34-13 - Householder may set apart exemption in personal estate.

§ 34-13. Householder may set apart exemption in personal estate.

If the householder does not set apart any real estate as before provided, orif what he does or has so set apart is not of the total value which he isentitled to hold exempt, he may, in addition to the property or estate whichhe is entitled to hold exempt under §§ 34-26, 34-27, 34-29, and 64.1-151.3,in the first case select and set apart by the writing required by § 34-14 tobe held by him as exempt under §§ 34-4 and 34-4.1, so much of his personalestate as shall not exceed the total value which he is entitled to holdexempt and, in the latter case, personal estate, the value of which, whenadded to the value of the real estate set apart, does not exceed such totalvalue.

(Code 1919, § 6539; 1975, c. 466; 1980, c. 167; 1990, c. 942; 1993, c. 150.)