Peck v. Michigan Central R. R.

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• finding no proof “from which a presumption can be drawn that [the owner] intended an abandonment of his homestead”
• while imprisoned, a person retains his homestead exemption as there must be a voluntary act by a person free from restraint and capable of making such a decision for that person to lose or acquire a residence
• while imprisoned, a person retains his homestead exemption as there must be a voluntary act by a person free from restraint and capable of making such a decision for that person to lose or acquire a residence
• person in jail was under legal disability
• person in jail was under legal disability
• incarceration under charge of murder

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).