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responsible for the defendant's sureties, until they justify, or until justification is completed or expressly waived, and may retain the property until that time, but if they, or others in their place, fail to justify, at the time and place appointed, he shall deliver the property to the plaintiff.

213. The qualifications of sureties and their justification, shall be as are prescribed by sections 194 and 195, in respect to bail upon an order of arrest.

214. If the property or any part thereof be concealed in a building or inclosure, the sheriff shall publicly demand its delivery. If it be not delivered, he shall cause the building or inclosure to be broken open, and take the property into his possession; and if necessary he may call to his aid the power of his county.

215. When the sheriff shall have taken property, as in this chapter provided, he shall keep it in a secure place, and deliver it to the party entitled thereto upon receiving his lawful fees for taking, and his necessary expenses for keeping the same.

216. If the property taken be claimed by any other person than the defendant or his agent, and such person shall make affidavit of his title thereto, and right to the possession thereof, stating the grounds of such right and title, and serve the same upon the sheriff; the sheriff shall not be bound to keep the property, or deliver it to the plaintiff unless the plaintiff, on demand of him or his agent, shall indemnify the sheriff against such claim by an undertaking, executed by two sufficient sureties, accompanied by their affidavits, that they are each worth

double the value of the property specified in the affidavit of the plaintiff, and freeholders and householders of the county. And no claim to such property, by any other person than the defendant or his agent, shall be valid against the sheriff unless made as aforesaid, and notwithstanding such claim, when so made, he may retain the property a reasonable time to demand such indemnity.

2217. The sheriff shall file the notice and affidavit, with his proceedings thereon, with the clerk of the court in which the action is pending, within twenty days after taking the property mentioned therein.

CHAPTER III.
Injunction.

218. The writ of injunction as a provisional remedy is abolished; and an injunction, by order, is substituted therefor. The order may be made by the court in which the action is brought, or by a judge thereof, or by a county judge, in the cases provided in the next section; and when made by a judge may be enforced as the order of the court.

219. Where it shall appear by the complaint, that the plaintiff is entitled to the relief demanded, and such relief, or any part thereof, consists in restraining the commission or continuance of some act, the commission or continuance of which, during the litigation, would produce injury to the plaintiff, or when, during the litigation, it shall appear that the defendant is doing, or threatens, colis about to do, or procuring or suffering some act ff sh done in violation of the plaintiff's rights, resje sher the subject

of the action, and tending to render the judgment ineffectual, a temporary injunction may be granted to restrain such act. And where, during the pendency of an action, it shall appear by affidavit, that the defendant threatens, or is about to remove or dispose of his property, with intent to defraud his creditors, a temporary injunction may be granted to restrain such removal or disposition.

220. The injunction may be granted at the time of commencing the action, or at any time afterward, before judgment, upon its appearing satisfactorily to the court or judge, by the affidavit of the plaintiff, or of any other person, that sufficient grounds exist therefor. A copy of the affidavit must be served with the injunction.

? 221. An injunction shall not be allowed, after the defendant shall have answered, unless upon notice, or upon an order to show cause; but in such case the defendant may be restrained, until the decision of the court or judge granting or refusing the injunction.

? 222. Where no provision is made by statute, as to security upon an injunction. the court or judge shall require a written undertaking, on the part of the plaintiff, with or without sureties, to the effect that the plaintiff will pay to the party enjoined such damages, not exceeding an amount to be specified, as he may sustain by reason of the injunction, if the court shall finally decide that the plaintiff was not entitled thereto. The damages may be ascertained by a reference, or otherwise, as the cour shall direct.

223. If the court or judge deem it proper that the defendant, or any of several defendants, should be heard before granting the injunction, an order may be made requiring cause to be shown, at a specified time and place, why the injunction should not be granted; and the defendant may in the mean time be restrained.

224. An injunction to suspend the general and ordinary business of a corporation* shall not be granted, except by the court or a judge thereof. Nor shall it be granted, without due notice of the application therefor, to the proper officers of the corporation, except where the people of this state are a party to the proceeding, and except in proceedings to enforce the liability of stockholders in corporations and associations for banking purposes, after the first day of January, 1850, as such proceedings are or shall be provided by law, unless the plaintiff shall give a written undertaking, executed by two sufficient sureties, to be approved by the court or judge, to the effect that the plaintiff will pay all damages, not exceeding the sum to be mentioned in the undertaking, which such corporation may sustain by reason of the injunction, if the court shall finally decide that the plaintiff was not entitled thereto. The damages may be ascertained by a reference or otherwise, as the court shall direct,

An injunction to suspend the general and ordinary business of a corporation cr a joint-stock association, or to suspend from office any director, trustee or manager of a corporation or joint-stock association, or to restrain or prohibit any director, trustee or manager of a corporation or joint-stock association from the performance of his duties as such. shall not be granted, except by the court, and upon a notice of at least eight days of the application therefor, to the proper officers of the corporation, or the director, trustee or manager to be enjoined or restrained; and an injunction granted for any of the said purposes, except by the court and upon the notice in this section prescribed, shall be void." Act of April 7, 1870, Laws of 1870, ch. 151, § 1.

225. If the injunction be granted by a judge of the court, or by a county judge, without notice, the defendant, at any time before the trial, may apply, upon notice, to a judge of the court in which the action is brought, to vacate or modify the same. The application may be made upon the complaint and the affidavits on which the injunction was granted, or upon affidavits on the part of the defendant, with or without the answer.

226. The application mentioned in the last section may be opposed by affidavits or other proofs, in addition to those on which the injunction was granted.

CHAPTER IV.
Attachment.

2227. In an action arising on contract for the recovery of money only, or in an action for the wrongful conversion of personal property, against a corporation created by or under the laws of any other state, government or country, or against a defendant who is not a resident of this state, or against a defendant who has absconded or concealed himself, or whenever any person or corporation is about to remove any of his or its property from this state, or has assigned, disposed of, or secreted, or is about to assign, dispose of or secrete, any of his or its property with intent to defraud creditors, as hereinafter mentioned, the plaintiff, at the time of issuing the summons, or any time afterward, may have the property of such defendant or corporation attached, in the manner hereinafter prescribed, as a security for the satisfaction of such judgment as the plaintiff' may recover; and for the purposes of this section, an

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