{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/small-debts-act-1845-repealed-171991/section-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/small-debts-act-1845-repealed-171991/section-8.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/8-9/127",
  "legislation_title": "Small Debts Act 1845 (repealed 1.7.1991)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/small-debts-act-1845-repealed-171991",
  "path": "section/8",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "†Actual necessaries of judgment debtors not to be seized.",
  "text": ". . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The wearing apparel and bedding of any judgment debtor or his family, and the tools and implements of his trade, the value of such apparel, bedding, tools, and implements not exceeding in the whole the prescribed value, shall not be liable to seizure under any execution or order of any court against his goods and chattels.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Recital omitted under authority of Statute Law Revision Act 1891 (c. 67)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words substituted by Administration of Justice Act 1956 (c. 46), s. 37(1)(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Unreliable marginal note."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "“The prescribed value” means £20 or such larger amount as may be prescribed by order of Lord Chancellor: Administration of Justice Act 1956 (c. 46), s. 37(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/8-9/127/section/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:32:58.157126+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}