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Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 1341.01 Qualifications of sureties
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Sureties must be residents of this state and worth, in the aggregate, double the sum to be secured, beyond the amount of their debts, and have property liable to execution in this state equal to the sum to be secured.
Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 1341.02 Sureties may be required to testify concerning their sufficiency
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A court or an officer authorized by law to approve a surety may require such person to testify, orally or in writing, touching his sufficiency; but this shall not, in itself, exonerate the officer in an action for taking insufficient surety.
Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 1341.03 Certain sureties cannot waive their rights
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In contracts for the payment of money to banks or bankers, sureties in fact, known to the parties to be such at the time such contracts were made, may be proved, and shall be considered in all courts, to be sureties, and have all the privileges of sureties, anything in the contra…
Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 1341.04 Sureties may require creditors to sue
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A person bound as surety in a written instrument for the payment of money or other valuable thing, if a right of action accrued thereon, may require his creditor, by notice in writing, to commence an action on such instrument forthwith against the principal debtor. Unless the cre…