TITLE 12

COSTS AND MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS IN CIVIL ACTIONS

CHAPTER 6

GENERAL PROVISIONS

12-614.  Justification of sureties. In all cases where an undertaking, with sureties, is required by the provisions of this code, the officer taking the same must require the sureties to accompany it with an affidavit that they are each residents and householders or freeholders within the state, and each are worth the sum specified in the undertaking, over and above all their just debts and liabilities, exclusive of property exempt from execution; but when the amount specified in the undertaking exceeds $2000.00, and there are more than two (2) sureties thereon, they may state in their affidavits that they are severally worth amounts less than that expressed in the undertaking, if the whole amount be equivalent to that of two sufficient sureties.

History:

[(12-614) C.C.P. 1881, sec. 721; R.S., R.C., & C.L., sec. 4934; C.S., sec. 7237; I.C.A., sec. 12-614.]