9-315.Exemption.

Distress for rent does not reach everything a tenant owns. Section 9-315 ties the exemption for distress to an existing body of law: the same articles of personal property that are exempt by law from the enforcement of a judgment are also exempt from distress for rent. Rather than listing its own catalog of protected items, this section piggybacks on the general judgment-enforcement exemptions found elsewhere in the Code.

The statute then carves out one significant exception to that borrowed protection: crops grown or growing upon the demised premises. Even if crops would otherwise qualify as exempt property under the judgment-enforcement rules, this section removes that protection for crops on the leased land, leaving them open to distress.

That carve-out lines up with the rest of this Part's focus on agricultural rent arrangements — Section 9-314 lets a landlord distrain for rent payable in crops, and Section 9-316 gives the landlord a lien specifically on crops grown on the premises. Exempting crops from the general protection keeps those crop-focused remedies from being undercut by an exemption that would otherwise place them out of reach.