42-21. Tenant's crop not subject to execution against landlord.
Whenever servants and laborers in agriculture shall by their contracts, oral or written, be entitled, for wages, to a part of the crops cultivated by them, such part shall not be subject to sale under executions against their employers, or the owners of the land cultivated. (Code, s. 1796; Rev., s. 1998; C.S., s. 2361.)
Structure North Carolina General Statutes
North Carolina General Statutes
Chapter 42 - Landlord and Tenant
Article 2 - Agricultural Tenancies.
§ 42-15 - Landlord's lien on crops for rents, advances, etc.; enforcement.
§ 42-15.1 - Landlord's lien on crop insurance for rents, advances, etc.; enforcement.
§ 42-17 - Action to settle dispute between parties.
§ 42-18 - Tenant's undertaking on continuance or appeal.
§ 42-19 - Crops delivered to landlord on his undertaking.
§ 42-20 - Crops sold, if neither party gives undertaking.
§ 42-21 - Tenant's crop not subject to execution against landlord.
§ 42-22 - Unlawful seizure by landlord or removal by tenant misdemeanor.
§ 42-22.1 - Failure of tenant to account for sales under tobacco marketing cards.
§ 42-23 - Terms of agricultural tenancies in certain counties.