Title 9

(a) In all cases of levying on land, written notice of the levy must be given personally or delivered by certified mail or statutory overnight delivery to the tenant in possession and to the defendant if not in possession. (b) The officer levying on land under an execution, withi…

(a) All bonds taken by sheriffs or other executing officers from defendants in execution for the delivery of property, on the day of sale or any other time, which they may have levied on by virtue of any fi. fa. or other legal process from any court shall be good and valid in law…

Whenever personal property is levied upon under any judicial process from the courts of this state and a forthcoming bond is given for the same, the measure of damages to be recovered upon the bond shall be the value of the property at the time of its delivery under the bond, wit…

Any person who fraudulently causes any process, attachment, distress, or execution to be levied on any estrayed animal, lot of land, or other property, knowing that the same is not subject to the process or writ, shall, for the first offense, be guilty of a misdemeanor. For any s…

If execution is issued before the expiration of the time allowed for entering an appeal, the execution will be suspended on the entering of an appeal by either party. (Orig. Code 1863, § 3556; Code 1868, § 3579; Code 1873, § 3634; Code 1882, § 3634; Civil Code 1895, § 5415; Civil…

Every execution shall follow the judgment upon which it issued and shall describe the parties thereto as described in the judgment. (Orig. Code 1863, § 3558; Code 1868, § 3581; Code 1873, § 3636; Code 1882, § 3636; Civil Code 1895, § 5417; Civil Code 1910, § 6022; Code 1933, § 39…

The judge of any superior court may frame and cause to be issued by the clerk thereof any writ of execution to carry into effect any lawful judgment or decree rendered in his court. (Orig. Code 1863, § 3561; Code 1868, § 3584; Code 1873, § 3639; Code 1882, § 3639; Civil Code 1895…

A writ of fieri facias may be amended so as to conform to the judgment upon which it issued and to the time of its return; and such amendments shall in no manner affect the validity of the writ of fieri facias, nor shall the levy of the writ fall or be in any manner invalidated t…

Where a judgment has been amended by order of the court in conformity to the verdict upon which it is predicated and execution has previously issued thereon, the clerk of the court in which the judgment was rendered shall have power to amend the execution at any time so as to mak…

(a) When the clerk of any court has made any mistake in issuing an execution, the clerk or any of his successors in office may correct the mistake by amending the execution and shall note and certify on the execution the fact that the amendment was made by him. (b) Alternatively,…

(a) When an execution which was regularly issued from a court is lost or destroyed, the judge or justice of the court from which the same was issued may at any time, upon proper application and proof of the facts by the affidavit of the applicant, his agent, or his attorney or by…

All executions, except as otherwise provided by this Code, shall be made returnable to the next term of the court from which they issued. (Orig. Code 1863, § 3557; Code 1868, § 3580; Code 1873, § 3635; Code 1882, § 3635; Civil Code 1895, § 5416; Civil Code 1910, § 6021; Code 1933…

When, in a judgment against sureties or endorsers on a draft, promissory note, or other instrument in writing, the plaintiff or his attorney has designated and identified the relation of the parties under the contract on which the judgment was rendered, execution shall issue acco…

In all cases of appeal where security has been given and judgment has been entered against the principal and surety, jointly and severally, execution shall issue accordingly and shall proceed against either or both at the option of the plaintiff until his debt is satisfied. (Orig…

On the death of a defendant after final judgment when no execution has been issued prior to such death, execution may issue as though the death had not taken place. (Orig. Code 1863, § 3370; Code 1868, § 3389; Ga. L. 1873, p. 21, § 1; Code 1873, § 3437; Code 1882, § 3437; Civil C…

Executions issued in favor of or against partners, where the partnership style is used therein instead of the individual names of the persons composing the firm, shall be valid. (Orig. Code 1863, § 3495; Code 1868, § 3518; Code 1873, § 3576; Code 1882, § 3576; Civil Code 1895, § …

The transfer of an execution by the attorney of record shall be good to pass the title thereto as against every person except the plaintiff in execution or his assignee without notice. Ratification by the plaintiff shall estop him also from denying the transfer. Receipt of the mo…

(a) Except as otherwise provided for in subsection (b) of this Code section, whenever any person other than the person against whom the same has issued pays any execution, issued without the judgment of a court, under any law, the officer whose duty it is to enforce the execution…

(a) The defendant in execution shall be at liberty to point out what part of his property he may think proper to be levied on, which property the sheriff or other officer shall be bound to take and sell first if the same is, in the opinion of the levying officer, sufficient to sa…

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 …

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 cou…

No constable, except as provided by this Code, shall be authorized to levy on any real estate unless there is no personal property to be found sufficient to satisfy the debt or unless the real estate, being in the possession of the defendant, was pointed out by the defendant. In …

No sheriff or other officer shall levy on any growing crop of corn, wheat, oats, rye, rice, cotton, potatoes, or any other crop usually raised or cultivated by planters or farmers nor sell the same until the crop has matured and is fit to be gathered. However, this Code section s…

To authorize a sale of personal property there shall be an actual or constructive seizure. (Orig. Code 1863, § 2581; Code 1868, § 2583; Code 1873, § 2625; Code 1882, § 2625; Civil Code 1895, § 5452; Civil Code 1910, § 6057; Code 1933, § 39-1310.)

