34-18 - Rents and profits exempt; increase in value of estate set apart.

§ 34-18. Rents and profits exempt; increase in value of estate set apart.

The rents and profits of the property set apart shall be exempt in the samemanner as the corpus of such property and if the whole real and personalestate set apart be not of greater value than the amount the householder isentitled to exempt at the time it is so set apart, the exemption thereofshall not be affected by any increase in its value afterwards, unless suchincrease consists of permanent improvements placed upon real estate set apartby means derived from some source other than exempt property.

(Code 1919, § 6544; 1975, c. 466; 1977, c. 496; 1990, c. 942.)