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Title 9. CIVIL PRACTICE · Chapter 12. VERDICT AND JUDGMENT · Article 4. JUDGMENT LIENS

9-12-82. When money judgment outside county of defendant’s residence creates lien against third parties without notice.

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

  1. As against bona fide purchasers for value without actual notice of a judgment or other third parties acting in good faith and without notice who have acquired a transfer or lien binding the defendant’s property, no money judgment obtained in any court of this state or federal court in this state outside the county of the defendant’s residence shall create a lien upon the property of the defendant located in any county other than that where obtained unless the execution issuing thereon is entered upon the general execution docket of the county of the defendant’s residence within 30 days from the date of the judgment. When the execution is entered upon the docket after the 30 days, the lien shall date from such entry.

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 1822, Cobb’s 1851 Digest, p. 497; Ga. L. 1851-52, p. 238, § 1; Code 1863, § 3502; Code 1868, § 3525; Code 1873, § 3583; Ga. L. 1878-79, p. 143, § 2; Code 1882, § 3583; Ga. L. 1889, p. 1006, § 3; Civil Code 1895, §§ 2780, 5356; Civil Code 1910, §§ 3322, 5951; Code 1933, §§ 39-702, 110-512.

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

Text read from T09 Ch12-16 (V7A) 2015.pdf, Volume V7A, 2015 edition, pages 145 to 146; merge action: annotated; file SHA-256 c88496cf9e57.