§651-50 Liability for exceeding powers. The officer serving any execution shall act upon the officer’s own private accountability, for all excesses of the officer’s official powers, and for any departure from the legal import of the writ or mandate in the officer’s hands. [CC 1859, §1028; RL 1925, §2452; RL 1935, §4153; RL 1945, §10180; […]
§651-51 Indemnity bond. The sheriff, deputy sheriff, or police officer may decline to levy upon or sell the alleged property of any person against whose goods and effects an execution or other similar writ may issue, unless the party beneficially interested in the writ shall, upon request, tender to the officer a sufficient bond of […]
§651-52 Indemnity, how collected. Bonds of indemnity given to an officer, as provided in section 651-51, shall be collectible by the officer receiving the same, upon citation to show cause and proof of the signatures thereto, without the intervention of a jury, and the damages to be assessed thereon shall be the amount recovered against […]
