Iowa Bond Forms - Iowa Legal Bond


This form is a model Order regarding a bond for a temporary restraining order - plaintiff is required to make a bond that will be payable to defendant to cover damages if it is later found that defendant was unjustly restrained. Adapt to fit your circumstances and local rules.

Bond on Temporary Restraining Order

This form is a model Order regarding a bond for a temporary restraining order. The plaintiff is required to make a bond that will be payable to defendant to cover damages if it is later found that defendant was unjustly restrained. Adapt to fit your circumstances and local rules.

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What is a bond?

A bond is an obligation, expressed in writing, to pay a fixed and liquidated sum on the happening or nonoccurence of a specified condition or event. The term "bond" includes investment bonds, penal bonds conditioned on the performance of duties of office, or other obligations undertaken by the principal obligor in the bond or collateral things to be done by the principal obligor; and indemnity and fidelity bonds or undertakings to indemnify the obligee against loss from conduct of the principal. A bond may be an insurance policy required by a court for the benefit of a trust or an estate. This policy provides insurance protection against the possibility of fraud or embezzlement by a trustee or an executor. The will maker may request in the will that no bond be required.

Bonds may be classified as being either statutory or private. The purpose and contents of a statutory bond are dictated by statute; a private bond is one that is not given pursuant to a statutory requirement. A bond is single if the obligation is to pay a fixed sum of money on a certain day. It is conditional if liability on the obligation is contingent on the principal's performance of particular acts, or, conversely, the principal's failure to perform particular acts. The basic parts of a bond, usually appearing in the order stated, are: (1) the obligation or promise to pay a specified sum, (2) the condition, if any, and (3) the testimonium clause, followed by the signatures.