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Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 44. PROPERTY · Chapter 7. LANDLORD AND TENANT · Article 1. IN GENERAL

44-7-17. Exemption from liens against tenant of crops paid as rent.

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

  1. When it is agreed that the tenant shall pay to the landlord as rent a part of the crop produced on the lands rented from the landlord and the tenant, in good faith, delivers the part of the crop agreed on in discharge of his rent, such part of the crop so delivered shall be discharged from the lien of any judgment, decree, or other process whatsoever against the tenant.

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. 1884-85, p. 91, § 1; Civil Code 1895, § 3127; Civil Code 1910, § 3703; Code 1933, § 61-115; Ga. L. 1982, p. 3, § 44.

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