---
title: O.C.G.A. § 44-14-380. General lien; priorities.
collection: code
id: 44-14-380
cite_as: O.C.G.A. § 44-14-380 (2025)
canonical_url: https://georgiacommons.org/code/44-14-380
md_url: https://georgiacommons.org/code/44-14-380.md
text_url: https://georgiacommons.org/code/44-14-380/text
source_url: https://www.legis.ga.gov/api/document/docs/default-source/joint-features-document-library/t44-ch8-15-(v32)-2022-pdf.pdf?sfvrsn=9e9e06de_0#page=811
date: 2025
status: active
corpus_version: 2025-supplement-89aa39ab3c68
license: CC0-1.0
publisher: Georgia Commons, an independent project of Georgia Civic Data. Not the State of Georgia. Not legal advice.
up: https://georgiacommons.org/code/44-14.md
previous: https://georgiacommons.org/code/44-14-369.md
next: https://georgiacommons.org/code/44-14-381.md
index: https://georgiacommons.org/code/index.md
version: the only printed version
in_force: true
current_through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly
heading_path: PROPERTY / MORTGAGES, CONVEYANCES TO SECURE DEBT, AND LIENS / LIENS / LABORERS
---

# O.C.G.A. § 44-14-380. General lien; priorities.

Laborers shall have a general lien upon the property of their employers which is liable to levy and sale for their labor, which lien is superior to all other liens except liens for taxes, the special liens of landlords on yearly crops, and such other liens as are declared by law to be superior to them.

## History

Ga. L. 1873, p. 42, § 4; Code 1873, § 1974; Code 1882, § 1974; Civil Code 1895, § 2792; Civil Code 1910, § 3334; Code 1933, § 67-1801.