O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 18-2-51 (2019)

Foreign assignments to conform with Georgia law

✓ O.C.G.A. — 2019 edition (Public.Resource.Org Release 73)

Code text and O.C.G.A. statutory annotations on this page reflect the 2019 Official Code of Georgia Annotated (Public.Resource.Org Release 73, 2019-08-21; public domain per Georgia v. Public.Resource.Org, 2020). The Syfert case-law annotations in Notes of Decisions, below, are current.

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No property in this state shall pass under any assignment made by corporations, persons, or firms out of this state unless such foreign assignment shall conform to the law of assignments in this state.

History

Ga. L. 1894, p. 90, § 9; Civil Code 1895,

§ 2706; Civil Code 1910, § 3239; Code 1933, § 28-310.

Annotations

JUDICIAL DECISIONS Later change in law. - Assignment contrary to law at time it was made is void, although law was afterwards altered. Mason & Fant v. S. Stricker & Co., 37 Ga. 262, 1867 Ga. LEXIS 155 (1867). Situs of debt follows creditor, and

law of creditor’s domicile prevails where creditor and debtor are residents of different states. Birdseye v. Underhill, 82 Ga. 142, 7 S.E. 863, 1888 Ga. LEXIS 375 (1888).

RESEARCH REFERENCES C.J.S. 21 C.J.S., Creditor and Debtor, § 42.