§ 10-5-13 - Defendant's bond.

SECTION 10-5-13

   § 10-5-13  Defendant's bond. – The defendant in any writ upon which goods and chattels shall have beenattached may, at any time within forty-eight (48) hours, exclusive of Sundaysand legal holidays, after the attachment, deliver to the officer a bond in thepenal sum of the amount of damages laid in the writ, signed by the defendant orsomeone in his or her behalf, with surety or sureties to the satisfaction ofthe officer, with a condition in the surety that the surety shall be null andvoid if the final judgment or decree in the action or cause in which the writwas served shall be immediately paid and satisfied after the rendition thereof.