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2018 Georgia Code 44-12-155 | Car Wreck Lawyer

Link to State of Georgia Official Statute 2018 Georgia Code Annotated (sourced from legal.resource.org)

O.C.G.A. 44-12-155 Case Law from Google Scholar Amendments to OCGA 44-12-155

TITLE 44 PROPERTY

Section 12. Rights in Personalty, 44-12-1 through 44-12-322.

ARTICLE 4 TROVER

44-12-155. Alternative verdict; effect as first lien pending payment of judgment.

An alternative verdict in an action of trover vests the title to the property in the plaintiff to the extent that until the judgment is paid by the defendant such judgment shall constitute the first lien on the property to the exclusion of all other claims whatsoever.

(Laws 1830, Cobb's 1851 Digest, p. 500; Code 1863, § 3012; Code 1868, § 3024; Code 1873, § 3079; Code 1882, § 3079; Civil Code 1895, § 3920; Civil Code 1910, § 4517; Code 1933, § 107-106.)

JUDICIAL DECISIONS

Election of money judgment creates lien on property.

- Where a money judgment is elected, this judgment becomes a special lien upon the property sued for, and a general lien upon all other property of the defendant. McWilliams v. Hemingway, 80 Ga. App. 843, 57 S.E.2d 623 (1950).

Cited in Hudson v. Goff, 77 Ga. 281, 3 S.E. 152 (1886); Frick & Co. v. Davis, 80 Ga. 482, 5 S.E. 498 (1888); Bradley v. Burkett, 82 Ga. 255, 11 S.E. 492 (1889); Whitehead v. Southern Disct. Co., 109 Ga. App. 126, 135 S.E.2d 496 (1964).

RESEARCH REFERENCES

ALR.

- Judgment in replevin as implying a direction for return of property, 144 A.L.R. 1149.

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