O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 44-2-66 (2019)

Petition - Persons included as defendants

✓ 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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The petition shall include as defendants all persons whom it shows to have any interest, equity, or claim upon said land or upon any interest in the land whether such claim is vested or contingent and whether or not the claim is adverse to the petitioner; and the petition shall also include as defendants all other persons ‘‘whom it may concern.’’

History

(Ga. L. 1917, p. 108, § 9; Code 1933, § 60-205.)

Annotations

JUDICIAL DECISIONS dant; since the claimant was not named and served as such, the claimant was not bound by the decree rendered in such proceedings. Couey v. Talalah Estates Corp., 183 Ga. 442, 188 S.E. 822 (1936). Cited in Turner v. Kelley, 212 Ga. 175, 91 S.E.2d 356 (1956).

Party neither named nor served not bound by decree. - When there was a known claimant of the land which the plaintiff sought to have registered who was in possession thereof at the time the proceedings were instituted, this section required that the claimant be named as a party defen-

RESEARCH REFERENCES Am. Jur. 2d. - 66 Am. Jur. 2d, Registration of Land Titles, § 18.

C.J.S. - 76 C.J.S., Registration of Land Titles, § 9.