§ 3471. Bail or recognizance as including surety bond The word “bail” or the word “recognizance” wherever used in connection with civil proceedings shall mean a good and sufficient surety bond, if one is furnished. (Amended 1967, No. 337 (Adj. Sess.), § 1, eff. July 1, 1968.)
§ 3472. Surety bond in lieu of recognizance Whenever in any civil proceeding, surety by way of recognizance is required, the court or magistrate before whom such proceedings are pending may accept a good and sufficient surety bond in lieu of such recognizance. (Amended 1967, No. 337 (Adj. Sess.), § 2, eff. July 1, 1968.)
§ 3473. Insufficiency of recognizance or bail; order for new bail When it appears that the security or recognizance for the prosecution of a pending cause or an appeal or the bail taken by the officer on the writ, is insufficient to secure the party for whose benefit the same was taken, the court, or […]
§ 3474. Release of bail for misrepresentations, etc When it is made to appear to the court by a person who is bail for a party in a cause pending therein, that he or she was induced to enter bail by misrepresentations or by promise of indemnity which has not been performed, with the consent […]
§ 3476. Rights of bail—Bailpiece in bastardy proceedings When a surety recognizes before a Superior judge, for the appearance before the Superior Court of a person charged with being the father of a bastard child, the officer making the arrest upon the warrant shall deliver to such surety a bailpiece, if required, provided the recognizance […]
§ 3477. Warrant thereon Upon presentation of a bailpiece to a Superior judge, such magistrate shall issue to the surety a warrant directed to any sheriff or constable in the State, commanding him to assist such surety in apprehending the principal. (Amended 1965, No. 194, § 10, eff. July 1, 1965, operative Feb. 1, 1967; […]
§ 3478. Use of warrant When he has occasion to arrest the principal, a surety may use such warrant to surrender him in court in discharge of his bail on the original process or upon scire facias or to secure him until a term of the court in which he may be surrendered for that […]
§ 3479. Commitment of principal The officer apprehending the principal may commit him to jail in the county in which he was arrested on the original process or in the county in which the process is pending, agreeably to the direction in the warrant. Such commitment shall be considered as a commitment on the original […]
§ 3482. Principal delivered in bastardy proceedings A surety on the recognizance in a bastardy complaint may deliver the principal into court in discharge of his recognizance before the principal is adjudged to be the father of such bastard child and the court has made an order charging him with its support, but not after. […]
§ 3483. Commitment of principal When the principal is delivered into court under section 3482 of this title, the court shall order him committed to jail, unless he enters into a recognizance before the court, with sufficient sureties, in the sum fixed by the order of the judge, conditioned as provided by law in such […]
§ 3484. Surety may have warrant A surety in a recognizance taken by a Justice of the Supreme Court, a judge of a Superior Court, or a clerk of the Supreme or Superior Court, may make written application to the authority taking the recognizance for a warrant to apprehend the principal and commit him to […]
