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2018 Georgia Code 44-14-611 | Car Wreck Lawyer

TITLE 44 PROPERTY

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

ARTICLE 9 LIS PENDENS

44-14-611. Lis pendens docket; indexing; recording fees.

The clerks of the superior courts of this state shall keep a lis pendens docket in which they shall record all notices of lis pendens on real property filed with them, such lis pendens docket to have proper indexes arranged alphabetically both as to direct and inverse; and the clerks shall be allowed a fee, as required by subparagraph (f)(1)(A) of Code Section 15-6-77, for recording the lis pendens in the lis pendens docket.

(Ga. L. 1939, p. 345, § 2; Ga. L. 1981, p. 1396, § 21; Ga. L. 1992, p. 6, § 44.)

JUDICIAL DECISIONS

Only those suits or actions which involve real property are to be docketed. Watson v. Whatley, 218 Ga. 86, 126 S.E.2d 621 (1962).

Cited in Wright v. Edmondson, 189 Ga. 310, 5 S.E.2d 769 (1939); Godfrey v. City of Cochran, 208 Ga. 149, 65 S.E.2d 605 (1951); Berger v. Shea, 150 Ga. App. 812, 258 S.E.2d 621 (1979).

RESEARCH REFERENCES

Am. Jur. 2d.

- 51 Am. Jur. 2d, Lis Pendens, §§ 46, 47. 66 Am. Jur. 2d, Records, and Recording Laws, § 64.

C.J.S.

- 54 C.J.S., Lis Pendens, § 18. 76 C.J.S., Records, § 19 et seq.

ALR.

- Statute requiring filing of formal notice of lis pendens in certain classes of cases as affecting common-law doctrine of lis pendens in other cases, 10 A.L.R. 306.

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