42-18. Tenant's undertaking on continuance or appeal.
In case there is a continuance or an appeal from the magistrate's decision to the district court, the lessee or cropper, or the assigns of either, shall be allowed to retain possession of said property upon his giving an undertaking to the lessor or his assigns, or the adverse party, in a sum double the amount of the claim, if such claim does not amount to more than the value of such property, otherwise to double the value of such property, with good and sufficient surety, to be approved by the magistrate or the clerk of the superior court, conditioned for the faithful payment to the adverse party of such damages as he shall recover in said action. (1876-7, c. 283, s. 3; Code, s. 1756; Rev., s. 1995; C.S., s. 2358; 1971, c. 533, s. 2.)
Structure North Carolina General Statutes
North Carolina General Statutes
Chapter 42 - Landlord and Tenant
Article 2 - Agricultural Tenancies.
§ 42-15 - Landlord's lien on crops for rents, advances, etc.; enforcement.
§ 42-15.1 - Landlord's lien on crop insurance for rents, advances, etc.; enforcement.
§ 42-17 - Action to settle dispute between parties.
§ 42-18 - Tenant's undertaking on continuance or appeal.
§ 42-19 - Crops delivered to landlord on his undertaking.
§ 42-20 - Crops sold, if neither party gives undertaking.
§ 42-21 - Tenant's crop not subject to execution against landlord.
§ 42-22 - Unlawful seizure by landlord or removal by tenant misdemeanor.
§ 42-22.1 - Failure of tenant to account for sales under tobacco marketing cards.
§ 42-23 - Terms of agricultural tenancies in certain counties.