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title: O.C.G.A. § 9-13-174. When sheriff’s successor empowered to make titles.
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# O.C.G.A. § 9-13-174. When sheriff’s successor empowered to make titles.

If a sheriff fails to make titles to a purchaser, his successor in office may make them in the same manner as if he had sold the property.

## History

Laws 1799, Cobb’s 1851 Digest, p. 576; Code 1863, § 2583; Code 1868, § 2585; Code 1873, § 2627; Code 1882, § 2627; Civil Code 1895, § 5453; Civil Code 1910, § 6058; Code 1933, § 39-1304.