A future interest in personalty may not be seized and sold but the lien of judgments shall attach thereto so as to prevent alienation before the right to present possession accrues. (Orig. Code 1863, § 2581; Code 1868, § 2583; Code 1873, § 2625; Code 1882, § 2625; Civil Code 1895…

Choses in action are not liable to be seized and sold under execution, unless made so specially by statute. (Orig. Code 1863, § 3501; Code 1868, § 3524; Code 1873, § 3582; Code 1882, § 3582; Civil Code 1895, § 5353; Civil Code 1910, § 5948; Code 1933, § 39-113.)

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 ba…

Where, in an action against two or more joint contractors, joint and several contractors, or partners, service is perfected on only part of the contractors or partners and the officer serving the writ returns that the others are not to be found, the judgment obtained shall bind, …

(a) Where any person other than the vendor or other than the holder or assignee of the purchase money or secured debt has a judgment against a defendant in execution who does not hold legal title to property but has an interest or equity therein, such plaintiff in execution may t…

(a) In all cases in which a verdict or judgment is rendered, the party against whom the same is entered may, either in open court or in the clerk’s office, within four days after the adjournment of court, enter into bond with good and sufficient security for the payment of the ve…

A levy upon personal property sufficient to pay the debt, which levy is unaccounted for, shall be prima-facie evidence of satisfaction to the extent of the value of the property. The unexplained dismissal of the levy shall be an abandonment of the lien so far as third persons are…

If the plaintiff in execution, for a valuable consideration, releases property which is subject to execution, the release shall be a satisfaction of the execution to the extent of the value of the property so released insofar as purchasers and creditors are concerned. However, no…

If an execution creditor having the older lien on a fund in the hands of the sheriff or other officer allows the fund by his consent to be applied to a younger writ of execution, it shall be considered an extinguishment pro tanto of the creditor’s lien insofar as third persons ma…

An agreement for a valuable consideration never to enforce a judgment or execution shall release the judgment or execution. (Orig. Code 1863, § 3587; Code 1868, § 3610; Code 1873, § 3660; Code 1882, § 3660; Civil Code 1895, § 5445; Civil Code 1910, § 6050; Code 1933, § 39-604.)

One judgment may be set off against another, on motion, whether in the hands of an original party or an assignee. The balance on the larger is collectable under execution. The rights of an assignee shall not be interfered with if bona fide and for value. (Orig. Code 1863, §§ 2843…

In all cases of mutual debts and setoffs where the jury finds a balance for the defendant, the defendant may enter judgment for the amount and take out execution in the manner as plaintiffs may do by this Code, provided that the defendant at the time of filing his answer files th…

The security paying off an execution shall have control thereof. (Laws 1826, Cobb’s 1851 Digest, p. 593; Code 1863, § 3590; Code 1868, § 3613; Code 1873, § 3663; Code 1882, § 3663; Civil Code 1895, § 5441; Civil Code 1910, § 6046; Code 1933, § 39-607.)

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 paymen…

When a payment on an execution is made which does not entirely satisfy the judgment upon which the execution has been issued, the plaintiff in execution or his attorney shall authorize the clerk to enter the amount of the payments upon the execution. (Code 1933, § 39-609, enacted…

(a) Upon the satisfaction of the entire debt upon which an execution has been issued, the plaintiff in execution or his or her attorney shall timely direct the clerk to cancel the execution and mark the judgment satisfied. Such direction shall be delivered to the clerk not later …

The court to which a claim is returned shall cause the right of property to be decided by a jury at the first term thereof, unless continued in the same manner as other cases. (Laws 1821, Cobb’s 1851 Digest, pp. 532, 533; Code 1863, § 3660; Code 1868, § 3684; Code 1873, § 3737; C…

Every juror on the trial of the claim of property either real or personal shall be sworn, in addition to the oath usually administered, to give such damages as may seem reasonable and just, in an amount not less than 10 percent of the amount due upon the execution when the value …

Upon the trial of all claims provided for in this article, the burden of proof shall lie upon the plaintiff in execution in all cases where the property levied on is not in possession of the defendant in execution at the time of the levy. (Laws 1821, Cobb’s 1851 Digest, p. 533; C…

Whenever a claim of property is made in terms of this article and is returned to the proper court by the sheriff or other levying officer, the claimant shall not be permitted to withdraw or discontinue his claim more than once without the consent of the plaintiff in execution or …

Whenever a claim is dismissed for insufficiency or is withdrawn, the plaintiff in execution may have a case made up and submitted to the jury charging that the claim was filed for the purpose of delay. Upon proof of the same, defendant and claimant having the same power to resist…

Upon the trial of claims to property which may be pending in the court, when damages are found by the jury, the damages shall be assessed upon the whole amount then due upon the execution when the value of the property in dispute exceeds the amount of the execution and upon the v…