The homestead must embrace the house used as a home by the owner, and, if the owner has two or more houses thus used, the owner may select which the owner will retain. It may contain one or more contiguous lots or tracts of land, with the building and other appurtenances thereon, habitually and in good faith used as part of the same homestead.
[C51, § 1250, 1251; R60, § 2282, 2283; C73, § 1994, 1995; C97, § 2977; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, § 10135; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 561.1]
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