JUDGMENT is a lien on real property of the debtor, not exempt from being taken on execution, which is situated in the county where the action was brought, and becomes a lien on real estate in other counties by filing a transscript of such judgment in the several counties. The lien continues for five years.

STAY LAW. The power of staying execution for a reasonable time is discretionary with the court. An appeal, accompanied by sufficient security, operates as a stay.

EXEMPTIONS. Chairs, tables, desks, and books to the value of two hundred dollars, necessary household furniture, including one sewing machine and one piano, stoves, stovepipe, and utensils, wearing apparel, beds, bedding, and bedsteads, family portraits and pictures painted by any member of the family, provisions and fuel actually provided for three months, three cows and their sucking calves, four hogs with their sucking pigs, and food for such cows and hogs for one month; farm utensils not exceeding one thousand dollars in value, two oxen, or two horses, or two mules, and harness, one cart or buggy and two wagons, and food for said animals for one month, seed, grain, or vegetables for sowing, not exceeding in value two hundred dollars; and seventy-five bee-hives, and one horse and vehicle belonging to any person who is maimed or crippled, the same being necessary to his business; tools of mechanics or artisans; the office furniture, records, and seal of a notary public; the instruments of surgeons, dentists, physicians, surveyors, with their professional libraries and office furniture; the professional libraries and office furniture of lawyers, judges, ministers, editors, school and music teachers, and the indexes, abstracts, books, papers, maps, and office furniture of searchers of records necessary to be used in their profession, instruments actually used by music teachers in giving instructions, also typewriters used by owner in making his living, also one bicycle. The cabin of a miner, not exceeding five hundred dollars in value, with all the implements and gear necessary for his business, not exceeding five hundred dollars in value, with two horses, mules, or oxen, and harness necessary to operate the mine, and food for the same for one month, and the miner's claim worked by him, not exceeding one thousand dollars in value. Two oxen, mules, or horses, and harness, with food for the same for one month, and the cart or other vehicle by which carters, hackmen, peddlers, etc., habitually earn their living, one horse, vehicle, and harness used by a physician, constable, or minister in the practice of his profession, with food for such animals for one month; fishing boat and net of fisherman not exceeding five hundred dollars; poultry not worth more than seventy-five dollars; seamen's and sea-going fishermen's wages not exceeding three hundred dollars; the earnings of the judgment debtor for personal services rendered within thirty days next preceding the levy, when it appears by affidavit that such earnings are necessary for family support, but only half of such earnings are exempt when the debt is for necessaries; shares in homestead associations not exceeding one thousand dollars, when the debtor has no homestead selected; nautical instruments and wearing apparel of any mariner; life insurance policies, when the premium does not exceed five hundred dollars; all firearms required by law to be kept by any person, one rifle and one shotgun selected by the debtor; all material not over one thousand dollars purchased in good faith for use in or about to be applied in good faith to the construction, alteration, or repair of any building, mining claim, or other improvement, except upon a judgment recovered for its price, or foreclosure of a mortgage thereon, all machinery, etc., necessary in construction of artesian wells or surface wells to the value of one thousand dollars. Shares of stock in any building and loan association to the value of one thousand dollars; also a homestead, consisting of the land on which the debtor resides, to be selected by him, to the value of five thousand dollars, if the head of a family, or one thousand dollars of any other person. Moneys derived from U. S. pension.

COLORADO.-ACTIONS. There is only one form of action in civil cases, and actions are begun by filing with the clerk of the court a writen com

plaint. Non-residents must give security for costs or by the service of a sum

mons.

ATTACHMENT. Writ of attachment may issue on filing with the clerk of the court a bond with sureties in double the amount claimed, and an affidavit, signed by the plaintiff or on his behalf, stating the nature and amount of the claim, as near as may be, and that defendant is a non-resident or a foreign corporation or a corporation whose chief office or place of business is out of the State, or that he conceals himself or stands in defiance of an officer so that process cannot be served on him, or that for more than four months defendant has been absent from the State, or his whereabouts unknown, the indebtedness having been due during the whole of said period, or that he is about to remove his property from the State with intent to defraud or delay creditors; or that he has fraudulently assigned, concealed, removed, or disposed of his property to hinder or delay creditors, or is about to do so; or that he is about to depart from the State with the intention of having his effects removed from the State; or that he has failed or refused to pay the price of any article delivered to him which should have been paid for on delivery, or to pay for any services rendered by plaintiff at his request, which were to be paid for when said services were rendered; or that the debt was fraudulently contracted; or if defendant procured property of plaintiff by false representations or fraudulent conduct. Attachment may issue on debts not due if attachment levies on defendant's property are sufficient to render him insolvent. Writs of attachment may issue on Sunday or on Legal Holidays in urgent cases.

