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Official Code of Georgia Annotated

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

9-13-168. Obligations of purchaser.

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

  1. The purchaser at a judicial sale shall not be bound to look to the appropriation of the proceeds of the sale nor to the returns made by the officer, nor shall he be required to see that the officer has complied fully with all regulations prescribed in such cases. All such irregularities shall create questions and liabilities between the officer and the parties interested in the sale. An innocent purchaser shall be bound only to see that the officer has competent authority to sell and that he is apparently proceeding to sell under the prescribed forms.

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

Orig. Code 1863, § 2584; Code 1868, § 2586; Code 1873, § 2628; Code 1882, § 2628; Civil Code 1895, § 5454; Civil Code 1910, § 6059; Code 1933, § 39-1311.

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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 289 to 290; merge action: carried; file SHA-256 c88496cf9e57.