Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 44. PROPERTY · Chapter 13. EXEMPTIONS FROM LEVY AND SALE · Article 1. CONSTITUTIONAL EXEMPTIONS · Part 3. LEVY ON AND SALE OF EXEMPTED REAL PROPERTY

44-13-63. Levy or sale of exempted real property as trespass; persons entitled to recovery.

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Except as provided in Code Section 44-13-60, any officer knowingly levying on or selling property made exempt from sale shall be guilty of trespass; and any person allowed such exemption may recover for such trespass for their exclusive use.

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

Ga. L. 1868, p. 27, § 10; Code 1873, § 2027; Code 1882, § 2027; Civil Code 1895, § 2849; Civil Code 1910, § 3399; Code 1933, § 51-901; Ga. L. 1983, p. 1170, § 2.

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For note discussing legal and equitable relief from execution available to debtors, see 12 Ga. L. Rev. 814 (1978).

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