ART. 64. ] PROCEEDINGS IN ACTIONS AT LAW.

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149, No application for a writ of habere tinder this article shall
abate by reason of the death of the purchaser before obtaining pos-
session of the lands and tenements; but his heir or devisee shall
have all the rights and remedies therein given to the purchaser.

EXEMPTION FROM EXECUTION.

Id s 68
1816, c 152
Writ not to
abate by death
of purchaser
14 Md 62

150. One hundred dollars' worth of property of each defendant
therein shall be exempt from execution issued on any judgment in
any civil proceeding whatever, except on judgments for breach of
promise to marry, or for seduction.

1861, c 7, s 1.
Const art 4,
s 44
When f 100
worth of prop-
erty exempt

151. Each defendant in any such execution may select property,
real or personal, to the value of one hundred dollars, to be ascer-
tained by three disinterested appraisers, to lie summoned and sworn
by the officer at the time of levying the execution, and the appraise-
ment, signed by the appraisers, shall be returned with the writ.

Id s 2
How such prop-
erty selected

152. If any property of any defendant, whether real or per-
sonal, cannot be divided so as to set apart a portion of it of the
value of one hundred dollars, without loss or injury to all parties
concerned, then the whole shall be sold, and the defendant whose
property is so sold shall have one hundred dollars of the proceeds
in money, and whether the property can be divided without loss
shall be determined by the appraisers; this section only to apply to
cases where a single parcel of land or single article of personal

Id s 3
When the whole
property to be
sold.

property is levied on, and, in all such cases, the officer shall not sell
unless the property offered shall bring more than one hundred dol-
lars

To what cases
applicable.

153. All wearing apparel, books, and the tools of mechanics,
shall be exempt from execution, in addition to the property herein-
before exempted, but this shall not apply to any books or tools kept
for sale.

Id. s 4
What chattels
exempt

154. The preceding sections, relating to exemptions, shall not
impair the lien of any vendor for the purchase money of land, nor
of any mortgagee, nor of any mechanic, or other person, for any debt
contracted for or in aid of the erection of any building, nor for any
levy thereon for taxes

Id s 6
Not to impair
liens of vendors,
mortgagees, me-
chanics, etc

155. The exemption herein shall not apply to any execution on
a judgment rendered on any contract, or to any liabilities which
existed when the act of 1870, c. 195, took effect (April 4th, 1870);
and provided, that nothing herein contained shall be construed to
apply to any persons except actual bond fide residents of the State
of Maryland.

1870, r 195, s 1.
To what cases
not applicable
41 Md 435, 436,
441, 45 Md 564

To whom appli-
cable

SALES AND NOTICES

156. Any sheriff, or other officer to whom any execution may be
directed, may seize and expose to sale any legal or equitable estate
or interest which the defendant named in such writ may have or
hold in any lands, tenements, or hereditaments.

Art 83, s 1
1810, c 160, s 1
Legal and equit-
able estates may
be sold under
execution
4 Md 465, 21
Md 102, 30 Md
8, 37 Md 520,
8 G & J 35