O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 18-2-58 (2019)

Judgment not required before action against assignor or assignee

✓ 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 creditor shall be required to reduce his debt to judgment before asking equitable relief in any action against the assignor or assignee, or both.

History

Ga. L. 1894, p. 90, § 16; Civil Code

1895, § 2713; Civil Code 1910, § 3246; Code 1933, § 28-317.

Annotations

RESEARCH REFERENCES C.J.S. 37 C.J.S., Fraudulent Conveyances, § 170 et seq. ALR. Death of principal defendant as abating or dissolving garnishment or attachment, 21 A.L.R. 272; 131 A.L.R. 1146.

Right of creditors in respect of property gratuitously conveyed or transferred to a third person for alleged benefit of debtor, 147 A.L.R. 1160.