O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 44-14-345 (2019)

Special lien for rent in favor of transferee of rent contract; foreclosure by transferee

✓ 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 special lien provided for in Code Section 44-14-344 may be foreclosed by the transferee in his own name. The affidavit of foreclosure shall contain a recital of the fact of transfer and such other allegations as are necessary in the foreclosure of special liens by landlords.

History

Ga. L. 1882-83, p. 109, § 2; Civil Code

1895, § 2799; Civil Code 1910, § 3344; Code 1933, § 61-207.

Annotations

RESEARCH REFERENCES Am. Jur. 2d. 49 Am. Jur. 2d, Landlord and Tenant, § 804. C.J.S. 52 C.J.S., Landlord and Tenant, § 614. ALR. Assignment of lease as breach of covenant against subletting, 7 A.L.R. 249; 79 A.L.R. 1379. Rights of lessee who relets for entire

term as against sublessee or person claiming under latter, 32 A.L.R. 1429. Acceptance of rent from assignee or sublessee as relieving assignor or sublessor, 36 A.L.R. 316. Lessee as surety for rent after assignment; and effect of lessor’s dealings (other than consent to assignment or mere acceptance of rent from assignee) to release lessee, 99 A.L.R. 1238.