Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 9. CIVIL PRACTICE · Chapter 12. VERDICT AND JUDGMENT · Article 3. DORMANCY AND REVIVAL OF JUDGMENTS

9-12-61. Dormant judgments renewed by action or scire facias; time of renewal.

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When any judgment obtained in any court becomes dormant, the same may be renewed or revived by an action or by scire facias, at the option of the holder of the judgment, within three years from the time it becomes dormant.

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 1823, Cobb’s 1851 Digest, p. 498; Code 1863, §§ 2855, 3522; Code 1868, §§ 2863, 3545; Code 1873, §§ 2914, 3604; Code 1882, §§ 2914, 3604; Civil Code 1895, §§ 3761, 5378; Ga. L. 1910, p. 121, § 1; Civil Code 1910, §§ 4355, 5973; Code 1933, §§ 110-1002, 110-1003.

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For note discussing the procedure for the issuance and amendment of a writ of execution, see 12 Ga. L. Rev. 814 (1978).

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