Official Code of Georgia Annotated

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

44-14-43. Foreclosure of mortgage after note barred by limitations.

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The fact that a note or other evidence of debt is barred does not prevent a creditor from thereafter availing himself of the mortgage or other security unless the mortgage or other security itself is barred.

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.

Civil Code 1895, § 2735; Civil Code 1910, § 3268; Code 1933, § 67-116.

History of Section.: This Code section is derived from the decisions in Elkins v. Edwards, 8 Ga. 325 (1849) and Reid v. Flippen, 47 Ga. 273 (1872).

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