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Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 44. PROPERTY · Chapter 5. ACQUISITION AND LOSS OF PROPERTY · Article 9. FORFEITURE

44-5-210. Lien of state for costs of prosecution.

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

  1. The state shall hold a lien upon all the property of a convicted offender for the costs of the prosecution against him.

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

Orig. Code 1863, § 2634; Code 1868, § 2634; Code 1873, § 2675; Code 1882, § 2675; Civil Code 1895, § 3581; Civil Code 1910, § 4161; Code 1933, § 85-1109.

Cross references

Prohibition against forfeiture of estate, Ga. Const. 1983, Art. I, Sec. I, Para. XX. Further provisions regarding lien for costs of prosecution, § 17-11-1.

Law reviews

For article on whether one’s property is forfeited after a conviction based on a nolo contendere plea, see 13 Ga. L. Rev. 723 (1979).

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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 582; merge action: carried; file SHA-256 490191d3dc54.