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§ 18-2-205. Entry and Filing of Bonds

The bonds required in §§ 18-2-201 — 18-2-204, after being acknowledged before, approved and certified by the court, shall be entered upon the minutes within thirty (30) days, and shall then be recorded in the office of the county register of deeds and transmitted to the office of the county clerk for safekeeping. Code 1858, […]

§ 18-2-206. Scope of Liability on Bonds

The official bonds of clerks, executed under this code, are obligatory on the principal and sureties for every wrongful act or failure of duty in the clerk’s official capacity, whether embraced in the condition of the bond or not, or growing out of a law passed subsequently to its execution. Code 1858, § 335 (deriv. […]

§ 18-2-207. Chancellors to Examine Bonds

It is the duty of the chancellors, on the first day of each term of their respective courts, to examine the bonds of the respective clerks and masters of those courts, and to ascertain whether they are in conformity to law and whether the sureties on the bonds are good and solvent and worth the […]