ARREST. No person can be arrested on mesne process, and only on execution, when it is on an action of tort in which the finding shall be for the plaintiff, and shall state that the defendant was guilty of malice, fraud, or willful deceit in comm.cting the tort, and in this case he may be imprisoned for one year, or until the judgment is paid.

GARNISHMENT. If the sheriff cannot find any property of the defendant, or sufficient to satisfy the attachment, he may summon any persons named in the writ, who are indebted to, or have goods, effects, or credits of the defendant in their hands; and in any case on the return of an execution unsatisfied, any person having property of the defendant or indebted to him may be summoned into court to answer concerning the same.

JUDGMENT becomes a lien on the real estate of the defendant in any county by filing in such county an abstract of the judgment, and continues as such for six years, but execution must issue within one year. From the time that the execution is delivered to the officer the judgment becomes a lien on all the goods and chattels of the debtor.

STAY LAW. There is no stay of execution in Colorado except on appeal or in case of a writ of error by a supersedeas.

EXEMPTIONS. The following property of a person being the head of a family is exempt, and if the head of the family dies the family is entitled to the same exemption: The pictures, school-books, and library of the debtor; a seat or pew in church; one burial lot; necessary wearing apparel of the family; all beds and bedding, stoves and cooking utensils used by the debtor or his family, and other household furniture not exceeding one hundred dollars in value; provisions for the debtor and his family for six months, and fuel for six months; one bicycle, one sewing machine, the tools, implements, or stock-in-trade of a mechanic, miner, or other person, used and kept for the purpose of trade, not exceeding in value two hundred dollars; the library and implements of professional men, not exceeding three hundred dollars; working animals to the value of two hundred dollars; one cow and calf, ten sheep, and the necessary food for the same for six months, provided or growing, or both, also one farm wagon, one plow, harrow, and other farm implements, including harness and tackle for the team not exceeding fifty dollars; the wearing apparel and the working animals of any person to the value of two hundred dollars and U. S. pension money are also exempt from execution; the earnings of husband or wife, if the family is dependent in whole or in part on them for support, are exempt to the amount of sixty per

cent of the amount due at the time of levy, when such family resides in the State. Every householder, the head of a family, is entitled to a homestead to the value of two thousand dollars while such homestead is occupied by the owner or his or her family, but to secure this he must cause the word "homestead" to be entered on the margin of the recorded title signed by himself and attested by the recorder, together with the date of record.

CONNECTICUT.— ACTIONS. There is but one form of civil action, which is commenced by writ of summons or attachment, accompanied by the complaint, which contains a statement of the facts constituting the cause of action and a demand for the relief sought.

ATTACHMENT. The defendant's estate, real or personal, may be attached in all complaints containing a money demand at the commencement of the action or at the discretion of the court during the pendency of the same.

ARREST. Defendant cannot be arrested in any action founded on contract merely, except for breach of promise to marry, misconduct or neglect in any office or professional employment, or in actions against a public officer, trustee, or person acting in a fiduciary capacity to recover moneys received by him. Defendant may be arrested on mesne process or execution when the declaration sets forth that he contracted the debt by fraud, or that he con- . ceals, removes, or conveys away his property to prevent its being taken by legal process, or refuses to pay an admitted debt or judgment, having sufficient property to discharge the same concealed or withheld, or refuses to disclose rights of action with intent to prevent their being taken by foreign attachment.

GARNISHMENT. Goods concealed in the hands of agents so that they cannot be attached, or debts due from any person may be reached by process of foreign attachment.

JUDGMENT is not a lien on lands unless attached, or unless a certificate describing the court, date of judgment, names of parties, amount unsatisfied, and the premises on which the lien is claimed is recorded in the town where the lands lie.

