O.C.G.A.
O.C.G.A. § 44-2-5 (2019)
Recording execution and deed after sheriff’s sale; evidence of execution where original lost
✓ O.C.G.A. — 2019 edition (Public.Resource.Org Release 73)
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A purchaser at a sheriff’s sale may have the execution under which the property was sold recorded with his deed together with all the entries on the execution. In the event of the loss or destruction of the original execution, a copy of the record shall be admitted in evidence. (Laws 1845, Cobb’s 1851 Digest, p. 179; Code 1863, § 2671; Code 1868, § 2667; Code 1873, § 2709; Code 1882, § 2709; Civil Code 1895, § 3625; Civil Code 1910, § 4207; Code 1933, § 29-412.)
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JUDICIAL DECISIONS Cited in Mayor of Fort Valley v. Levin, 183 Ga. 837, 190 S.E. 14 (1937); Martin v. Clark, 190 Ga. 270, 9 S.E.2d 54 (1940). RESEARCH REFERENCES C.J.S. - 26A C.J.S., Deeds, § 424.