O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 18-3-55 (2019)

Interposition of claim before or after 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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In cases of attachment, the claim may be interposed either before or after judgment.

History

Orig. Code 1863, § 3240; Code 1868, § 3251; Code 1873, § 3327; Code 1882,

§ 3327; Civil Code 1895, § 4574; Civil Code 1910, § 5120; Code 1933, § 8-806.

Annotations

JUDICIAL DECISIONS Issue in claim interposed before judgment is whether property levied on is claimant’s or defendant’s. W.B. Parham & Co. v. Potts-Thompson Liquor Co., 127

Ga. 303, 56 S.E. 460, 1907 Ga. LEXIS 242 (1907). Claim interposed pending attachment dismissed for irregularity. - If a

claim, interposed pending attachment, be dismissed for irregularity, such dismissal is no bar to another claim, after judgment on the attachment. Benton v. Benson, 32 Ga. 354, 1861 Ga. LEXIS 187 (1861).

Third person, not party to attachment, may claim property at any time before the property’s sale. Simmons v. Bennett, 20 Ga. 48, 1856 Ga. LEXIS 9 (1856).

ARTICLE 4 JUDGMENT, EXECUTION, AND LEVY