with costs, when the execution is stayed as follows: If judgment be not more than $15, execution will be stayed one month; if more than $15 and under $60, three months; and where it exceeds $60, six months.

Exemptions. All wearing apparel and other personal property to the amount of $200. A homestead, including lot and building, occupied as a residence, by a debtor with a family, to the value of $1,000.

Garnishment.-Can be effected only in attachment cases, and where execution is returned "Nulla bona," and judgment creditor makes oath that debtor has goods and property to the amount of $50 or over which he conceals, in which case debtor can be compelled to discover under oath, and in case of a discovery the Court will appoint a receiver with powers to take property of debtor and to collect all moneys due him, except for the personal services of himself or of any of his family.

Interest. The legal rate is six per cent. In case of usury, the creditor recovers only the actual amount loaned, without interest and without costs.

Judgments recovered in the Justice or District Courts are no lien until actual levy, and under the execution issued thereon only person property can be seized. Such judgments may be made a lien on real estate by docketing them in the Common Pleas Court. Judgments recovered in the other courts are liens on real estate from the time of entry, but are not liens upon personal property until the execution shall have been actually delivered to the officer. In case of several judgments, that wherein the first levy is made takes priority, though of subsequent date. Judgments recovered in the Supreme Court are liens on all lands of the debtor in the State. Judgments recovered in the Circuit and Common Pleas Courts are liens only in the county where judgment is recovered, but may be made liens upon all lands of the debtor in the State by being docketed in the Supreme Court.

Limitations.-Actions for slander must be sued within two years; upon constable's bond and trespass for assault to the person, within four years; all actions of trespass quare clausum fregit, trespass, trover, detinue and replevin, debts not founded on specialty, all actions of account, and on the case, within six years; actions on sheriff's bond, within nine years; actions on specialty for the payment of

money, or award under seal, or for rent on lease under seal, within sixteen years; and on judgments within twenty years. Part payment, or a written acknowledgment or promise to pay, will revive an outlawed debt. In all the above cases the statute is suspended during the non-residence of the debtor, except where plaintiff is also a non-resident, and the cause of action accrued out of the State.

Married Women.-A married woman may take, receive, and hold real, and personal property, as if single. Her wages or earnings from any employment or trade, carried on by her separately from her husband, and all investments of such wages, earnings, etc., are her sole and separate property, as though she were a single woman.

She may bind herself by contract, in the same manner and to the same extent as though she were unmarried, and such contract may be enforced at law or in equity, by or against her, in her own name, apart from her husband, provided that she cannot bind herself as "an accommodation indorser, guarantor, or surety."

She may execute conveyances of real estate without joining her husband, in some exceptional cases, as where he is an idiot, lunatic, or of unsound mind, or imprisoned on conviction of crime, or when she is living in a state of separation from him, under the final judgment or decree of any court.

She may also execute a valid will of her real and personal property, except that she cannot deprive her husband of his estate by the curtesy.

Qualifications for Voting.-Every male citizen of the United States, residence in State for one year, in county five months, and twenty-one years of age.

Wills. Any person over 21 may make a will. A married woman may will her separate estate, but cannot take away her husband's interest in her real estate. Every will must be signed by the testator, or the writing acknowledged by him in the presence of two witnesses. He must declare at the same time that the paper is his will, and the witnesses must subscribe their names as such in his presence and in the presence of each other. Wills are recorded in the Surrogate's office.

SPECIAL LAWS OF NEW MEXICO.

Arrest.-Any creditor whose demand is $50 or more may sue out a writ of capias against his debtor, in the District Court, (for a less amount the proceeding may be instituted before a justice of the peace.) As a foundation for the writ, an affidavit must be made and filed, reciting the indebtedness, and alleging that the debtor is about to abscond from the Territory, so as to endanger the collection of the debt; and a bond must be given, with a penalty of double the amount claimed.

Assignment. No statutory provision has been enacted for assignments for the benefit of creditors.

