Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 44. PROPERTY · Chapter 14. MORTGAGES, CONVEYANCES TO SECURE DEBT, AND LIENS · Article 8. LIENS · Part 2. LANDLORDS

44-14-348. Unlawful sale of farm products on which lien exists; penalty.

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Any person who sells or otherwise disposes of crops upon which there is a lien for rent and advances, before the payment of the rent and advances, without the consent of and with intent to defraud the lienor or assignee of the lien, where loss is thereby sustained by the lienor or assignee of the lien, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

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. 1871-72, p. 71, §§ 1, 2; Code 1873, § 4600; Ga. L. 1875, p. 26, § 1; Ga. L. 1876, p. 114, § 1; Code 1882, § 4600; Penal Code 1895, § 671; Penal Code 1910, § 721; Code 1933, § 61-9903.

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