27-17-205. Plaintiff's undertaking -- service and execution by sheriff. Upon receipt of the affidavit and notice with a written undertaking, executed by two or more sufficient sureties approved by the sheriff, to the effect that they are bound to the defendant in double the value of the property, as stated in the affidavit for the prosecution of the action, and for the return of the property to the defendant, if return thereof be adjudged, and for the payment to him of such sum as may from any cause be recovered against the plaintiff, the sheriff must forthwith take the property described in the affidavit, if it be in the possession of the defendant or his agent, and retain it in his custody. He must also, without delay, serve on the defendant a copy of the affidavit, notice, and undertaking by delivering the same to him personally, if he can be found, or to his agent from whose possession the property is taken or, if neither can be found, by leaving them at the usual place of abode of either with some person of suitable age and discretion or, if neither have any known place of abode, by putting them in the nearest post office, directed to the defendant.

     History: En. Sec. 74, p. 56, Bannack Stat.; en. Sec. 102, p. 152, L. 1867; re-en. Sec. 119, p. 49, Cod. Stat. 1871; re-en. Sec. 157, p. 76, L. 1877; re-en. Sec. 157, 1st Div. Rev. Stat. 1879; re-en. Sec. 159, 1st Div. Comp. Stat. 1887; re-en. Sec. 843, C. Civ. Proc. 1895; re-en. Sec. 6625, Rev. C. 1907; re-en. Sec. 9223, R.C.M. 1921; Cal. C. Civ. Proc. Sec. 512; re-en. Sec. 9223, R.C.M. 1935; R.C.M. 1947, 93-4104.