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2018 Georgia Code 18-2-41 | Car Wreck Lawyer

TITLE 18 DEBTOR AND CREDITOR

Section 2. Debtor and Creditor Relations, 18-2-1 through 18-2-85.

ARTICLE 3 PREFERENCES AND ASSIGNMENTS FOR BENEFIT OF CREDITORS

18-2-41. Rights of nonmunicipal corporation.

Any corporation, not municipal, may make an assignment for the benefit of creditors; but no such corporation shall be allowed in such assignment to prefer any creditor or class of creditors, except creditors who have debts entitled to priority by law.

(Ga. L. 1894, p. 90, § 1; Civil Code 1895, § 2698; Civil Code 1910, § 3231; Code 1933, § 28-302.)

JUDICIAL DECISIONS

Comparison of corporate rights to those of individual.

- Corporation has an equal right with an individual allowing preference, but clearly under the law a corporation "shall not be allowed to prefer any creditor or class of creditors, except such as have debts entitled to priority by the laws of this State." Milledgeville Banking Co. v. McIntyre Alliance Store, 98 Ga. 503, 25 S.E. 567 (1896).

Assignments with or without preferences.

- Insolvent corporation is capable of making a general assignment for benefit of creditors, either with or without giving preference and priority of payment to certain of the creditors. Albany & Renssellaer Iron & Steel Co. v. Southern Agric. Works, 76 Ga. 135, 2 Am. St. R. 26 (1886).

Preference of creditor even though incidental benefit accrues to directors.

- Right of debtor corporation to prefer a creditor, and right of creditor to be preferred, cannot be lost simply because, as a mere incident to the transaction by which preference is effected, the directors may themselves gain some benefit. Milledgeville Banking Co. v. McIntyre Alliance Store, 98 Ga. 503, 25 S.E. 567 (1896); Atlas Tack Co. v. Macon Hdwe. Co., 101 Ga. 391, 29 S.E. 27 (1897).

Sole owner of insolvent corporation preferring self as creditor.

- Sole owner and president of defendant corporation may not, after corporation becomes insolvent, seize all the corporation's remaining assets and apply those assets to the debt owed by the corporation to the owner personally, thereby rendering the corporation incapable of paying its other business debts. Fountain v. Burke, 160 Ga. App. 262, 287 S.E.2d 39 (1981).

RESEARCH REFERENCES

Am. Jur. 2d.

- 6 Am. Jur. 2d, Assignments for Benefit of Creditors, § 10.

ALR.

- Right of resident creditors of foreign corporation to preference over nonresident creditors, 1 A.L.R. 648.

Right of creditor of corporation to maintain action or suit for his own benefit against another creditor to whom corporation has given a preference, 12 A.L.R. 246.

Right of corporation to prefer creditors, 19 A.L.R. 320; 38 A.L.R. 90; 48 A.L.R. 479; 56 A.L.R. 207; 62 A.L.R. 738.

Waiver of right of government to preference in the assets of insolvent debtor by taking security, 24 A.L.R. 1495; 83 A.L.R. 1119.

Priority as between different assignees of same chose in action as affected by notice to debtor, 31 A.L.R. 876; 110 A.L.R. 774.

Power of municipality to transfer or assign its right to enforce assessment or lien for local improvements, 55 A.L.R. 667.

Payment of depositor's check after insolvency of bank as an unlawful preference, 74 A.L.R. 937.

Debtor's return of merchandise to selling creditor for credit as preferential transfer voidable in bankruptcy proceedings, 62 A.L.R.2d 774.

Validity of provision in deed or transfer to assignee for benefit of creditors for payment of attorneys' fees, 79 A.L.R.2d 513.

Cases Citing Georgia Code 18-2-41 From Courtlistener.com

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Storey v. Town of Summerville

Court: Supreme Court of Georgia | Date Filed: 1924-04-24

Citation: 158 Ga. 182, 1924 Ga. LEXIS 103, 123 S.E. 139

Snippet: reason suggested. In Sessions v. State, 115 Ga. 18 (2) (41 S. E. 259), it was held: “Legislation having