# Small Debts Act 1845 (repealed 1.7.1991), Section 8: †Actual necessaries of judgment debtors not to be seized.

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. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 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.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/8-9/127/section/8 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/small-debts-act-1845-repealed-171991/section-8
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