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Title 44. PROPERTY · Chapter 2. RECORDATION AND REGISTRATION OF DEEDS AND OTHER INSTRUMENTS · Article 1. RECORDING · Part 1. RECORDING OF DEEDS AND OTHER REAL PROPERTY TRANSACTIONS

44-2-5. Recording execution and deed after sheriff’s sale.

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

  1. A purchaser at a sheriff’s sale may have the execution under which the property was sold recorded with his or her deed together with all the entries on the execution.

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

Laws 1845, Cobb’s 1851 Digest, p. 179.; Code 1863, § 2671; Code 1868, § 2667; Code 1873, § 2709; Code 1882, § 2709; Civil Code 1895, § 3625; Civil Code 1910, § 4207; Code 1933, § 29-412; Ga. L. 2011, p. 99, § 76/HB 24.

Amendments

The 2011 amendment, effective January 1, 2013, inserted “or her” in the first sentence and deleted the second sentence, which read: “In the event of the loss or destruction of the original execution, a copy of the record shall be admitted in evidence.” See Editor’s notes for applicability.

Editor's notes

Ga. L. 2011, p. 99, § 101/HB 24, not codified by the General Assembly, provides that this Act shall apply to any motion made or hearing or trial commenced on or after January 1, 2013.

Law reviews

For article, “Evidence,” see 27 Ga. St. U.L. Rev. 1 (2011). For article on the 2011 amendment of this Code section, see 28 Ga. St. U.L. Rev. 1 (2011).

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