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O.C.G.A. § 44-14-450 — Creation of lien | Georgia Code

O.C.G.A. § 44-14-450 (2018) Copy Cite Official Site Syfertize CourtListener Scholar Amendments

TITLE 44 PROPERTY

Section 14. Mortgages, Conveyances to Secure Debt, and Liens, 44-14-1 through 44-14-613.

ARTICLE 8 LIENS

44-14-450. Creation of lien.

All persons, firms, or corporations engaged in the business of laundering, cleaning, tailoring, altering, repairing, or dyeing clothing, goods, wearing apparel, shoes, carpets, rugs, or other such articles shall, for the agreed price or the reasonable value of their services in laundering, cleaning, tailoring, altering, repairing, or dyeing any goods, clothing, wearing apparel, shoes, carpets, rugs, or other similar articles, have a lien upon the articles laundered, cleaned, tailored, altered, repaired, or dyed, whether the work of laundering, cleaning, tailoring, altering, repairing, or dyeing the articles is performed by themselves or by their employees.

(Ga. L. 1909, p. 151, § 1; Civil Code 1910, § 3336; Code 1933, § 67-1901; Ga. L. 1987, p. 382, § 1.)

JUDICIAL DECISIONS

Applicability.

- In a suit by a carpet manufacturer against a mill for breach of contract, the trial court properly granted the manufacturer's motion in limine to prevent the mill from complaining that it had a laundryman's lien on unused yarn and backing under O.C.G.A. § 44-14-450. The trial court was authorized to find that tufting the yarn was an initial manufacturing stage and that in tufting the yarn, the mill was not making alterations to carpet. Beaulieu Group, LLC v. S&S Mills, Inc., 292 Ga. App. 455, 664 S.E.2d 816 (2008).

RESEARCH REFERENCES

Am. Jur. 2d.

- 51 Am. Jur. 2d, Liens, §§ 9, 11, 12, 52, 53.

C.J.S.

- 53 C.J.S., Liens, § 4.

ALR.

- Character of service contemplated by statutes giving a lien or preference, in event of insolvency, to servants, employees, laborers, etc., 111 A.L.R. 1453; 142 A.L.R. 362.

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