Kendall v. Parker

Fish; C. J.

I. A debtor seeking to take the benefit of the exemption commonly called the statutory or short homestead “shall make out a schedule of the property claimed to be exempt, and return the same to the ordinary of the County.” Civil Code (1910), §§ 3416, 3417. A schedule of property so returned to the ordinary must be of particular property falling within the classes specified in the statute. A schedule .which purports to be an exemption, wherein no effort is made to specify any particular property as exempt, but setting forth an exact copy of the entire statute contained in the Civil…