Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 44. PROPERTY · Chapter 12. RIGHTS IN PERSONALTY · Article 3. BAILMENTS · Part 2. HIRING

44-12-70. Liability of thing hired to execution and levy; forthcoming bond.

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When the period of the hiring does not exceed one year, the thing hired shall not be subject to sale under a judgment against the owner of the thing which was obtained subsequent to the contract of hire; but the thing may be levied on and a bond for its delivery at the expiration of the time for which it is hired may be demanded of the hirer.

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

Orig. Code 1863, § 2074; Code 1868, § 2069; Code 1873, § 2095; Code 1882, § 2095; Civil Code 1895, § 2913; Civil Code 1910, § 3486; Code 1933, § 12-211.

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