6-9-81
Section 6-9-81 Indemnity bond. (a) When a reasonable doubt exists whether the personal property
levied on belongs to the defendant or whether personal property alleged to be his is subject
to levy and sale, the sheriff may require of the plaintiff, his agent or attorney a bond of
indemnity, and if it is not given within 10 days thereafter, he may restore the property to
the defendant, if levied on, or decline to levy, if one has not been made; but he may be required
to levy and sell at any time thereafter on being indemnified. (b) If any party having the
prior lien refuses to give such indemnity on demand of the sheriff, the party having the next
lien in order may give it and have the property sold for his benefit. (Code 1852, §§2444,
2445; Code 1867, §§2858, 2859; Code 1876, §§3196, 3197; Code 1886, §§2905, 2906; Code
1896, §§1903, 1904; Code 1907, §§4107, 4108; Code 1923, §§7822, 7823; Code 1940, T.
7, §§533, 534.)...
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6-9-160
Section 6-9-160 Restoration of property levied on to debtor upon executing bond; execution
on forfeiture of bond; exception. (a) When personal property is levied on by the sheriff,
if the defendant executes bond with sufficient surety in double the amount of the execution
payable to the plaintiff and conditioned to deliver the property levied on to the proper officer
by 12:00 noon of the day and at the place appointed for the sale thereof, the sheriff must
restore the property to the defendant. (b) If the property is not delivered according to the
condition of the bond, the sheriff must return it forfeited within five days thereafter to
the register or clerk's office out of which the execution issued, endorsing thereon a forfeiture
of the bond; and it is then the duty of the clerk or register, without delay, to issue execution
on the forfeited bond against all the obligors therein for the judgment and costs, upon which
no security of any kind can be taken, which he must endorse on the...
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6-6-259
Section 6-6-259 Actions by mortgagees or vendor in conditional sale contract, etc., against
mortgagors or vendees, etc. (a) If the action is by a mortgagee or his assignee against a
mortgagor, or one holding under him, or by a vendor who has made a conditional sale reserving
the title until the entire purchase money shall be paid, or his assignee, against his vendee
or one holding under him, the defendant may, upon suggestion, require that the jury ascertain
the amount of the mortgage debt or the unpaid balance of the purchase price of the article
sold; and if the debt due is ascertained to be less than the value of the property sued for
as assessed by the jury, judgment must be entered for the property sued for or if that is
not to be had, then for the amount of the debt as ascertained by the jury. The court must
also make an order that, if the debt so ascertained, interest and costs, shall be paid within
30 days, no execution or other process shall issue on the judgment; and on...
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6-6-80
Section 6-6-80 Indemnification of sheriff by plaintiff. When a doubt exists as to the title
of the defendant to personal property which the sheriff is required to levy upon, he may demand
indemnity from the plaintiff. (Code 1852, §2532; Code 1867, §2959; Code 1876, §3285; Code
1886, §2963; Code 1896, §554; Code 1907, §2954; Code 1923, §6202; Code 1940, T. 7, §875.)...

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6-6-160
Section 6-6-160 Claim of persons not party to writ of execution or attachment, etc., to personal
property levied on; affidavit and bond; delivery of property to claimant. When an execution,
attachment or other like writ, issued from any court or by any officer, is levied on personal
property as to which any person not a party to the writ claims to own the title, legal, or
equitable, or a lien paramount to the right, title, or interest in the property of the defendant
in the writ, such person may try the right to such property before a sale thereof upon making
affidavit by himself, his agent, or attorney, which may be taken by the officer levying the
writ or any officer authorized to administer oaths that he holds such title to, or such lien
upon, the property claimed and executing bond with two good and sufficient sureties, to be
approved by the officer making the levy and payable to the plaintiff in double the value of
the property levied on and claimed, the value thereof to be...
