O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 18-3-3 (2019)

Attachment prior to debt becoming due; stay of execution when debt not due before final judgment

✓ 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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When the debt is not due, the debtor shall be subject to attachment in the same manner and to the same extent as in cases where the debt is due, except that, where the debt does not become due before final judgment, execution upon the judgment shall be stayed until the debt is due.

History

Laws 1816, Cobb’s 1851 Digest, p. 75; Code 1863, § 3197; Code 1868, § 3208;

Code 1873, § 3275; Code 1882, § 3275; Civil Code 1895, § 4521; Civil Code 1910, § 5066; Code 1933, § 8-103.

Annotations

JUDICIAL DECISIONS Attachment under Laws 1816, Cobb’s 1851 Digest, p. 75 (see now O.C.G.A. § 18-3-3) must be by affidavit in the form required by Ga. L. 1855-56, p.

25, § 42 (see now O.C.G.A. § 18-3-19). Harrill v. Humphries, 26 Ga. 514, 1858 Ga. LEXIS 352 (1858).

RESEARCH REFERENCES ALR. What amounts to a “debt” within statute providing for attachment before debt is due, 65 A.L.R. 1439; 58 A.L.R.2d 1451. What sort of claim, obligation, or liabil-

ity is within contemplation of statute providing for attachment, or giving right of action for indemnity, before a debt or liability is due, 58 A.L.R.2d 1451.