Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 9. CIVIL PRACTICE · Chapter 13. EXECUTIONS AND JUDICIAL SALES · Article 4. SATISFACTION OR DISCHARGE OF JUDGMENT AND EXECUTION

9-13-78. Control of execution after payment — By joint debtor.

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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

When judgments have been obtained against several persons and one of them has paid more than his just proportion of the same, he may have full power to control and use the execution as securities in execution control the same against principals or cosureties by having this payment entered on the execution issued to enforce the judgment, and he shall not be compelled to bring an action against the codebtors for the excess of payment on the judgment.

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.

Ga. L. 1871-72, p. 54, § 1; Code 1873, § 3599; Code 1882, § 3599; Civil Code 1895, § 5376; Civil Code 1910, § 5971; Code 1933, § 39-608.

Right to contribution among joint trespassers; effect of settlement, § 51-12-32.

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Text read from T09 Ch12-16 (V7A) 2015.pdf, Volume V7A, 2015 edition, page 228; merge action: carried; file SHA-256 c88496cf9e57.