O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 44-12-155 (2019)

Alternative verdict; effect as first lien pending payment of 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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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.

History

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.

Annotations

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 Ga. App. LEXIS 795 (1950).

RESEARCH REFERENCES ALR. Judgment in replevin as implying a

direction for return of property, 144 A.L.R. 1149.