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§ 542. If the sheriff or coroner, on being arrested by a person specially appointed to execute the office of sheriff, or by elisors, on an order of arrest in a civil action, neglect to give bail or make a deposite of money instead thereof, or if he be arrested on execution against his body, or on attachment, he must be confined in a house within the jail liberties, other than the house of the sheriff or the county jail, in the same manner as the sheriff is required to confine a prisoner in the county jail. The house in which he is thus confined, thereupon becomes, for that purpose, the county jail.

§ 543. If the coroner be arrested on process in an action in which the sheriff is plaintiff, or if another person be so arrested in an action in which both the coroner and sheriff are plaintiffs, he must be committed to the county jail, when his commitment is required by this code: bt the persons making the arrest are not liable for his escape from the jail, after he is committed thereto.

§ 544. Elisors appointed to execute process in the cases mentioned in section 540, are invested with the powers, duties and responsibilities of the sheriff, in the execution of the process and in every matter incidental thereto.

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§ 545. A receiver is a person appointed by a court or judicial officer, to take charge of property during the pendency of a civil action or a special proceeding of a civil nature, or upon a judg:nent or order therein, and to dispose of it as the court or officer may direct.

§ 546. A receiver may be appointed,

1. In a civil action, before judgment, provisionally, on the application of either party, when his right to property, the subject of the action, and which is in the possession of an adverse party, is probable, and the property, or its rents and profits, are in danger of being lost or materially injured or impaired :

2. In a civil action, after judgment, to carry the judgment into effect:

3. In a civil action after judgment, to dispose of the property, according to the judgment, or to preserve it during the pendency of an appeal, or when an execution has been returned unsatisfied, and the judgment debtor refuses to apply his property in satisfaction of the judg

ment:

4. In the cases provided in this code, and by special statutes, when a corporation has been dissolved, or is insolvent or in imminent danger of insolvency, or has forfeited its corporate rights:

5. In the cases provided in this code, when a debtor has been declared insolvent.

§ 547. A receiver, before entering upon his duties, must be sworn faithfully to discharge his trust, to the best of his ability, and must also file with the clerk of the court, an undertaking in writing, of one or more sufficient sureties, in a specified sum, fixed by the court or officer, to the effect that he will faithfully discharge the duties of receiver, and will obey the orders of the court or officer in respect thereto. The sureties must justify in the same manner as bail upon an arrest.

CHAPTER IV.

GUARDIANS.

SECTION 548. Definition of a guardian.

549. By whom and how appointed.

550. Not to receive property of infant, without security.

551. Manner of appointment, security, powers and duties of guardian.

§ 548. A guardian is a person appointed to take the charge of the person or estate of an infant, or both, or to appear for him in the prosecution or defence of a civil action.

§ 549. A guardian may be appointed,

1. By the father, whether of full age or not, of a child likely to be born, or of a living child under the age of twenty-one years and unmarried, or by a surrogate's court, to take the custody and tuition of the infant, to maintain actions for wrongfully taking or detaining him, and to manage his personal property, and the profits of his real property:

2. By the court in which a civil action by or against an infant is brought, or by a judge thereof, and in the supreme court by a county judge, to appear for the infant in the prosecution or defence of the action, as provided in this code.

§ 550. No guardian appointed for an infant, can be permitted to receive property of the infant, until he has given sufficient security, approved by a judge of the court, or in the supreme court, by a county judge, to account for and apply the same, under the direction of the court.

§ 551. The manner of the appointment of a guardian, his powers and duties, and the incidents of his trust, are prescribed by other provisions of this code.

CHAPTER V.

COMMITTEES OF LUNATICS AND HABITUAL DRUNKARDS.

SECTION 552.

Definition of a committee.

553. Manner of appointment, security, powers and duties of committee.

§ 552. A committee is a person appointed by a court, to take the care and custody of an insane person, or of one who is incapable of conducting his own affairs in consequence of habitual drunkenness, and of his property.

§ 553. The manner of the appointment of a committee, his security, powers and duties, and the incidents of his trust, are prescribed by other provisions of this code.

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