Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 44. PROPERTY · Chapter 2. RECORDATION AND REGISTRATION OF DEEDS AND OTHER INSTRUMENTS · Article 2. LAND REGISTRATION · Part 4. Registers and Registration

44-2-123. Clerk’s duty to ensure proper execution of voluntary transfer; liability for damage or loss arising from registration of improperly executed transfer.

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Before registering any voluntary transfer, the clerk shall satisfy himself that the same is witnessed and attested or acknowledged in accordance with law. The clerk and the sureties on his bond shall be liable for any loss or damage occasioned to any person through registration of a transfer not so executed.

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. 1917, p. 108, § 106; Code 1933, § 60-411.

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Text read from t44-ch1-7-(v31)-2010-pdf.pdf, Volume V31, 2010 edition, page 116; merge action: carried; file SHA-256 490191d3dc54.

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