Colorado § 13-93-112 - Attorney not to be surety.
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§ 13-93-112. Attorney not to be surety.
No attorney- or counselor-at-law shall become surety in any bond or recognizance of any sheriff or coroner, in any bond or recognizance for the appearance of any person charged with any public offense, or upon any bond or recognizance authorized by any statute to be taken for the payment of any sum of money into court in default of the principal, without the consent of a judge of the district court first had approving said surety.
Source: L. 2017: Entire article added with relocations, (SB 17-227), ch. 192, p. 700, § 1, effective August 9.
Editor's note: This section is similar to former § 12-5-117 as it existed prior to 2017.
ANNOTATION
Annotator's note. Since § 13-93-112 is similar to former § 12-5-117 and laws antecedent to that section, relevant cases construing those provisions have been included in the annotations to this section.
Where by leave of court, an attorney signs a certiorari bond as surety, he is estopped to deny his obligation on the ground that he was an attorney at the time of signing. Ullery v. Kokott, 15 Colo. App. 138, 61 P. 189 (1900).
Applied in Bottom v. People, 63 Colo. 114, 164 P. 697 (1917).
Source: official Colorado text · Last verified 2026-08-27
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