Legal Status of Women in Iowa eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 80 pages of information about Legal Status of Women in Iowa.

Legal Status of Women in Iowa eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 80 pages of information about Legal Status of Women in Iowa.

[Sidenote:  Purchase money.]

None of the exemptions prescribed in this chapter shall be allowed against an execution issued for the purchase money of property claimed to be exempt, and on which such execution is levied. [Sec.4302.]

[Sidenote:  Absconding debtor.]

Where a debtor absconds and leaves his family, such property shall be exempt in the hands of the wife and children, or either of them. [Sec.4303.]

[Sidenote:  Sewing machine.]

If the debtor is a seamstress, one sewing-machine shall be exempt from execution and attachment. [Sec.4304.]

[Sidenote:  Pension money.]

All money received by any person, resident of the state, as a pension from the United States government; whether the same shall be in the actual possession of such pensioner, or deposited, loaned, or invested by him, shall be exempt from execution or attachment, or seizure by or under any legal process whatever, whether such pensioner shall be the head of a family or not. [Sec.4305.]

[Sidenote:  Homestead.]

The homestead of every such pensioner, whether the head of a family or not, purchased and paid for with any such pension money, or the proceeds or accumulations of such pension money, shall also be exempt as is now provided by law of this state in relation to homesteads; and such exemption shall also apply to debts of such pensioner contracted prior to the purchase of such homestead. [Sec.4306.]

[Sidenote:  Damages.]

Where a wrongful act produces death, and the deceased leaves a husband, wife, child or parent, the damages shall not be liable for the payment of debts. [Sec.3731.]

CHAPTER X.

CRIMINAL LAW-ILLEGITIMATE CHILDREN.

[Sidenote:  Rape.]

If any person ravish or carnally know any female of the age of thirteen years or more, by force and against her will, or carnally know and abuse any female child under the age of thirteen years, he shall be punished by imprisonment in the penitentiary for life or any term of years. [Sec.5160.]

[Sidenote:  Intent to commit rape.]

If any person assault a female with intent to commit a rape he shall be punished by imprisonment in the penitentiary not exceeding twenty years. [Sec.5172.]

[Sidenote:  Compelling to marry.]

If any person take any woman unlawfully and against her will, and by force, menace or duress, compel her to marry him, or to be defiled, he shall be fined not exceeding one thousand dollars and imprisoned in the penitentiary not exceeding ten years. [Sec.5161.]

[Sidenote:  Carnal knowledge.]

If any person have carnal knowledge of any female by administering to her any substance, or by any other means producing such stupor or such imbecility of mind or weakness of body as to prevent effectual resistance, or have such carnal knowledge of an idiot or female naturally of such imbecility of mind or weakness of body, as to prevent effectual resistance, he shall upon conviction, be punished as provided in the section relating to ravishment. [Sec.5162.]

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