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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

9-13-170. Liability for purchase money; officer’s collection options.

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

  1. (a)

    Any person who becomes the purchaser of any real or personal property at any sale made at public outcry by any executor, administrator, or guardian or by any sheriff or other officer under and by virtue of any execution or other legal process, who fails or refuses to comply with the terms of the sale when requested to do so, shall be liable for the amount of the purchase money. It shall be at the option of the sheriff or other officer either to proceed against the purchaser for the full amount of the purchase money or to resell the real or personal property and then proceed against the first purchaser for any deficiency arising from the sale.#

  2. (b)

    The action provided for in subsection (a) of this Code section may be brought in the name of the sheriff or other officer making the sale for the use of the plaintiff or defendant in execution or any other person in interest, as the case may be.#

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 1831, Cobb’s 1851 Digest, p. 514; Code 1863, §§ 3582, 3583; Code 1868, §§ 3605, 3606; Code 1873, §§ 3655, 3656; Code 1882, §§ 3655, 3656; Civil Code 1895, §§ 5466, 5467; Civil Code 1910, §§ 6071, 6072; Code 1933, §§ 39-1301, 39-1302; Ga. L. 1982, p. 3, § 9.

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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 291 to 292; merge action: carried; file SHA-256 c88496cf9e57.