O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 44-14-343 (2019)

Enforcement of special lien for rent by distress warrant

✓ 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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A landlord’s special lien for rent shall be enforced by a distress warrant in the same manner as general liens for rent are enforced; and no further allegations in the affidavit to procure a distress warrant to enforce a special lien for rent shall be necessary than are necessary to enforce the landlord’s general lien for rent.

History

Ga. L. 1887, p. 34, § 1; Civil Code 1895,

§ 2797; Civil Code 1910, § 3342; Code 1933, § 61-205.

Annotations

RESEARCH REFERENCES Am. Jur. 2d. 49 Am. Jur. 2d, Landlord and Tenant, § 853. C.J.S. 52 C.J.S., Landlord and Tenant, § 676. ALR. Subject matter covered by landlord’s statutory lien for rent, 9 A.L.R. 300; 96 A.L.R. 249. Landlord’s lien or right of distress on property sold to tenant on conditional sale, 45 A.L.R. 949. Right as between landlord and condi-

tional seller of property to tenant, 45 A.L.R. 967; 98 A.L.R. 628. Priority as between landlord’s lien on chattels and chattel mortgage, 52 A.L.R. 935. Attachment, execution, or recovery of personal judgment as waiver of landlord’s lien, 151 A.L.R. 679. Landlord’s remedy by way of distress or lien on defaulting tenant’s property on leased premises as including right to collect for all unpaid utility expenses, 99 A.L.R.3d 1100.