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title: O.C.G.A. § 18-3-16. Issuance and levy of attachment on Sunday.
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# O.C.G.A. § 18-3-16. Issuance and levy of attachment on Sunday.

Attachments may issue and be levied on Sunday when the plaintiff, his agent, or his attorney at law shall state, in his sworn application for a writ of attachment, that he has reason to believe the debt will not be satisfied unless process of attachment shall issue on Sunday and shall also comply with the other provisions of this chapter.

## History

Laws 1834, Cobb’s 1851 Digest, p. 482; Ga. L. 1855-56, p. 25, § 23; Code 1863, § 3196; Code 1868, § 3207; Code 1873, § 3274; Code 1882, § 3274; Civil Code 1895, § 4520; Civil Code 1910, § 5065; Code 1933, § 8-115.