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title: O.C.G.A. § 9-13-176. How possession obtained after expiration of court term or replacement of officer.
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# O.C.G.A. § 9-13-176. How possession obtained after expiration of court term or replacement of officer.

If the purchaser of real estate at sheriff’s and other sales under execution fails to make application for possession thereof until the next term of the superior court after the sale has taken place or until the officer making the sale has gone out of office, the possession may be obtained only under an order of the superior court.

## History

Orig. Code 1863, § 3579; Code 1868, § 3602; Code 1873, § 3652; Code 1882, § 3652; Civil Code 1895, § 5469; Civil Code 1910, § 6074; Code 1933, § 39-1313.