Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 44. PROPERTY · Chapter 14. MORTGAGES, CONVEYANCES TO SECURE DEBT, AND LIENS · Article 7. FORECLOSURE · Part 2. FORECLOSURE ON MORTGAGES

44-14-187. Judgment; sale of mortgaged property.

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When the mortgagor, after being directed so to do, fails to pay the principal, interest, and costs as required by Code Section 44-14-230 and fails to set up and sustain his defense against the foreclosure of the mortgage, the court shall give judgment for the amount which may be due on the mortgage and shall order the mortgaged property to be sold in the manner and under the same regulations which govern sheriffs’ sales under execution.

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 1790, Cobb’s 1851 Digest, p. 571; Code 1863, § 3872; Ga. L. 1866, p. 25, § 1; Code 1868, § 3892; Code 1873, § 3968; Code 1882, § 3968; Civil Code 1895, § 2750; Civil Code 1910, § 3283; Code 1933, § 67-401.

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