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6-6-250
Section 6-6-250 Duty of clerk to require taking of property by sheriff unless defendant gives
bond; disposition of property on failure to give bond. (a) When an action is commenced for
the recovery of personal chattels in specie, if the plaintiff, his agent, or attorney makes
affidavit that the property sued for belongs to the plaintiff and executes a bond in such
sum and with such surety as may be approved by the clerk, with condition that if the plaintiff
fails in the action, he will pay the defendant all such costs and damages as he may sustain
by the wrongful complaint, it is the duty of the clerk to endorse on the summons that the
sheriff is required to take the property mentioned in the complaint into his possession unless
the defendant gives bond payable to the plaintiff, with sufficient surety, in double the value
of the property, with condition that if the defendant fails in the action he will, within
30 days thereafter, deliver the property to the plaintiff and pay all costs...
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6-10-25
Section 6-10-25 Declaration of claimed exemptions - Contesting of claims. A plaintiff, in person
or by his or her agent or attorney, may contest a claim of exemption after a declaration thereof
has been filed by making and filing with the officer holding the process an affidavit that,
in his belief, either the claim is invalid entirely or it is invalid in part or is excessive,
specifying wherein such invalidity or excess consists, and if excessive, also specifying the
property alleged to be in excess, to be, in all cases, the last named in the claim. If the
claim is of personal property, he or she must also deliver to the officer a bond in double
the value of the property sought to be levied on, with sureties to be approved by the officer,
payable to the defendant claiming the exemption and conditioned that if the plaintiff fails
in the contest, he or she will pay the defendant all such costs and damages as he or she may
sustain by reason of the wrongful institution of the contest....
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6-6-597
Section 6-6-597 Addition of person rightly entitled to office; entry of judgment on such right;
delivery of books, papers, and property. (a) When the action is commenced against a person
for usurping an office, the name of the person rightly entitled to the office, with a statement
of his right thereto, may be added, and, when added, judgment may be entered upon the right
of the defendant and also upon the right of the party so alleged to be entitled or only upon
the right of the defendant, as justice may require. (b) If judgment is entered upon the right
of the person so alleged to be entitled and the same is in favor of such person, he is entitled,
after taking the oath of office and executing such official bond as may be required, to take
upon himself the execution of the office, and it is his duty, immediately thereafter, to demand
of the defendant all the books, papers, and property in his custody, or within his power,
belonging to the office. On refusal or neglect to deliver over...
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6-6-740
Section 6-6-740 Judgment for failure to pay over money collected or deliver personal property
recovered in capacity as attorney. (a) Judgment may, in like manner, be summarily entered
against any attorney-at-law in this state who fails to pay over money collected by him or
deliver personal property recovered by him in that capacity, whether by an action or otherwise,
on demand made by the person entitled thereto, his agent or attorney for the amount collected
or the value of the property recovered, less the amount due the attorney for fees or compensation
for services, interest thereon, and damages at the rate of five percent a month, after such
demand, on the aggregate amount, in the circuit court of the county in which such attorney
resides or, if he has no known place of residence in this state, in the circuit court of any
county, on three days' personal notice; but such attorney may, if a doubt exists as to the
right of the person making the demand or if there is a dispute as to...
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6-10-38
Section 6-10-38 Contest of exemption claim - Proceedings when homestead found to exceed value
or area allowed. (a) If, on the trial of a contest of a claim of homestead exemption, it is
found that the homestead as claimed exceeds $5,000 in value (or if a husband and wife have
both claimed the exemption to which each is entitled, $10,000), or 160 acres in area, the
court shall forthwith issue an order to the sheriff, returnable in 30 days thereafter, commanding
him to summon three disinterested householders or freeholders of the county in which the homestead
is situated, who, after having been sworn by the sheriff or some officer authorized to administer
oaths to faithfully discharge their duty, shall, if practicable, set off and allot, by metes
and bounds, the homestead exempt to the defendant from levy and sale under process, having
regard both to the quality and value of the real estate and to the selection of the defendant
and taking land most contiguous to the dwelling, and...
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