O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 44-14-40 (2019)

Probate of mortgages

✓ 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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All the rules prescribed for the probate of deeds to land when the

witnesses are dead, insane, or removed from the state and all the rules prescribed for the acknowledgment before or attestation by consuls or commissioners shall apply to the probate of mortgages.

History

Orig. Code 1863, § 1963; Code 1868, § 1951; Code 1873, § 1961; Code 1882,

§ 1961; Civil Code 1895, § 2731; Civil Code 1910, § 3264; Code 1933, § 67-112.

Annotations

RESEARCH REFERENCES ALR. Sufficiency of certificate of acknowledgment, 29 A.L.R. 919. Right of one claiming through heir, devisee, or personal representative to protection against unrecorded conveyance or mortgage by ancestor or testator, 65 A.L.R. 360.

Right of executor or administrator of insolvent estate to take advantage of failure to record, or file, or refile a conveyance or mortgage executed by his decedent, 91 A.L.R. 299. Sufficiency of certificate of acknowledgment, 25 A.L.R.2d 1124.