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title: O.C.G.A. § 18-2-20. Rights of creditors to be favored by courts.
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# O.C.G.A. § 18-2-20. Rights of creditors to be favored by courts.

The rights of creditors shall be favored by the courts; and every remedy and facility shall be afforded them to detect, defeat, and annul any effort to defraud them of their just rights.

## History

Orig. Code 1863, § 1947; Code 1868, § 1935; Code 1873, § 1945; Code 1882, § 1945; Civil Code 1895, § 2687; Civil Code 1910, § 3216; Code 1933, § 28-102.