O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 18-3-16 (2019)

Issuance and levy of attachment on Sunday

✓ 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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Attachments may issue and be levied on Sunday when the plaintiff, his agent, or his attorney at law shall state, in his sworn application for a writ of attachment, that he has reason to believe the debt will not be satisfied unless process of attachment shall issue on Sunday and shall also comply with the other provisions of this chapter.

History

Laws 1834, Cobb’s 1851 Digest, p. 482; Ga. L. 1855-56, p. 25, § 23; Code 1863, § 3196; Code 1868, § 3207; Code 1873,

§ 3274; Code 1882, § 3274; Civil Code 1895, § 4520; Civil Code 1910, § 5065; Code 1933, § 8-115.

Annotations

JUDICIAL DECISIONS Omission in pleadings of oath required is amendable when necessary facts existed at time of attachment under

this statute was issued. Sloan v. Smith, 29 Ga. App. 591, 116 S.E. 200, 1923 Ga. App. LEXIS 134 (1923).

RESEARCH REFERENCES ALR. Power of municipal corporation to legis-

late as to Sunday observance, 37 A.L.R. 575.