If a garnishment is requested and no judgment has been entered, a writ shall not be issued until the judgment creditor executes and delivers to the court a bond payable to the judgment debtor in the amount of the debt claimed therein, conditioned that the judgment creditor will prosecute the action to effect and if return of the property is ordered he will, without delay, return the property together with reasonable interest, damages resulting from its taking and detention, costs and reasonable attorney fees in the action to the judgment debtor.
A.R.S. § 12-1573
Bond amount and conditions
Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case First National Bank & Trust Co. v. Pomona MacHinery Co. (1971)
Most recently applied in Augustine v. McDonald (September 1985)
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: Arizona State Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain Arizona statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.