred dollars' worth cannot be conveniently set aside, pay him one hundred dollars out of the proceeds of sale. Also money payable in the nature of insurance for accident, death, etc.
MASSACHUSETTS.
The following exemptions of personal property are allowed: 1st. The necessary wearing apparel of the debtor and his wife and children, and household necessaries to a limited amount. 2d. Other household furniture necessary for him and his family, not exceeding three hundred dollars in value. 3d. The Bibles, school-books, and library used by him or his family, not exceeding fifty dollars in value. 4th. One cow, six sheep, one swine, and two tons of hay. 5th. The tools, implements, and fixtures necessary for carrying on his trade or business, not exceeding one hundred dollars in value. 6th. Materials and stock for carrying on his trade or business, and intended to be used or wrought therein, not exceeding one hundred dollars in value. 7th. The provisions necessary for the use of the family, not exceeding fifty dollars in value. 8th. One pew occupied by him or his family in a house of public worship; but this does not prevent the sale of a pew for the non-payment of a tax legally laid thereon. 9th. The boat, fishing tackle, and nets of fishermen, actually used by them in the prosecution of their business, to the value of one hundred dollars. 10th. The uniform of an officer or soldier in the militia, and the arms and accoutrements required by law to be kept by him. 11th. Rights of burial and tombs while in use as repositories for the dead. 12th. One sewing-machine, not exceeding one hundred dollars in value in actual use by the debtor or by his family. 13th. Shares in co-operative associations formed under the Revised Laws, ch. 110, not exceeding in value twenty dollars in the aggregate.
Every householder having a family is entitled to an estate or homestead to the value of eight hundred dollars exempt from levy on execution, if proper steps have been taken, by deed recorded in the registry of deed of the county where it is situated, to declare it a homestead.
MICHIGAN.
The laws of this State exempt from sale on execution to every householder a homestead not exceeding forty acres of land and the house thereon, if in the country, or a house and lot in any city or village not exceeding in value fifteen hundred dollars. A married householder cannot sell or encumber such homestead without the consent of his wife.