Official Code of Georgia Annotated

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

9-13-52. When sheriff may levy on and sell land outside county.

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A sheriff or other levying officer shall not sell land outside the county in which he is sheriff or such officer except when the defendant in execution owns a tract or tracts of land divided by the line of the county of his residence, in which case the land may be sold in the county of his residence; if such tract of land is in a county other than that of the defendant’s residence, it may be levied on and sold in either county.

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 1808, Cobb’s 1851 Digest, p. 509; Laws 1847, Cobb’s 1851 Digest, p. 516; Code 1863, § 3573; Code 1868, § 3596; Code 1873, § 3644; Code 1882, § 3644; Civil Code 1895, § 5428; Civil Code 1910, § 6033; Code 1933, § 39-122.

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