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title: O.C.G.A. § 18-2-55. Nature of actions to set aside assignments generally; priorities and payment to creditors on judgments rendered after filing of complaint to set aside assignment.
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# O.C.G.A. § 18-2-55. Nature of actions to set aside assignments generally; priorities and payment to creditors on judgments rendered after filing of complaint to set aside assignment.

No assignment shall be set aside except in a direct action filed for that purpose; and no creditor shall obtain any priority or preference of payment out of the assets assigned on any judgment rendered after the filing of a complaint to set aside the assignment if the assignment is set aside and decreed to be void.

## History

Ga. L. 1894, p. 90, § 13; Civil Code 1895, § 2710; Civil Code 1910, § 3243; Code 1933, § 28-314.