47-18 Homestead - North Dakota Statutes

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CHAPTER 47-18HOMESTEAD47-18-01. Homestead exemption - Area and value. The homestead of any individual,whether married or unmarried, residing in this state consists of the land upon which the claimant
resides, and the dwelling house on that land in which the homestead claimant resides, with all its
appurtenances, and all other improvements on the land, the total not to exceed one hundred
thousand dollars in value, over and above liens or encumbrances or both. The homestead shall
be exempt from judgment lien and from execution or forced sale, except as otherwise provided in
this chapter. The homestead may not embrace different lots or tracts of land unless the lots or
tracts of land are contiguous. For purposes of this section, "contiguous" means two or more
tracts of real property which share a common point or which would share a common point but for
an intervening road or right of way.47-18-02. Head of family defined. Repealed by S.L. 1979, ch. 488,