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# O.C.G.A. § 9-8-5. Intervention of persons asserting equitable remedies.

Where property has been placed in the hands of a receiver, all persons properly seeking to assert equitable remedies against such assets shall become parties to the case by intervention and shall prosecute their remedies therein.

## History

Civil Code 1895, § 4903; Civil Code 1910, § 5478; Code 1933, § 55-304.

## Law Reviews

For article discussing origin and construction of Georgia provision concerning creditors’ rights and receivership, see 14 Ga. L. Rev. 239 (1980).

## History of Section.

The language of this Code section is derived in part from the decisions in National Bank v. Richmond Factory, 91 Ga. 284, 18 S.E. 160 (1893) and Empire Lumber Co. v. Kiser & Co., 91 Ga. 643, 17 S.E. 972 (1893).