O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 44-14-611 (2019)

Lis pendens docket; indexing; recording fees

✓ O.C.G.A. — 2019 edition (Public.Resource.Org Release 73)

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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.

History

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

Annotations

JUDICIAL DECISIONS Only those suits or actions which involve real property are to be dock-

eted. Watson v. Whatley, 218 Ga. 86, 126 S.E.2d 621, 1962 Ga. LEXIS 434 (1962).

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.

Notes of Decisions

Cited in 2 cases, 1988–1988 · leading case: Panfel v. Boyd, 371 S.E.2d 222 (Ga. Ct. App. 1988).

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Panfel v. Boyd, 371 S.E.2d 222 (Ga. Ct. App. 1988). · cites it 2× “OCGA § 44-14-611. Hence, for a litigant’s action involving realty to place the world on notice and to bind the public as to the outcome, it is necessary to file lis pendens.”

Panfel v. Boyd, 367 S.E.2d 54 (Ga. Ct. App. 1988). · cites it 2× “OCGA § 44-14-611. Hence, for a litigant’s action involving realty to place the world on notice and to bind the public as to the outcome, it is necessary to file lis pendens.”

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