1-423. Qualifications of bail.
The qualifications of bail must be as follows:
(1) Each of them must be a resident and freeholder within the State
(2) They must each be worth the amount specified in the order of arrest, exclusive of property exempt from execution; but the judge, on justification, may allow more than two bail to justify severally in amounts less than that expressed in the order, if the whole justification is equivalent to that of two sufficient bail. (C.C.P., s. 164; Code, s. 306; Rev., s. 740; C.S., s. 781.)
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.