1-420. Defendant's undertaking.
The defendant may give bail by causing a written undertaking, payable to the plaintiff, to be executed by sufficient surety to the effect that the defendant shall at all times render himself amendable to the process of the court, during the pendency of the action, and to such as may be issued to enforce the judgment therein, or if he is arrested in an action to recover the possession of personal property unjustly claimed, an undertaking to the same effect as that provided by law to be given by defendant for the retention of property, under the Article entitled Claim and Delivery. (C.C.P., s. 157; Code, s. 299; Rev., s. 738; C.S., s. 778.)
Structure North Carolina General Statutes
North Carolina General Statutes
§ 1-409 - Arrest only as herein prescribed.
§ 1-410 - In what cases arrest allowed.
§ 1-411 - Order and affidavit.
§ 1-412 - Undertaking before order.
§ 1-413 - Issuance and form of order.
§ 1-414 - Copies of affidavit and order to defendant.
§ 1-416 - Vacation of order for failure to serve.
§ 1-417 - Motion to vacate order; jury trial.
§ 1-418 - Counter affidavits by plaintiff.
§ 1-419 - How defendant discharged.
§ 1-420 - Defendant's undertaking.
§ 1-421 - Defendant's undertaking delivered to clerk; exception.
§ 1-422 - Notice of justification; new bail.
§ 1-423 - Qualifications of bail.
§ 1-424 - Justification of bail.
§ 1-426 - Deposit in lieu of bail.
§ 1-427 - Deposit paid into court; liability on sheriff's bond.
§ 1-428 - Bail substituted for deposit.
§ 1-429 - Deposit applied to plaintiff's judgment.
§ 1-430 - Defendant in jail, sheriff may take bail.
§ 1-431 - When sheriff liable as bail.
§ 1-432 - Action on sheriff's bond.
§ 1-434 - Surrender of defendant.
§ 1-435 - Bail may arrest defendant.
§ 1-436 - Proceedings against bail by motion.
§ 1-437 - Liability of bail to sheriff.