Official Code of Georgia Annotated

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

10-7-46. Proof of suretyship after judgment.

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If judgment has been rendered without such proof of suretyship, the surety shall give at least ten days’ notice to his principal of his intention to apply at the next term of the court where the judgment was entered to make such proof and to have the fact of his suretyship entered of record, together with an order for the control of such judgment and execution thereon against the principal, on payment of the same by him.

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 1850, Cobb’s 1851 Digest, p. 599.; Code 1863, § 2144; Code 1868, § 2139; Code 1873, § 2166; Code 1882, § 2166; Civil Code 1895, § 2985; Civil Code 1910, § 3557; Code 1933, § 103-307.

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