The debtor of the lien claimant or a party in interest in the premises subject to the lien must obtain a surety bond executed by the debtor of the lien claimant or a party in interest in the premises subject to the lien, as principal, and executed by a corporation authorized to transact surety business in this state, as surety, in substantially the following form:
(Title of court and cause, if action has been commenced)
WHEREAS, ……………….. (name of owner, contractor, or other person disputing the lien) desires to give a bond for releasing the following described real property from that certain claim of mechanic’s lien in the sum of $ ……….., recorded ……………, …., in the office of the recorder in ………………….. (name of county where the real property is situated):
(legal description)
contract signature

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Terms Used In Idaho Code 45-519

  • Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
  • person: includes a corporation as well as a natural person;
Idaho Code 73-114
  • Property: includes both real and personal property. See Idaho Code 73-114
  • Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
  • State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories; and the words "United States" may include the District of Columbia and territories. See Idaho Code 73-114
    • NOW, THEREFORE, the undersigned principal and surety do hereby obligate themselves to ……………………., (name of claimant) the claimant named in the mechanic’s lien, under the conditions prescribed by sections 45-518 through 45-524, Idaho Code, inclusive, in the sum of $ ……. (1-1/2 x claim), from which sum they will pay the claimant such amount as a court of competent jurisdiction may adjudge to have been secured by his lien, with interest, costs and attorney’s fees.
    IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the principal and surety have executed this bond at ………………., Idaho, on the ……… day of …………, …..
    ………………………

    (Signature of Principal)

    (SURETY CORPORATION)

    BY …………………….

    (Its Attorney in Fact)
    State of Idaho      )
        ) ss.
    County of ……..  )
    On ……………, …., before me, the undersigned, a notary public of this county and state, personally appeared ………………….. who acknowledged that he executed the foregoing instrument as principal for the purposes therein mentioned and also personally appeared ………………….. known (or satisfactorily proved) to me to be the attorney in fact of the corporation that executed the foregoing instrument and known to me to be the person who executed that instrument on behalf of the corporation therein named, and he acknowledged to me that that corporation executed the foregoing instrument.