15-16-18. Purchase at own sale not permitted.

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

No sheriff or deputy or other officer discharging a similar duty shall be permitted to purchase any property whatever at his own sale, either upon his own bid or upon the bid of any other person for him, directly or indirectly. All such sales and deeds in pursuance thereto, intended to vest in such officer the title to the property so purchased, shall be null and void.

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. 581; Code 1863, § 338; Code 1868, § 399; Code 1873, § 364; Code 1882, § 364; Ga. L. 1884-85, p. 472, § 9; Ga. L. 1890-91, p. 96, § 2; Civil Code 1895, § 4384; Civil Code 1910, § 4918; Code 1933, § 24-2821.

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

Text read from t15-ch12-24-(v13a)-2015-pdf.pdf, Volume V13A, 2015 edition, page 271; merge action: carried; file SHA-256 3ead04cf60ab.