Chattel Mortgages.-Must be filed with Recorder of the county. Good for one year. May then be renewed by filing an affidavit of the mortgagee showing the amount still due. This must be done every year or it is void as against creditors and purchasers.

Divorce.-Causes: (1) Abandonment; (2) cruel and inhuman treatment; (3) adultery. Strict proof is required in all cases.

Executions.-Issue at once on the entering of judgment, and are returnable in sixty days. There is no stay of execution, except in case of an appeal. When the execution is returned not satisfied, an alias can issue.

Exemptions clothing, beds, etc.; fuel for thirty days; Bibles, hymn-books, testaments, school-books, family and religious pictures; provisions to the amount of $25; kitchen furniture, to the amount of $10; all tools and implements of trade, not to exceed $20 in value.

A homestead to the value of $1,000, belonging to a head of a family.

Garnishment.-By garnishment, money and property due defendant or held by others may be collected.

Interest. Where there is no agreement, six per cent. is the legal rate, and twelve per cent. is fixed as the maximum to be charged in any event. Open accounts bear interest from six months after date. It is a misdemeanor to charge over twelve per cent.

Limitations.-First.-Actions upon a judgment of any court of record of any State or Territory of the U. S., or the federal courts of the U. S., must be brought within 15 years.

Second.-Actions founded upon any bond, promissory note, bills of exchange, or any other contract in writing, or upon any judgment of any court not of record, must be brought within six years.

Third.-Actions founded upon accounts and unwritten contracts, and brought for injuries to property, or for the conversion of personal property, or for relief upon the ground of fraud, and all other actions not mentioned above, must be brought within four years.

Fourth.-Actions of replevin must be brought within one year from the time the cause of action accrued.

Fifth.-Possession of real estate uninterrupted for ten years, held under color of title, bars all claims except as to infants, married women, &c.

Married Women.-May hold the property, owned by them in their own right at the time of their marriage, or acquired by inheritance, and may acquire property after marriage; and are entitled to one half of all the acquest property, that is, the property acquired by the husband and wife during their married relations; said acquest property, however, being liable for their joint indebtedness. They may make contracts with the consent of their husbands, and their property is not liable for husband's debts.

Wills.-Males over 14 and females over 12 may make wills. Wills may be either written or verbal. If in writing, they must be signed by the testator and attested by three witnesses. If the testator is unable to write, some other person may sign at his request. Verbal wills must be proved by five witnesses.

SPECIAL LAWS OF NEW YORK.

Arrest. The defendant may be arrested and held to bail, where an action is brought to recover a fine or penalty; to recover damages for personal injury; for an injury to property, including the wrongful taking, detention, or conversion of personal property; for breach of promise to marry; for misconduct or neglect in office or in a professional employment; for fraud or deceit; to recover money, funds, credits, or property held or owned by the State, or held or owned officially or otherwise, for or in behalf of a public or governmental interest, by a municipal or other public corporations, board, officer, custodian, agency, or agent of the State, or of a city, county, town, village, or other division, sub-division, department or portion of the State, which the defendant has without right obtained, received, converted, or disposed of; or to recover damages for so obtaining, receiving, paying, converting, or disposing of the same; upon contract, express or implied, other than a promise to marry, where it is alleged in the complaint that the defendant was guilty of a fraud in contracting or incurring the liability; to recover a chattel, where the chattel, or a part thereof has been concealed, removed or disposed of, so that it cannot be found or taken by the sheriff, and with intent that it should not be so found or taken, or to deprive the plaintiff of the benefit thereof; upon contract, express or implied, other than a promise to marry, where the defendant has, since the making of the contract, or in contemplation of making the same, removed or disposed of his property with intent to defraud his creditors, or is about to remove or dispose of the same with like intent; in an action for usurping, intruding into, unlawfully holding, or exercising an office, brought in the name of the people; to recover for money received, or to recover property or damages for the conversion or misapplication of property, where the money was received, or the property was embezzled or fraudulently misapplied by a public officer, or by an attorney, solicitor or counsellor, or by an officer or agent of a cor