2A:17-19.Ā  Amount;Ā  exceptions Goods and chattels, shares of stock or interests in any corporation and personal property of every kind, not exceeding in value, exclusive of wearing apparel, $1,000.00, and all wearing apparel, the property of a debtor shall be reserved, both before and after his death, for his use or that of his family orĀ  his estate, and shall not be liable to be seized or taken by virtue of any execution or civil process whatever, issued out of any court of this State.

Nothing herein contained shall be deemed or held to protect from sale underĀ  execution or other process any goods, chattels or property, for the purchaseĀ  whereof the debt or demand for which the judgment on which such execution orĀ  process was issued, shall have been contracted, or to apply to process issuedĀ  for the collection of taxes or assessments.

L.1951 (1st SS), c.344; amended by L.1973, c. 162, s. 1, eff. June 7, 1973.
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