§ 11-29-1. Issuance of writ of sequestration
When a bill is filed in the chancery court in reference to personal property, and affidavit and bond as required therefor is made and filed, the clerk of the court shall issue a writ of sequestration.
When a bill is filed in the chancery court in reference to personal property, and affidavit and bond as required therefor is made and filed, the clerk of the court shall issue a writ of sequestration.
Should the defendant fail to give bond as above allowed, within five days from the date of seizure, then the complainant at whose instance the property was seized may give such bond and receive the property. In such case, the bond shall be dealt with in all respects as if the defendant had given it […]
If neither of the parties litigant shall give such bond as allowed within ten days after the seizure, the officer having possession of the property shall sell the same, in the mode prescribed by law for selling property levied upon under writs of fieri facias, if the property be liable to waste or decay, or […]
Before any writ of sequestration shall issue, the complainant shall make and file an affidavit showing that he has good cause to believe, and does believe, that there is danger of the removal of the property involved in the suit beyond the limits of the state, or of its concealment in the state so as […]
Before the writ of sequestration shall issue in any case, the complainant shall enter into bond with sufficient sureties, payable to the defendant, in double the value of the property proposed to be seized, to be fixed by the clerk from affidavit, or such evidence as may satisfy him, conditioned to pay all damages which […]
Writs of sequestration may also be ordered, and the amount of the bond to be given therefor by complainant may be prescribed, by the chancellor or by any judge authorized to grant remedial process of such nature.
The writ of sequestration shall be directed to the sheriff or other proper officer commanding him to seize and take into possession the property in question and to hold the same until the further order of the court or chancellor, or until the defendant from whose possession the same was taken shall enter into bond […]