O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 44-13-87 (2019)

Right of applicant to select exempt property

✓ 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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The applicant for exemption from levy and sale of property under this

article shall be permitted to select the property to be exempted but not to exceed the amount allowed by law.

History

Ga. L. 1872, p. 43, § 7; Code 1873, § 2039; Code 1882, § 2039; Civil Code

1895, § 2862; Civil Code 1910, § 3412; Code 1933, § 51-1008; Ga. L. 1983, p. 1170, § 2.

Annotations

RESEARCH REFERENCES Am. Jur. 2d. 31 Am. Jur. 2d, Exemptions, §§ 135,

137 et seq. 40 Am. Jur. 2d, Homesteads, § 77 et seq.

ARTICLE 2 STATUTORY EXEMPTIONS OPINIONS OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL Levy for delinquent motor vehicle ad valorem taxes can be executed

against homestead. 1968 Op. Att’y Gen. No. 68-146.

RESEARCH REFERENCES ALR. Exemption of proceeds of voluntary sale of homestead, 1 A.L.R. 483; 46 A.L.R. 814. Right of individual partner to exemption in partnership property, 4 A.L.R. 300. Action for damages against signing spouse for breach of contract to convey homestead signed by one spouse only, 4 A.L.R. 1272; 16 A.L.R. 1036. What are “tools,” “implements,” “instruments,” “utensils,” or “apparatus,” within the meaning of debtor’s exemption laws, 52 A.L.R. 826.

Attempt to resist enforcement of judgment or execution against real property on ground that it is exempt, as involving title to real property within contemplation of jurisdictional provision, 75 A.L.R. 1230. Homestead right of cotenant as affecting partition, 140 A.L.R. 1170. Exemption of insurance proceeds as available to assignee of policy, 1 A.L.R.2d 1031. Recovery of damages for breach of contract to convey homestead where only one spouse signed contract, 3 A.L.R.5th 370.