Title 44. PROPERTY · Chapter 2. RECORDATION AND REGISTRATION OF DEEDS AND OTHER INSTRUMENTS · Article 2. LAND REGISTRATION · Part 8. Forms
44-2-225. Sheriff’s return.
Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.
The sheriff’s return should be made substantially in the following form and entered on or attached to the petition:
STATE OF GEORGIA,
COUNTY
I have served copies of the within petition and process, or of the summons in substitute therefor, upon the following persons at the time and in the manner stated, as follows:
I have also gone upon the land and posted in a conspicuous place on the land described herein and upon each separate tract thereof and upon every dwelling house and every building used as a place of business upon said land, a copy of the notice as required by law, and have taken the same into the custody of the court.
The following is the name and post office address of each and every person above the age of 14 years actually occupying the premises:
This day of , .
Sheriff
Reading note: the printed indentation of one or more subsections was ambiguous, so their nesting is the extractor's best reading. The official page linked below settles any doubt.
History
Ga. L. 1917, p. 108, § 90; Code 1933, § 60-606; Ga. L. 1943, p. 326, § 1; Ga. L. 1999, p. 81, § 44.
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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.
Text read from t44-ch1-7-(v31)-2010-pdf.pdf, Volume V31, 2010 edition, page 150; merge action: carried; file SHA-256 490191d3dc54.
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