27-16-1006. Defense against order of arrest. The defendant may file an answer, under oath, putting in issue the facts stated in the affidavit for the order of arrest, which may be tried by the court unless a jury is demanded; and the plaintiff shall be held to establish such facts, and if he fail to do so, the order of arrest shall be dismissed and the defendant may proceed upon the undertaking of the plaintiff for his damages occasioned by the arrest. The defendant may apply to the court to be discharged from arrest upon the ground of the insufficiency of the papers on which the order of arrest was granted.

     History: En. Sec. 567, p. 155, Bannack Stat.; re-en. Sec. 673, p. 171, Cod. Stat. 1871; re-en. Sec. 733, 1st Div. Rev. Stat. 1879; re-en. Sec. 753, 1st Div. Comp. Stat. 1887; re-en. Sec. 1545, C. Civ. Proc. 1895; re-en. Sec. 7024, Rev. C. 1907; re-en. Sec. 9657, R.C.M. 1921; re-en. Sec. 9657, R.C.M. 1935; R.C.M. 1947, 93-6906.