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# O.C.G.A. § 44-2-5. Recording execution and deed after sheriff’s sale.

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.

## 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.

## 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).

## 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.