§651-51 - Indemnity bond.
§651-51 Indemnity bond. The sheriff, deputy sheriff, or police officer may decline to levy upon or sell the alleged property of any person against whose goods and effects an execution or other similar writ may issue, unless the party beneficially interested in the writ shall, upon request, tender to the officer a sufficient bond of indemnity against all costs and expenses which the officer may sustain in consequence of seizure or sale of the property, and the claims of third parties. [L 1888, c 8, §18; am L 1907, c 12, §1; RL 1925, §2453; RL 1935, §4154; RL 1945, §10181; RL 1955, §233-50; am L 1963, c 85, §3; HRS §651-51; gen ch 1985; am L 1989, c 211, §10; am L 1990, c 281, §11]
Cross References
Sheriff, etc., see §26-14.6.
Case Notes
Bonds, sureties. 30 H. 658, 663.