TITLE 8

PROVISIONAL REMEDIES IN CIVIL ACTIONS

CHAPTER 1

ARREST AND BAIL

8-112.  Surrender — How made — Exoneration or charge of bail. For the purpose of surrendering the defendant, the bail, at any time or place before they are finally charged, may themselves arrest, or, by a written authority indorsed on a certified copy of the undertaking, may empower the sheriff to do so. Upon the arrest of defendant by the sheriff, or upon his delivery to the sheriff by the bail, or upon his own surrender, the bail are exonerated, if such arrest, delivery or surrender take place before the expiration of ten (10) days after judgment; but if such arrest, delivery or surrender be not made within ten (10) days after judgment, the bail are finally charged on their undertaking, and bound to pay the amount of the judgment within ten (10) days thereafter.

History:

[(8-112) C.C.P. 1881, sec. 281; R.S., R.C., & C.L., sec. 4251; C.S., sec. 6740; I.C.A., sec. 6-112.]