Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 10. COMMERCE AND TRADE · Chapter 7. SURETYSHIP · Article 3. RIGHTS OF SURETY AGAINST PRINCIPAL, COSURETIES, AND THIRD PERSONS

10-7-40. Attachment against principal.

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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

A surety or endorser is entitled to the process of attachment against his principal before payment of the debt under the same circumstances as any other creditor.

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

Orig. Code 1863, § 2138; Code 1868, § 2133; Code 1873, § 2160; Code 1882, § 2160; Civil Code 1895, § 2979; Civil Code 1910, § 3551; Code 1933, § 103-301.

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