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3 canonical passages across 3 cases, quoted by 9 opinions in total. These passages cluster together because the same opinions keep quoting them side by side — they state parts of one doctrine. The anchor passage is from Daily v. City of Gulfport.

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1 Daily v. City of Gulfport Anchor
miss · 1951
green “statutes granting homestead exemption are entitled to be liberally construed” 3
2 Biggs v. Roberts
miss · 1959
green “exemption laws are construed liberally in favor of the owner of the property exempted” 3
3 Zukoski v. McIntyre
· 1908
green “the homestead right being a favored one in law, whenever there is serious doubt as to whether the property is or is not a homestead, the doubt should be resolved in favor of the exemptionist, sustaining, instead of defeating, the estate, which is created by sound public policy.” 3

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