STAY LAW. Stay of execution can be had only on appeal on a judgment against an executor or administrator in the settlement of an insolvent estate, in case of foreign attachment where it shall appear on scire facias that the debt due the principal is not yet payable, and on a judgment for a mortpagee in ejectment pending foreclosure of a mortgage.

EXEMPTIONS. The necessary apparel and bedding, household furniture ecessary for supporting life (which clause is construed liberally), the arms, nilitary equipments, uniforms, or musical instruments, owned by members of the militia, pension money received from the United States, implements of the debtor's trade, library not exceeding in value five hundred dollars, one cow not exceeding one hundred and fifty dollars in value, sheep not exceeding ten, or one hundred and fifty dollars in value, two swine, and two hundred pounds of pork, and poultry not exceeding twenty-five dollars in value. Of the property of any one having a wife or family, twenty-five bushels of charcoal, two tons of other coal, two hundred pounds of wheat flour, and two cords of wood, two tons of hay, two hundred pounds of beef and fish each, five bushels each of potatoes and turnips, ten bushels each of Indian corn and rye, or the meal and flour therefrom, twenty pounds each of wool and flax, or the yarn and cloth therefrom; the horse or bicycle of a practicing physician not exceeding two hundred dollars in value, and his saddle, bridle, harness, and buggy; one boat owned by one person and used by him in the business of planting or taking oysters or clams, or taking shad, together with the tackle, sails, rigging and mplements used in said business, not exceeding in value two hundred dolla one sewing machine, being the property of one person, one pew, and lot in a burying ground. Wages of any person including services of minor child not exceeding twenty-five dollars, except on a claim for personal board or rent and all benefits from charitable associations are exempt. Homestead to the value of one thousand dollars in any dwelling owned and occupied by the claimant is exempt, provided a declaration to that effect has been executed and recorded in the same manner as a deed of land, or inserted in the conveyance to him.

DELAWARE.-ACTIONS may be commenced by a writ of capias or summons, or in the case of a non-resident defendant by attachment of property. ARREST. The defendant may be arrested on mesne process, but, if he be a citizen of the State, only on plaintiff's filing an affidavit of fraud, except in actions for libel, slander, or injury to person or property accompanied with violence. A non-resident plaintiff cannot arrest on mesne process a non-resident defendant for debt contracted without the limits of the State.

The defendant can be arrested on execution only on affidavit of fraud, and when it appears by affidavit or the return on scire facias that he has no property in the county sufficient to pay the debt and costs.

ATTACHMENT. Writ of domestic attachment may issue after return by the officer showing that the defendant cannot be found, and proof of the cause of action, or on affidavit filed with the prothonotary that the defendant is justly indebted to the plaintiff in a sum exceeding fifty dollars, and has absconded from his usual place of abode, or gone out of the State with intent to defraud his creditors or to elude process, as it is believed. The proceeds of sale of property so attached are divided equally among defendant's creditors, except that the attaching creditors are entitled to a double share to the extent of their debt.

A writ of foreign attachment for debt but not for damages may issue against a person not an inhabitant of the State or foreign corporation after a return as above, or an affidavit that the defendant resides out of the State, and is justly indebted to the plaintiff in a sum exceeding fifty dollars.

GARNISHMENT. The property, rights, or credits of a defendant against whom judgment has been obtained, in the hands of a third party may be attached. JUDGMENT of Superior Court is a lien on real estate of the defendant for ten years from the date of entering same. After twenty years it is presumed to be paid.

STAY LAW. Execution on judgments for want of affidavit of defense may be stayed six months on giving good security. In suits before a magistrate six months' stay on defendant's pleading his freehold, nine months on giving security.

Judgments obtained at second term after suit are allowed a stay of three

months.

