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Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 44. PROPERTY · Chapter 2. RECORDATION AND REGISTRATION OF DEEDS AND OTHER INSTRUMENTS · Article 2. LAND REGISTRATION · Part 8. Forms

44-2-242. Creditor’s certificate; endorsement of certificate.

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

  1. (a)

    The following is a form of the creditor’s certificate referred to in this article:#

    1. CREDITOR’S CERTIFICATE

    2. State of Georgia, County:

    3. Registered Title No.

    4. Certificate No.

    5. I hereby certify that the title to the estate hereinafter mentioned in the following described land lying in said county,

    6. is registered under the provisions of the Land Registration Law and thereby vested in

    7. as security for a debt created by the holder of the owner’s certificate of title to said estate, (here insert name of the holder of the owner’s certificate); said debt being particularly described as follows:

    8. with power conferred to sell the same after lawful advertisement, without foreclosure, in accordance with the provisions of the Land Registration Law, if any part of said debt is not paid at maturity. The estate in said land so held is as follows:

    9. subject to the following limitations, conditions, encumbrances, etc., and such other as may be noted hereon.

    10. Witness my hand and seal of office, this day of , , at : . M.

    11. Clerk, Superior Court,

    12. County (Official Seal)

  2. (b)

    All uncanceled entries appearing on the certificate of title at the time the creditor’s certificate is issued shall be noted and entered on the creditor’s certificate.#

  3. (c)

    The creditor’s certificate shall bear an endorsement on its back in the following form:#

    1. CREDITOR’S CERTIFICATE

    2. Registered Title No.

    3. Certificate No.

    4. On lands registered in the name of

    5. Issued to

    6. Georgia, County.

    7. Entered and registered this day of , , at : . M.

    8. Clerk, Superior Court

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, § 108; Code 1933, § 60-623; Ga. L. 1999, p. 81, § 44; Ga. L. 2000, p. 136, § 44.

Code Commission notes

Pursuant to Code Section 28-9-5, in 2000, a comma was deleted following ‘‘Clerk, Superior Court’’ at the end of subsection (c).

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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, pages 165 to 166; merge action: carried; file SHA-256 490191d3dc54.