who acquired said property, real and personal, goods and chattels, rights and credits, interests and estates during his residence in said territory; also, all the property, real and personal, goods and chattels, rights and credits, interests and estates belonging to the estate and in the hands of the executor or executors, administrator or administrators of such deceased person, or in the hands of the guardian or guardians of the minor children of such deceased person; and also all the property, real and personal, goods and chattels, rights and credits, interests and estates in this territory, owned by any woman married or single, residing in this territory, and acquired by her during residence in said territory, be and the same is hereby declared to be exempt from levy, seizure, or sale, by virtue of any execution, writ of attachment, or any other final process of a court, founded upon any debt, demand, or liability contracted or incurred without the limits of this territory.
Sect. 2. No judgment obtained in any court in or out of this territory, upon any indebtedness as mentioned in section first of this act, shall in anywise operate as a lien upon any property, real or personal, goods or chattels, rights or credits, interests or estates, exempted from levy, seizure, and sale by the provisions of this act.
Sect. 3. Nothing in this act shall prevent any person, residing in or out of this territory, from bringing suit against any person owning property in this territory, and prosecuting his or her lawful demand against such person to final judgment.
Sect. 4. This act shall take effect from and after its passage, and approval by the governor.
- Approved May 5, 1862.
