If such an undertaking be not delivered to the magistrate he shall have jurisdiction of the cause and shall proceed therein and the defendant shall be precluded, in his defense, from drawing the title in question.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 43-154; 1952 Code Section 43-154; 1942 Code Section 268; 1932 Code Section 268; Civ. P. '22 Section 224; Civ. P. '12 Section 91; Civ. P. '02 Section 82; 1870 (14) 85.