EXEMPTIONS. The family Bible, school books and family library, family pictures, a seat or pew in church, burial lot, all the wearing apparel of debtor and family, and in addition the tools, implements, and fixtures necessary for carrying on his trade or business, not exceeding seventy-five dollars in New Castle and Sussex Counties, and fifty dollars in Kent County. There is exempted to the head of the family, in addition to the above, other personal property (goods of merchantable character bought to be sold in transaction of debtor's business) not exceeding two hundred dollars in New Castle County, and not exceeding one hundred and fifty dollars consisting of household goods only in Kent County. There is no such additional exemption in Sussex County, and there is no such additional exemption when such exemption would prevent the collection of a debt due or growing due for labor or services (other than professional services) rendered by any clerk, mechanic or other employee of the debtor. Sewing machines owned and used by seamstresses or private families are also exempt.

In New Castle County 90% of all wages are exempt from attachment, except for board or lodging, or both, not exceeding $50.00. Widows in all cases shall have the same exemptions out of the husband's goods that he would have if living. Funeral expenses, reasonable bills for medicine and medical attendance, nursing and necessaries of last sickness are paid out of the personal property of a deceased person, before there is any application to the execution. The above exemptions extend to distress for rent. Pianos, piano playing attachments and organs leased or hired are exempt from execution or from distress for rent due from the person leasing or hiring, after notice of the lease to the landlord.

There is no homestead exemption.

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.-ACTIONS in the Supreme Court of the District are commenced by filing in the clerk's office a libel or information

bill, petition, or declaration, and service of writ and payment of deposit to secure costs of suit.

Plaintiff may include in his declaration all causes of action against the defendant, stating them in separate counts.

ARREST.- No person can be arrested in a civil suit, or imprisoned for debt other than fines.

ATTACHMENT.- Writs of attachment and garnishment may issue either at the commencement or during the pendency of the action, on plaintiff's filing an affidavit, supported by testimony of one or more witnesses, setting forth the grounds of action and that plaintiff has a good right to recover, and also stating either that defendant is a foreign corporation or a non-resident or has been absent therefrom at least six months and has estate or debts owing him in said District or evades service of process by concealing himself or withdrawing temporarily from the District, or has removed or is about to remove some of his property from the District to defeat just demands, or has assigned, disposed of, or secreted property, or is about to do so with intent to hinder, delay, or defraud creditors or fraudulently contracted the debt or incurred the obligation sued on. Attachment may be dissolved by defendant giving bond. The plaintiff must file an undertaking and bond.

JUDGMENT is a lien on real estate from the date of rendition and as long as the judgment remains in force.

STAY LAW. Execution is stayed only by appeal and filing a bond.

EXEMPTIONS. Wearing apparel of all persons; and to heads of families who are householders, beds, bedding, household furniture, stoves, cooking utensils, etc., not exceeding three hundred dollars in value; provisions for three months' support, whether provided or growing; fuel for three months; mechanics' tools, and implements of debtor's trade or business, amounting to two hundred dollars in value, with two hundred dollars' worth of stock for carrying on business of debtor or his family: library and implements of professional man or artist, to value of three hundred dollars; one horse, one mule, or yoke of oxen, one cart, wagon or dray, and harness for team; farming utensils, with food for such team for three months; and if debtor be a farmer, any other farming tools to the value of one hundred dollars; all family pictures, and all family library not exceeding in value four hundred dollars; one cow, one swine, six sheep. The earnings, not exceeding one hundred dollars per month, of actual residents of the District who are married persons, or who have to provide for the support of a family in the District, for two months preceding the issuing of process are also exempt. There is no homestead exemption.

FLORIDA. —ACTIONS at law are commenced by filing a præcipe with the clerk, and may be brought in the name of the real party in interest.

ARREST. There is no statute law authorizing the arrest of a defendant in a civil action.

ATTACHMENT may issue on the affidavit in writing before a justice of the peace or clerk of the circuit court, that the amount demanded is actually due, and that the plaintiff has reason to believe that the defendant will part with his property fraudulently before judgment can be obtained, or is actually moving his property out of the State, or is about to do so, or resides out of the State, or is removing or about to remove from the State, or absconds or conceals himself or his property or is fraudulently disposing of the same, or is removing or is about to remove beyond the judicial circuit in which he resides, and furnishing security for costs and damages. Writ of attachment may issue before the debt or demand is due, provided it will become due within nine months, on plaintiff's filing an affidavit that the amount claimed is actually an existing debt or demand, the amount and date when it will become due, and also that the debtor is actually removing his property be