O.C.G.A.
O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 44-14-461 (2019)

Right to retain possession; forfeiture of lien

✓ 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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Any persons, firms, or corporations shall have the right to retain possession of the equipment repaired by them until their charges have been paid; but, if any equipment is delivered to the person for whom the service or repair was performed without collecting the agreed price or reasonable value of servicing or repairing the equipment, the lien shall be lost upon the equipment so delivered.

History

Code 1981, § 44-14-461, enacted by Ga. L. 1989, p. 1489, § 1.