2014 Kentucky Revised Statutes
CHAPTER 411 - RIGHTS OF ACTION AND SURVIVAL OF ACTIONS
411.170 Action on lost, destroyed, mutilated or defaced writing.

KY Rev Stat § 411.170 (2014) What's This?

Download as PDF 411.170 Action on lost, destroyed, mutilated or defaced writing. An ordinary or equitable action may be brought upon a bill of exchange, or a note or other obligation, or upon an indorsement or assignment thereof, which, or upon a judgment the record of which, is lost, destroyed, mutilated, or defaced, without fraud on the part of the plaintiff, or of those under whom he claims. But no action shall be brought upon an instrument transferable by delivery, merely, which is alleged to be lost, destroyed, mutilated, or defaced, without a previous tender by the plaintiff to the defendant, if his name and place of residence be known to the plaintiff, of an indemnifying bond, with good surety, nor shall judgment be given against the defendant, in such action, until such bond is given, with good surety approved by the court. Effective:July 1, 1953 History: Transferred 1952 Ky. Acts ch. 84, sec. 1, effective July 1, 1953, from C.C. sec. 7.

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