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Title 18. DEBTOR AND CREDITOR · Chapter 3. ATTACHMENT PROCEEDINGS · Article 2. LEVY AND REPLEVY OF PROPERTY GENERALLY

18-3-32. Levy on property in a different county.

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

  1. When the plaintiff in attachment wishes to levy his attachment upon property in a different county from that in which the same is returnable, it shall be the duty of the judge issuing the attachment, upon the request of the plaintiff, his agent, or his attorney at law, to make out a copy or copies of the original attachment, bond, and affidavit and certify the same officially to be true copies. Upon delivery of the copies of the attachment, bond, and affidavit, as directed, to any officer of the county in which the property of the defendant is located, it shall be the duty of the officer forthwith to levy the attachment upon the property of the defendant located in that county and to return the attachment, with his actings and doings entered thereon, to the court to which the original attachment is returnable.

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 1799, Cobb’s 1851 Digest, p. 73; Ga. L. 1855-56, p. 25, § 10; Code 1863, § 3193; Code 1868, § 3204; Code 1873, § 3270; Code 1882, § 3270; Civil Code 1895, § 4516; Civil Code 1910, § 5061; Code 1933, § 8-210; Ga. L. 1980, p. 1065, § 8.

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

Text read from t18-t19-(v16)-2022-pdf.pdf, Volume V16, 2022 edition, pages 144 to 145; merge action: carried; file SHA-256 eddc877da9f2.