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title: O.C.G.A. § 44-2-253. Filing cases; method of filing papers relating to registered lands.
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# O.C.G.A. § 44-2-253. Filing cases; method of filing papers relating to registered lands.

The county governing authority shall furnish the clerk with the necessary durable filing cases. He shall carefully number and file away all papers relating to and dealing with registered lands. All the papers relating to each registered title shall be filed together and separately from the papers relating to any other registered title, in such regular consecutive numerical arrangement as to make them easily accessible at all times.

## History

Ga. L. 1917, p. 108, § 119; Code 1933, § 60-634.