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title: O.C.G.A. § 18-3-51. Delivery of property to claimant upon payment of bond; return of affidavit and bond by levying officer.
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# O.C.G.A. § 18-3-51. Delivery of property to claimant upon payment of bond; return of affidavit and bond by levying officer.

The claimant, his agent, or his attorney at law may give bond, with good security, payable to the levying officer, in a sum equal to double the value of the property claimed, the value to be judged by the levying officer, conditioned to deliver the property at the time and place of sale, provided the same should be found subject to the attachment; and, upon the delivery of the bond to the levying officer, it shall be his duty to deliver such property to the claimant, his agent, or his attorney at law; and it shall be the duty of the levying officer to return the bond, together with the affidavit and claim bond, to the court to which the attachment is returnable; and, when the claim is interposed by the agent or attorney at law of the claimant, the agent or attorney at law shall have power to sign the name of the claimant to the bond, who shall be bound thereby in the same manner as though he had signed it himself.

## History

Laws 1836, Cobb’s 1851 Digest, p. 84; Ga. L. 1855-56, p. 25, § 36; Code 1863, § 3237; Code 1868, § 3248; Code 1873, § 3324; Code 1882, § 3324; Civil Code 1895, § 4571; Civil Code 1910, § 5117; Code 1933, § 8-803.