Every unmarried woman may hold the following property exempt from execution, attachment, or sale, to satisfy any judgment, decree, or debt, to wit: 1st. Wearing apparel, not exceeding one hundred dollars in value. 2d. One sewing-machine. 3d. One knitting-machine. 4th. Bible, etc., and other books not exceeding in value twenty-five dollars. Every person who has a family, and every widow, can hold exempt from execution, attachment, or sale from any debt, damage, fine, or amercment: 1st. Wearing apparel of such person or family necessary beds, etc., two stoves, and fuel for sixty days. 2d. Certain domestic animals, and their feed for sixty days, or, in lieu of such as the debtor has not, household furniture of equal value, amounting, in the aggregate to sixty-five dollars. 3d. Family books and pictures. 4th. Provisions to the amount of fifty dollars, and other necessary household furniture to the amount of fifty dollars. 5th. One sewing-machine, one knitting-machine, the tools and implements of debtor necessary for carrying on his or her trade or business, whether mechanical or agricultural, to the amount of one hundred dollars 6th. The personal earnings of debtor or minor child for three months previous to the issuing of the attachment or rendition of judgment, when necessary for support of debtor or his or her family. 7th. All animal, vegetable, or mineral specimens of natural history or science not kept for pecuniary gain. In addition to the above, the debtor, if a drayman, can hold one horse, harness, and dray; if a farmer one horse or one yoke of cattle, with necessary gearing for same, and one wagon; if a physician, one horse, one saddle and bridle, and professional books, medicine and instruments, not exceeding one hundred dollars in value. Husband and wife living together, a widower living with an unmarried daughter or minor son, every widow, and every unmarried female having in good faith the care, maintenance and custody, of any minor child or children of a deceased relation, residents of Ohio, and not the owner of a homestead, may hold other real or personal property, to be selected by such person, his agent or attorney, not exceeding five hundred dollars in value, in addition to the amount of chattel property otherwise by law exempted, provided that such selection shall not be made as to wages due to the extent of more than ninety per cent, of such wages as against claims for necessaries.
A homestead, not exceeding one thousand dollars in value, which shall remain exempt from sale on execution and exempt from sale under any order of the court so long as the widow, if she remain unmarried, or any unmarried minor child, resides thereon. Husband and wife living together, a widow or widower living with an unmarried daughter or unmarried minor son, may hold exempt a family homestead not exceeding one thousand dollars in value.
OKLAHOMA.
The exemptions of the head of a family residing in the State are: 1st. The homestead of the family. 2d. All household and kitchen furniture. 3d. Any lot or lots in a cemetery held for the purpose of sepulture. 4th. All implements of husbandry used upon the farm. 5th. All tools, apparatus and books belonging to and used in any trade or profession. 6th. The family library and all family portraits and pictures and wearing apparel. 7th. Five milk cows and their calves under six months old. 8th. One yoke of work oxen, with necessary yokes and chains. 9th. Two horses or two mules, and one wagon, cart, or dray. 10th. One carriage or buggy, 11th. One gun. 12th. Ten hogs. 13th. Twenty head of sheep. 14th. All saddles, bridles, and harness necessary for the use of the family. 15th. All provisions and forage on hand and growing for home consumption, and for use of exempt stock for one year. 16th. All current wages and earnings for personal or professional services earned within the last ninety days.
The homestead of any family in the State within any city, town, or village consists of not exceeding an acre of land to be selected by owner, owned and occupied as a residence only, but not exceeding in value five thousand dollars, but in no event shall the homestead be reduced to less than a quarter of an acre regardless of value. If the homestead is used for both residence and business purposes, the homestead interest shall not exceed in value five thousand dollars, and nothing in the laws of the United States or treaties with Indian tribes deprives an Indian or other allottee of the benefit of the homestead and exemption laws of the State.
The exemptions reserved to a person not the head of a family are as follows: 1st. A lot or lots in a cemetery held for the purpose of sepulture. 2d. All wearing apparel. 3d. All tools, apparatus and books belonging to any trade or profession. 4th. One horse, bridle, and saddle, or one yoke of oxen. 5th. Current wages for personal services.
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.
PENNSYLVANIA.