Oklahoma Code § 12-1188

Title 12. Civil Procedure: Bond by defendant
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The defendant may, at any time after the garnishment affidavit
is filed, and before judgment, file with the clerk of the court an
undertaking, executed by at least two sureties, resident freeholders
of the state, to the effect that they will, on demand, pay to the
plaintiff the amount of the judgment that may be recovered against
such defendant in the action, with all costs not exceeding a sum

specified, which sum shall not be less than double the amount
demanded by the complaint on file, or in such less sum as the court
shall, upon application, direct.  The sureties shall justify their
responsibility by affidavit annexed stating a sum which each is
worth, in property within this state, over and above all his debts
and liabilities and property exempt from execution, the aggregate of
which sums shall be double the amount specified in the undertaking.
The defendant shall serve a copy of such undertaking, with a notice
where and when the same was filed, on the plaintiff.  Within three
(3) days after the receipt thereof the plaintiff shall give notice
to the defendant that he excepts to the sufficiency of the sureties,
or he shall be deemed to have waived all objections to them.

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