Chap. 314.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3630 of the Code of Vir-
ginia as heretofore amended in relation to homestead exemption.
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Approved March 16, 1918.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
section thirty-six hundred and thirty of the Code of Virginia, as
heretofore amended, in relation to homestead exemption be amended
and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 3630. Exemption to householder from liability for his
debts of property of the value of two thousand dollars; in what
cases not allowed.—Every householder or head of a family residing
in this State shall be entitled, in addition to the property or estate
which he is entitled to hold exempt from levy, distress, or garnish-
ment under sections thirty-six hundred and fifty, thirty-six hundred
and fifty-one, and thirty-six hundred and fifty-two, to hold exempt
from levy, seizure, garnishment, or sale under any execution, order,
or process issued on any demand for a debt or liability on contract,
hereafter contracted, his real and personal property, or either, to be
selected by him, including money and debts due him, to the value of
not exceeding two thousand dollars; provided, that such exemption
shall not extend to any execution order or other process issued on
any demand in the following cases:

First. For the purchase price of said property or any part there-
of. Ifthe property purchased and not paid for be exchanged for or
converted into other property by the debtor, such last named prop-
erty shall not be exempted from the payment of such unpaid pur-
chase money under the provisions of this section.

Second. For services rendered by a laboring person or mechanic.

Third. For liabilities incurred by any public officer or officer
of a court, or any fiduciary, or any attorney at law for money col-
lected.

Fourth. For a lawful claim for any taxes, levies or assessments
accruing after the first day of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-six.

Fifth. For rent.

Sixth. For the legal or taxable fees of any public officer or officer
of a court.

Seventh. Said exemption shall not be claimed or held in a
shifting stock of merchandise (and such stock shall be considered
shifting after an assignment by the owner thereof for the benefit of
creditors and after a voluntary or involuntary adjudication in bank-
ruptcy), or in any property the conveyance of which by the home-
stead claimant has been set aside on the ground of fraud or want of
consideration. |

But this act shall not invalidate any homestead exemption hereto-
fore claimed under the provisions of the former Constitution, or
impair in any manner the right of any householder or head of a
family existing at the time that the present Constitution went into
effect, to select the exemption, or any part thereof, to which he was
entitled under the former Constitution; provided, that such right,
if hereafter exercised, be not in conflict with the exemption set forth
in sections one hundred and ninety and one hundred and ninety-one
of the present Constitution.

But no person who has selected and received the full exemption
allowed by the former Constitution shall be entitled to select an addi-
tional exemption under the present Constitution; and no person who
has selected and received part of the exemption allowed by the
former Constitution shall be entitled to select an additional exemp-
tion beyond the difference between the value of such part and a total
valuation of two thousand dollars.