Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 44. PROPERTY · Chapter 14. MORTGAGES, CONVEYANCES TO SECURE DEBT, AND LIENS · Article 8. LIENS · Part 5. PAWNBROKERS, FACTORS, BAILEES, ACCEPTORS, AND DEPOSITORIES

44-14-402. Liens of depositories for hire.

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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

Depositories for hire shall have a lien for their hire and may retain possession until it is paid.

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, § 2089; Code 1868, § 2084; Code 1873, § 2110; Code 1882, § 2110; Civil Code 1895, § 2928; Code 1910, § 3501; Code 1933, § 12-703.

Law reviews

For comment on Wilkinson v. Townsend, 96 Ga. App. 179, 99 S.E.2d 539 (1957), wherein the statutory authorization for the police to remove an abandoned automobile to a garage was held not to create an agency relationship between the police and auto owner giving rise to a lien against the auto owner by the garageman, see 9 Mercer L. Rev. 372 (1958).

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Text read from t44-ch8-15-(v32)-2022-pdf.pdf, Volume V32, 2022 edition, page 819; merge action: carried; file SHA-256 02e72213893a.