Whenever a provisional remedy has been allowed upon affidavit, the party against whom it is allowed may serve upon the party by whom it was obtained a notice requiring any person making the affidavit to be produced before some officer authorized to administer oaths, therein named, for cross-examination. Thereupon the party to whom the remedy was allowed shall lose the benefit of the affidavit and all proceedings founded thereon, unless within eight days, or such other time as the court directs upon a previous notice to his adversary of at least three days, he produces the affiant for examination before the officer mentioned in the notice, or some other of like authority, provided for in the order of the court. Upon such production the affiant may be examined by either party.