Terms Used In Indiana Code 34-55-2-11

  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
  • Judgment: means all final orders, decrees, and determinations in an action and all orders upon which executions may issue. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
   Sec. 11. When any court renders judgment against two (2) or more persons, any of whom are sureties for any other or others in the contract on which the judgment is founded, there shall be no stay of execution on the judgment if the sureties object at the time of rendering the judgment. It shall be so ordered by the court unless surety for the stay of execution will undertake specially to pay the judgment, in case the amount of the judgment cannot be levied of the principal defendant.

[Pre-1998 Recodification Citation: 34-1-35-12.]

As added by P.L.1-1998, SEC.51.