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CHAPTER 25.

An Ordinance respecting Notaries Public.

(C.O., c. 25.)

Chapter 16, 1906, substituted.

CHAPTER 26.

An Ordinance to abolish Priority among Execution Creditors

(C.O., c. 26.)

Chapter 4, 1910 (2nd Session), substituted.

CHAPTER 27.

An Ordinance exempting certain Property from Seizure and
Sale under Execution.

THE

HE Lieutenant Governor, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Territories, enacts as follows:

Short title

Exemptions from seizure

SHORT TITLE.

1. This Ordinance may be cited as "The Exemptions Ordinance." C.O., c. 27, s. 1.

EXEMPTIONS.

2. The following real and personal property of an execution debtor and his family is hereby declared free from seizure by virtue of all writs of execution, namely:

1. The necessary and ordinary clothing of himself and his family;

2. Furniture, household furnishings, dairy utensils, swine and poultry to the extent of five hundred dollars;

3. The necessary food for the family of the execution debtor during six months which may include grain and flour or vegetables and meat either prepared for use or on foot:

4. Three oxen, horses or mules or any three of them, six cows, six sheep, three pigs and fifty domestic fowls besides the animals the execution debtor may have chosen to keep for food purposes and food for the same for the months of November, December, January, February, March and April, or for such of these months or portions thereof as may follow the date of seizure provided such seizure be made between the first day of August and the thirtieth day of April next ensuing;

5. The harness necessary for three animals, one waggon or two carts, one mower or cradle and scythe, one breaking plough, one cross plough, one set of harrows, one horse rake, one sewing machine, one reaper or binder, one set of sleighs and one seed dri!l;

6. The books of a professional man;

7. The tools and necessary implements to the extent of two hundred dollars used by the execution debtor in the practice of his trade or profession;

8. Seed grain sufficient to seed all his land under cultivation not exceeding eighty acres, at the rate of two bushels per acre, defendant to have choice of seed, and fourteen bushels of potatoes;

9. The homestead, provided the same be not more than one hundred and sixty acres; in case it be more the surplus may be sold subject to any lien or encumbrance thereon;

10. The house and buildings occupied by the execution debtors and also the lot or lots on which the same are situate according to the registered plan of the same to the extent of fifteen hundred dollars. C.O., c. 27, s. 2.

GENERAL.

3. The execution debtor shall be entitled to a choice from Debtor's choice the greater quantity of the same kind of articles which are hereby exempted from seizure. C.O., c. 27, s. 3.

forming

of judgment

4. Nothing in this Ordinance shall exempt from seizure any Article article except for the food, clothing and bedding of the execu- consideration tion debtor and his family, the price of which forms the subject matter of the judgment upon which the execution is issued. C.O., c. 27, s. 4.

family of

debtor

5. In case of the death of the execution debtor, his property Rights of exempt from seizure under execution shall be exempt from deceased seizure under execution against his personal representative if the said property is in the use and enjoyment of the widow and children or widow or children of the deceased and is necessary for the maintenance and support of the said widow and children or any of them. C.O., c. 27, s. 5.

debtors

6. The provisions of section 2 hereof shall not apply to any Absconding case where the debtor has absconded or is about to abscond from the Territories leaving no wife or family behind [nor to an execution issued upon a judgment or order for the payment No exemption of alimony]. C.O., c. 27, s. 6; 1901, c. 16, s. 1.

in case of alimony

Persons qualified as jurors

Persons

exempt

Service once in two years

Sheriff to furnish list of persons qualified

When trial by jury ordered clerk to produce list

THE

CHAPTER 28.

An Ordinance respecting Juries.

HE Lieutenant Governor, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Territories, enacts as follows:

1. Subject to the exemptions hereinafter mentioned all male British subjects over twenty-one and under sixty years of age shall be qualified to serve as jurors in cases tried by jury in the judicial district in which they reside. C.O., c. 28, s. 1.

2. The following persons are exempt from serving as jurors: (a) Ministers of religion;

(b) Members of the Legislative Assembly and officers thereof;

(c) Members of the North-West Mounted Police;

(d) Practising advocates;

(e) Medical practitioners;

(f) All salaried officials of the Dominion and North-West Governments;

(g) Licensed ferrymen and school teachers while so employed;

(h) All persons employed in the running of railway trains; (i) Telegraph operators while so employed;

(j) Postmasters. C.O., c. 28, s. 2.

3. No person shall be called upon to serve as a juror more than once in two years unless there shall not be a sufficient number of qualified persons to serve as jurors residing within the requisite distance of the place of trial as hereinafter mentioned. C.O., c. 28, s. 3.

4. The sheriff of each judicial district whenever required so to do by a judge of the Supreme Court shall furnish the clerk of the said court in such judicial district with a revised list containing in appropriate columns the names, residences and occupations of all persons within the said district qualified to serve as jurors. C.O., c. 28, s. 4.

5. Whenever an order has been made for the trial by jury of issues of fact in any civil cause the clerk shall make out from the last revised list of persons qualified to serve as jurors in his district a special list containing the names, residences and occupations of all such persons whose residences do not

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