Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 9. CIVIL PRACTICE · Chapter 13. EXECUTIONS AND JUDICIAL SALES · Article 7. JUDICIAL SALES · Part 2. CONDUCT AND EFFECT

9-13-167. Purchaser to ascertain title and condition; under what conditions officer personally liable.

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

(a)
The purchaser shall look for himself as to the title and soundness of all property sold under judicial process.#
(b)
Actual fraud or misrepresentation by the officer or his agent may bind the officer personally. No covenant of warranty shall bind him individually unless made with that intention and for a valuable consideration.#

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. 1853-54, p. 56, § 1; Code 1863, § 2578; Code 1868, § 2580; Code 1873, § 2622; Code 1882, § 2622; Civil Code 1895, § 5449; Civil Code 1910, § 6054; Code 1933, § 39-1307.

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Text read from T09 Ch12-16 (V7A) 2015.pdf, Volume V7A, 2015 edition, page 288; merge action: carried; file SHA-256 c88496cf9e57.