Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 44. PROPERTY · Chapter 14. MORTGAGES, CONVEYANCES TO SECURE DEBT, AND LIENS · Article 8. LIENS · Part 1. IN GENERAL

44-14-321. Lien of judgment on debt given for purchase money; priority.

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The judgment upon any evidence of debt given for the purchase money of land, where titles have not been made but bond for titles has been given, shall be a lien upon the land and the proceeds of the sale thereof and shall be prior to all other judgments, claims, liens, and encumbrances until the judgment shall be fully paid and satisfied.

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 1847, Cobb’s 1851 Digest, p. 517; Laws 1850, Cobb’s 1851 Digest, p. 518; Code 1863, § 3581; Ga. L. 1868, p. 16, § 1; Code 1868, § 3604; Ga. L. 1873, p. 42, § 19; Code 1873, §§ 1974, 3654; Ga. L. 1877, p. 21, § 1; Ga. L. 1880-81, p. 63, § 5; Code 1883, §§ 1994, 3654; Civil Code 1895, § 2788; Civil Code 1910, § 3330; Code 1933, § 67-1702.

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