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Title 9. CIVIL PRACTICE · Chapter 11. CIVIL PRACTICE ACT · Article 8. PROVISIONAL AND FINAL REMEDIES AND SPECIAL PROCEEDINGS

9-11-69. Execution; discovery in aid thereof.

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

  1. Process to enforce a judgment for the payment of money shall be a writ of execution unless the court directs otherwise. In aid of the judgment or execution, the judgment creditor, or his successor in interest when that interest appears of record, may do any or all of the following:

  2. (1)

    Examine any person, including the judgment debtor by taking depositions or propounding interrogatories;#

  3. (2)

    Compel the production of documents or things; and#

  4. (3)

    Upon a showing of reasonable necessity, obtain permission from a court of competent jurisdiction to enter upon that part of real property belonging to or lawfully occupied by the debtor which is not used as a residence and which property is not bona fide in the lawful possession of another;#

  5. in the manner provided in this chapter for such discovery measures prior to judgment.

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. 1966, p. 609, § 69; Ga. L. 1967, p. 226, § 32; Ga. L. 1987, p. 816, § 1.

Law reviews

For survey article on trial practice and procedure for the period from June 1, 2002 to May 31, 2003, see 55 Mercer L. Rev. 439 (2003). For note discussing discovery proceedings available to creditors, see 12 Ga. L. Rev. 814 (1978).

Other notes

U.S. Code.
For provisions of Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, Rule 69, and annotations pertaining thereto, see 28 U.S.C.

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

Text read from t9-ch11-(v7)-2015-pdf.pdf, Volume V7, 2015 edition, page 1042; merge action: annotated; file SHA-256 3e6a3f858b06.