Official Code of Georgia Annotated
Title 9. CIVIL PRACTICE · Chapter 13. EXECUTIONS AND JUDICIAL SALES · Article 3. PROPERTY AGAINST WHICH EXECUTION LEVIED
9-13-58. Corporation’s disclosure of worth of defendant’s shares mandated; refusal treated as contempt.
Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.
Upon demand by any sheriff, constable, or other levying officer having in his hands any execution against any person who is the owner of any shares of stock of a bank or corporation upon the president, superintendent, manager, or other officer having access to the books of the bank or corporation, the president, superintendent, manager, or other officer aforesaid shall disclose to the levying officer the number of shares and the par value thereof owned by the defendant in execution and, on refusal to do so, shall be considered in contempt of court and punished accordingly.
History
Laws 1822, Cobb’s 1851 Digest, p. 511; Code 1863, § 2582; Code 1868, § 2584; Code 1873, § 2626; Code 1882, § 2626; Ga. L. 1890-91, p. 73, § 1; Ga. L. 1894, p. 45, § 1; Civil Code 1895, § 5430; Civil Code 1910, § 6035; Code 1933, § 39-123.
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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.
Text read from T09 Ch12-16 (V7A) 2015.pdf, Volume V7A, 2015 edition, page 212; merge action: carried; file SHA-256 c88496cf9e57.