Proceedings to vacate and modify, when commenced.Sect. 545. Proceedings to vacate or modify a judgment or order, for the causes mentioned in subdivisions four, five, and seven of section five hundred and thirty-eight, must be commenced within two years after the judgment was rendered or order made, unless the party entitled thereto be an infant, married woman, or person of unsound mind, and then within two years after removal of such disability. Proceedings for the causes mentioned in subdivisions three and six of the same action, shall be within three years, and in subdivision nine within one year after the defendant has notice of the judgment.
Provisions applying to supreme court.Sect. 546. The provisions this title subsequent to section five hundred and thirty-seven shall apply to the supreme court, so far as the same may be applicable to the judgments or final orders of such court.
Cases pending conducted to final judgement.Sect. 547. Cases pending in appellate courts on writs of error or otherwise, when this code takes effect, shall be conducted to final judgment, as if it had not been adopted, and the liens of judgments and decrees rendered when it takes effect shall be preserved.
TITLE XVII.
COSTS.
CHAPTER I.
Surety for costs given, when.Sect. 548. In cases in which the plaintiff is a non-resident of the county in which the action is to be brought, before commencing such action, the plaintiff must furnish a sufficient surety for costs. The surety must be a resident of the county where the action is to be brought, and approved by the clerk. His obligation shall be complete, simply by indorsing the summons, or signing his name on the complaint as security for costs. He shall be bound for the payment [of] all costs, which may be adjudged against the plaintiff in the court, in which the action is brought, or in any other to which it may be carried, and for costs of the plaintiff's witnesses, whether the plaintiff obtained judgment, or not.
Action dismissed, when security for costs not given.Sect. 549. An action in which security for costs is required by the last section, and has not been given, shall be