O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 44-6-169 (2019)

Title to property sold; execution of deed of conveyance by commissioners

✓ 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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Upon the sale of lands and tenements as provided for in Code Section 44-6-167, the parties in interest shall execute a title to the purchaser; and, if any of them shall fail or refuse to do so, the commissioners or any two of them shall execute a deed of conveyance to such lands and tenements to the purchaser at such sale, which deed shall be as valid and binding as if made by the parties themselves. (Laws 1837, Cobb’s 1851 Digest, p. 584; Code 1863, § 3905; Code 1868, § 3929; Code 1873, § 4005; Code 1882, § 4005; Civil Code 1895, § 4795; Civil Code 1910, § 5367; Code 1933, § 85-1513.)

Annotations

JUDICIAL DECISIONS Rights of cotenants protected by right to object to sale’s confirmation. - If for any reason property sold under this statute does not bring the property’s fair market value, the rights of the cotenants are protected by the right to object to the confirmation of the sale. If the sale is unfair or inequitable to the

parties, the court will refuse to confirm the sale and will order a resale. Lankford v. Milhollin, 200 Ga. 512, 37 S.E.2d 197 (1946) (see O.C.G.A. § 44-6-169). Cited in Childs v. Hayman, 72 Ga. 791 (1884); Leggitt v. Allen, 85 Ga. App. 280, 69 S.E.2d 106 (1952).

RESEARCH REFERENCES Am. Jur. 2d. - 59A Am. Jur. 2d, Partition, § 130.

C.J.S. - 68 C.J.S., Partition, §§ 14, 276.