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The judge of probate and the sureties on his official bond are liable to any person injured for any neglect or omission of the judge in not taking from a conservator a good and sufficient bond or for taking thereon insufficient surety or for the neglect or omission to require the execution of a new or of an additional bond in the cases in which such bond is required by law, if he knows or has good cause to believe that the case exists in which such new or additional bond should be required.

(Code 1886, §2389; Code 1896, §2283; Code 1907, §4373; Code 1923, §8146; Code 1940, T. 21, §38; Acts 1987, No. 87-590, p. 975, §2-333(b).)