Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 9. CIVIL PRACTICE · Chapter 13. EXECUTIONS AND JUDICIAL SALES · Article 3. PROPERTY AGAINST WHICH EXECUTION LEVIED

9-13-51. Sale of property subject to lien; order of application to payment.

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Where property is subject to a lien and part of it is sold by the debtor, the part remaining shall be first applied to the payment of the lien. If the property subject to the lien is sold in several parcels at different times, the parcels shall be charged in the inverse order of their alienation.

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.

Civil Code 1895, § 5424; Civil Code 1910, § 6029; Code 1933, § 39-118.

History of Code section.: The language of this Code section is derived in part from the decision in Craigmiles v. Gamble, 85 Ga. 439, 11 S.E. 838 (1890).

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