Replevin

"Where there is a claim for delivery of personal property, an affidavit must be made before the clerk of the court in which the action is required to be tried or before some person competent to administer oaths, by the plaintiff, or someone in his behalf. N.C. Gen. Stat. § 1-473

The clerk of court may, upon notice (§ 1-474.1) and hearing and after plaintiff gives the undertaking (§ 1-475); require the sheriff of the county where the property claimed is located to take the property from the defendant and deliver it to the plaintiff. N.C. Gen. Stat. § 1-475

The defendant may, within three days after the service of a copy of the affidavit and undertaking, notify the sheriff personally, or by leaving a copy at his office in the county seat of the county, that he excepts to the sufficiency of the sureties. N.C. Gen. Stat. § 1-477" "