Official Code of Georgia Annotated

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

44-14-6. Wrongful sale or removal of mortgaged property; penalty.

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

After having made a mortgage deed to personal property or a bill of sale to secure debt, any person who sells or otherwise disposes of the property or causes the property to be moved outside of the state before the payment of the mortgage debt or the debt secured by the bill of sale without the consent of and with intent to defraud the mortgagee shall be guilty of a misdemeanor if loss is thereby sustained by the holder of the mortgage or bill of sale.

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; Code 1882, § 4600; Ga. L. 1887, p. 37, § 1; Penal Code 1895, § 671; Ga. L. 1910, p. 59, § 1; Penal Code 1910, § 720; Ga. L. 1921, p. 123, § 1; Code 1933, § 67-9901; Ga. L. 1982, p. 3, § 44.

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

Text read from t44-ch8-15-(v32)-2022-pdf.pdf, Volume V32, 2022 edition, page 438; merge action: carried; file SHA-256 02e72213893a.