§58-76-5. Liability and right of action on official bonds
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Every person injured by the neglect, misconduct, or
misbehavior in office of any register, surveyor, sheriff, coroner, county
treasurer, or other officer, may institute a suit or suits against said officer
or any of them and their sureties upon their respective bonds for the due
performance of their duties in office in the name of the State, without any
assignment thereof; and no such bond shall become void upon the first recovery,
or if judgment is given for the defendant, but may be put in suit and
prosecuted from time to time until the whole penalty is recovered; and every such
officer and the sureties on the officer's official bond shall be liable to the
person injured for all acts done by said officer by virtue or under color of
that officer's office.
(1793, c. 384, s. 1, P.R.; 1825, c. 9, P.R.; 1833, c. 17; R.C., c. 78, s. 1; 1869-70, c. 169, s. 10; Code, s. 1883; Rev., s. 281; C.S., s. 354; 1973, c. 108, s. 59; 1997-14, s. 2; 2010-96, s. 29.)
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