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(Ga. L. 1878-79, p. 99, § 2; Code 1882, § 2039c; Civil Code 1895, § 2865; Civil Code 1910, § 3415; Code 1933, § 51-1201; Code 1981, §44-13-4; Code 1981, §44-13-3, as redesignated by Ga. L. 1983, p. 1170, § 2.)
- Ga. L. 1983, p. 1170, § 2, effective July 1, 1983, redesignated former Code Section 44-13-4 as this Code section. The 1983 Act also redesignated former Code Section 44-13-3, relating to application for exemption by spouse, as present Code Section 44-13-2.
- A supplemental homestead is not realty after personalty, or personalty after realty, but both or either after both, or one after a previous one of like kind. Dickinson v. Haralson, 61 Ga. 526 (1878).
A second homestead is not valid as a supplemental exemption, under the provisions of O.C.G.A. § 44-13-3. First Nat'l Bank v. Massengill, 80 Ga. 333, 5 S.E. 100 (1887); Darlington v. Belt, 12 Ga. App. 522, 77 S.E. 653 (1913).
- 31 Am. Jur. 2d, Exemptions, § 129.
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