Official Code of Georgia Annotated

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

44-14-31. Form and contents of mortgage.

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No particular form is necessary to constitute a mortgage. However, a mortgage must clearly indicate the creation of a lien and must specify the debt for which it is given and the property upon which it is to take effect.

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, § 1957; Code 1868, § 1945; Code 1873, § 1955; Ga. L. 1876, p. 34, § 1; Code 1882, § 1955; Civil Code 1895, § 2724; Civil Code 1910, § 3257; Code 1933, § 67-102.

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For note discussing how an open end or dragnet clause within a deed to secure debt ensnares subsequent purchasers of real property in light of Commercial Bank v. Readd, 240 Ga. 519, 242 S.E.2d 25 (1978), see 30 Mercer L. Rev. 363 (1978).

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