Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 10. COMMERCE AND TRADE · Chapter 7. SURETYSHIP · Article 2. RELATIVE RIGHTS OF CREDITOR AND SURETY

10-7-28. Process sued out and judgment entered against surety as such.

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When the fact of suretyship appears on the face of the contract, the creditor shall sue out process against the surety and enter up judgment against him as such.

The notes below are printed with the section but are not enacted law (O.C.G.A. § 1-1-1(c)). They are shown apart from the text.

History

Laws 1845, Cobb’s 1851 Digest, p. 598.; Laws 1850, Cobb’s 1851 Digest, p. 600.; Code 1863, § 2137; Code 1868, § 2132; Code 1873, § 2159; Code 1882, § 2159; Civil Code 1895, § 2977; Civil Code 1910, § 3549; Code 1933, § 103-208.

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