Rhode Island § 10-10-11 § 10-10-11. Bonds and obligations not provided for void.

Rhode Island Statutes

§ 10-10-11 — § 10-10-11. Bonds and obligations not provided for void.

Rhode Island § 10-10-11

Title 10Courts and civil procedure–Procedure in particular actions

Ch. 10-10Imprisonment on Civil Process

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R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-10-11 (2026).

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§ 10-10-11. Bonds and obligations not provided for void.
If any deputy sheriff, town sergeant, constable or the warden of the adult correctional
            institutions shall take or receive from any prisoner in his or her custody any bond,
            obligation, covenant, promise, or assurance whatsoever, to indemnify and save harmless
            the person taking the bond, obligation, covenant, promise, or assurance for the enlargement
            or ease of the prisoner, in any other form or manner than is prescribed by law for
            taking bail on mesne process in a civil action, or is prescribed in this chapter or
            chapter 12 of this title, every such bond, obligation, covenant, promise or assur

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§ 10-10-11. Bonds and obligations not provided for void.

If any deputy sheriff, town sergeant, constable or the warden of the adult correctional institutions shall take or receive from any prisoner in his or her custody any bond, obligation, covenant, promise, or assurance whatsoever, to indemnify and save harmless the person taking the bond, obligation, covenant, promise, or assurance for the enlargement or ease of the prisoner, in any other form or manner than is prescribed by law for taking bail on mesne process in a civil action, or is prescribed in this chapter or chapter 12 of this title, every such bond, obligation, covenant, promise or assurance whatsoever, shall be utterly void.

Legislative History

G.L. 1896, ch. 259, § 16; G.L. 1909, ch. 325, § 16; G.L. 1923, ch. 376, § 16; G.L. 1938, ch. 562, § 16; impl. am. P.L. 1956, ch. 3721, § 1; G.L. 1956, § 10-10-11; P.L. 2012, ch. 324, § 25.