{"data":{"id":"us-ky/krs-426.610","jurisdiction":"us-ky","citation":"KRS 426.610","heading":"Bonds having the effect of a judgment -- General provisions for.","body":"(1) Every bond taken on the sale of property under an order of judgment in chancery or\non the sale of property under execution, and every replevin and forthcoming bond,\nshall be signed by the principal and surety, and attested by the person taking the\nbond, or  by someone in his presence. A bond so taken shall be returned to the\nproper office, with a report of the acts of the person taking it, and, if taken under an\nexecution, the execution shall be returned with the bond. Every such bond shall\nhave the force an d effect of a judgment, and if not paid at maturity an execution\nmay issue, which shall be endorsed that no surety of any kind is to be taken.\n(2) The officer taking any bond referred to in subsection (1) of this section, and his\nsureties, or their repres entatives, shall be jointly and severally liable to the person\ninjured for any damage he may sustain by the officer taking as surety on the bond a\nperson who was not solvent at the time.\n(3) If one of several obligors or obligees, in any bond referred to in subsection (1) of\nthis section, dies before the bond is satisfied, execution may issue on the bond in the\nname of the surviving obligees, against the obligor or the survivor. If all the\nobligees in such a bond die, their personal representatives may, if  the bond is not\nsatisfied at maturity, sue out execution thereon against the obligors or their personal\nrepresentatives if they are all dead, or, if only part are dead, against the survivor and\nthe personal representatives of the deceased.\n(4) If any bond referred to in subsection (1) of this section is quashed, a new execution\nmay issue on the original judgment at the instance of the plaintiff, in the same\nmanner as if the bond had never been given.","path":["KRS Chapter 426"],"source_url":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/law/statutes/statute.aspx?id=18509","current_through":"Includes enactments through the 2026 Regular Session","vintage":"09/05/2026","retrieved_at":"2026-09-05T20:59:44Z","sha256":"0b0b44adda1677d4b0094ef08913bf1911c83d958024443cd8e616f88fd42532","source_id":"us-ky","stale":false,"prev":"us-ky/krs-426.600","next":"us-ky/krs-426.615"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}