Official Code of Georgia Annotated

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

9-13-175. Duty of officer to place purchaser in possession; which persons officer may dispossess.

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When any sheriff or other officer sells any real estate or present interest in land by virtue of and under any execution or otherwise, it shall be his duty, upon application, to place the purchaser or his agent or attorney in possession of the real estate. To this end, the officer may dispossess the defendant, his heirs, his tenants, or his lessees, vendees, or assignees since the judgment. However, he may not dispossess other persons claiming under an independent title.

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 1811, Cobb’s 1851 Digest, p. 510; Laws 1823, Cobb’s 1851 Digest, p. 512; Code 1863, §§ 2580, 3578; Code 1868, §§ 2582, 3601; Code 1873, §§ 2624, 3651; Code 1882, §§ 2624, 3651; Civil Code 1895, §§ 5451, 5468; Civil Code 1910, §§ 6056, 6073; Code 1933, §§ 39-1309, 39-1312.

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Text read from T09 Ch12-16 (V7A) 2015.pdf, Volume V7A, 2015 edition, page 299; merge action: carried; file SHA-256 c88496cf9e57.