{"data":{"id":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-12-12-803","jurisdiction":"us-ok","citation":"Okla. Stat. tit. 12, § 12-803","heading":"Principal and surety - Levy against principal before","body":"surety.\n\nIn all cases where judgment is rendered in any court of record\n\nwithin this state, upon any instrument of writing in which two or\n\nmore persons are jointly and severally bound, and it shall be made\n\nto appear to the court, by parol or other testimony, that one or\n\nmore of said persons so bound, signed the same as surety or bail,\n\nfor his or their codefendant, it shall be the duty of the clerk of\n\nsaid court, in recording the judgment thereon to certify which of\n\nthe defendants is principal debtor, and which are sureties or bail.\n\nAnd the clerk of the court aforesaid shall issue execution on such\n\njudgment, commanding the sheriff or other officer to cause the money\n\nto be made of the goods and chattels, lands and tenements, of the\n\nprincipal debtor; but for want of sufficient property of the\n\nprincipal debtor to make the same, that he cause the same to be made\n\nof the goods and chattels, lands and tenements, of the surety or\n\nbail. In all cases, the property, both personal and real, of the\n\nprincipal debtor, within the jurisdiction of the court, shall be\n\nexhausted before any of the property of the surety or bail shall be\n\ntaken in execution.","path":["OK Code","Title 12"],"source_url":"https://www.oklegislature.gov/OK_Statutes/CompleteTitles/os12.pdf","current_through":"2026-08-14","vintage":"open-us-law v2026.08, retrieved 2026-09-14","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T18:32:36Z","sha256":"5b2d660c2e4a6424eafd6c8ec9dec26334cf8fa0a50cfe4e9241ca0fc7b73694","source_id":"us-ok","stale":false,"prev":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-12-12-802","next":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-12-12-81"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}