The plaintiff in any suit in which judgment shall be rendered in the district court, and the amount of debt, costs and interest due upon the judgment of the district court shall exceed five thousand dollars ($5000), shall be entitled to maintain an action against the bail in the superior court for the county in which the judgment shall be rendered, in which action the proceedings shall be the same in all respects as if the judgment had been rendered in the court.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-11-14