143 P. 1136 | Or. | 1914
delivered the opinion of the court.
Are the proceeds arising from the voluntary sale of exempt personal property liable to execution, when the fund so obtained is intended to be reinvested in exempt property? If so, is the answer herein sufifi
“When exempt personal property is exchanged for property in kind or like character, the property received in exchange is. also exempt; but when property is sold for money, or is exchanged for merchandise or other property not exempt under the law, the money or the property received in exchange is liable to execution”: 18 Cyc. 1443.
Our statute prescribing the kind of chattels of a judgment debtor that are not liable to seizure and sale contains clauses which read:
“All property * * of the judgment debtor shall be liable to an execution, except as in this section provided. The following property shall be exempt from execution: * * 3. The * * ‘team’ * * necessary to enable any person to carry on the trade, occupation or profession, by which, such person habitually earns his living, to the value of $400. * * 7. No article of property, or if the same has been sold or exchanged, then neither the proceeds of such sale nor the article received in exchange therefor, shall be exempt from execution issued on a judgment recovered for its price”: Section 227, L. O. L.
‘ ‘ Wherever this rule prevails, and it does not clearly appear whether certain property is or is not embraced within the exempting statute, the debtor will generally be allowed the benefit of the doubt, and suffered to retain the property. ”
The order brought up for review was proper under the circumstances, and it is affirmed.
Affirmed. Rehearing Denied.