ART. 83] ASSIGNMENT OF CLAIMS TO NON-RESIDENTS. 1911

be omitted, such defendant shall be estopped from demanding such
exemption unless said court or justice of the peace, for sufficient rea-
sons, shall enter among the docket entries of the case that said waiver
was and is void.

See notes to sec. 8.

Assignment of Claims to Non-Residents.

1904. art 83, sec. 15. 1888, art. 83. sec. 15. 1888, ch. 174, sec. 1.

15. It shall be unlawful for any person, being a citizen of this
State, to assign or transfer any claim for debt against a resident of this
State for the purpose of having the same collected by proceedings in
attachment in courts or before justices of the peace outside of this
State, or to send out of this State by assignment, transfer or other
manner whatsoever, either for or without value, any claim or debt
against any resident thereof for the purpose or with the intent to
deprive such person of the right to have his personal earnings or prop-
erty exempt from application to the payment of his debts, according to
the provisions of this code, where the creditor and debtor and the per-
son or corporation owing the money intended to be reached by such
proceedings are within the jurisdiction of the courts or justices of the
peace of this State; and the person sending, assigning or transferring
any such claim for the purpose or with the intent aforesaid shall be
liable in an action of debt to the person from whom any such debt or
claim shall have been collected by attachment or otherwise outside of
the courts of this State for the full amount of the debt, interest and
costs so collected, and the defendant therein shall not be entitled to the
benefit of the exemption laws of this State upon any process of execu-
tion issued upon any judgment recovered in any such action.

Ibid. sec. 16. 1888, art. 83, sec. 16. 1888, ch. 174, sec. 2.

16. In any such action proof of the fact of such sending, assign-
ing or transferring any such claim by the defendant shall be prima
facie evidence of the intent of the said defendant to evade the provi-
sions of this code exempting the property and wages of debtors from
execution.

Ibid. sec. 17. 1888. art. 83. sec. 17. 1888, ch. 174, sec. 3.

17. A copy of the record of the justice of the peace of the State in
which said attachment or other proceedings were brought shall be
complete evidence in all suits instituted under the two preceding sec-
tions, of all facts of said attachment or other proceedings instituted
outside of this State, as shown by said record; and said record shall
also be complete evidence of any assignment of said claim to the plain-
tiff in said attachment proceedings by the defendant which the said
record may show; provided said record shall be certified to by the
justice of the peace before whom said attachment or other proceedings
were brought, and a certificate of the clerk of the circuit court for the
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