If any officer levy or is required to levy an execution or a warrant of distress on property, and a doubt shall arise whether such property is liable to such levy, he may give to the plaintiff, his agent, or attorney at law, notice that an indemnifying bond is required in the case. Bond may thereupon be given by any person, with good security, payable to the officer, in a penalty equal to double the value of the property, conditioned to indemnify him against all damages which he may sustain in consequence of the seizure or sale of such property, and to pay to any claimant of such property all damages which he may sustain in consequence of such seizure or sale.
Structure West Virginia Code
§38-6-1. Bond to Indemnify Officer Making Levy
§38-6-2. Effect of Giving, or of Refusal to Give, Bond; Return of Bond to Clerk's Office
§38-6-3. Suspending Bond; Settling Claimant's Title; How Suits on Bonds Prosecuted
§38-6-4. Procedure for Determination of Conflicting Claims to Property Levied On
§38-6-5. Order of Sale Pending Determination of Rights
§38-6-6. Disposition of Surplus Proceeds
§38-6-8. Sale of Perishable Property or Property Expensive to Keep
§38-6-9. Levy on Additional Property
§38-6-10. Enforcement of Forthcoming Bond
§38-6-11. Action or Motion on Forthcoming Bond; Enforcement of Original Judgment
§38-6-12. Defenses to Bond Taken Under Distress Warrant
§38-6-13. Remedies on Quashing of Forthcoming Bond
§38-6-14. Forthcoming Bonds Forbidden in Certain Cases
§38-6-15. Indorsement on Execution Forbidding Forthcoming Bond