20.010 - Undertaking with sureties; affidavits. - Nevada Statutes

20.010  Undertaking with sureties; affidavits.

      1.  In all cases where an undertaking with sureties is required by the provisions of titles 2 to 6 of NRS, the judge, justice, or clerk, or other officer taking the same, shall, unless it is otherwise provided in NRS, require the sureties to accompany the same with an affidavit that they are each worth the sum specified in the undertaking, over and above all their just debts and liabilities, exclusive of property exempt from execution.

      2.  When the amount specified in an undertaking exceeds $3,000, and there are more than two sureties thereon, they may state in their affidavits that they are severally worth amounts less than that expressed in the undertaking, if the whole amount be equivalent to that of two sufficient sureties.

      [1911 CPA § 542; RL § 5484; NCL § 9031]