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Code · New Mexico · Chapter 38 — Trials · Article 4 — Parties

38-4-8. [Infants; bond of next friend.]

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Any person who acts as next friend for an infant in any suit to recover any personal property, debt or damages, shall, if required by the court, execute a bond to such infant in double the amount claimed in such suit, with such sureties as shall be approved by the court, conditioned that such next friend shall account to such infant for all money or property which may be recovered in such suit. Such bond shall be delivered to and filed in the office of the clerk of the court in which said suit is pending.
History: Laws 1897, ch. 73, § 11; C.L. 1897, § 2685 (11); Code 1915, § 4082; C.S. 1929, § 105-203; 1941 Comp., § 19-608; 1953 Comp., § 21-6-8.
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