(a) If the premises so owned and occupied by the debtor or claimed under the debtor by another as exempt shall exceed the area herein prescribed, and the homestead shall not have been set apart as such and its boundaries defined, an attachment or execution may be levied upon the whole. Thereupon the person entitled to the benefits of such exemption shall deliver to the officer making the levy a description of the part claimed as exempt, and the remainder only shall be subject to the levy so made.
(b) If the premises so owned and occupied by the debtor or claimed under the debtor by another as exempt exceeds the value prescribed in section 510.02, an attachment or execution may be levied upon the whole.
History: (8343) RL s 3459; 1986 c 444; 1993 c 79 s 4