O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 44-7-17 (2019)

Exemption from liens against tenant of crops paid as rent

✓ 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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When it is agreed that the tenant shall pay to the landlord as rent a part of the crop produced on the lands rented from the landlord and the tenant, in good faith, delivers the part of the crop agreed on in discharge of his rent, such part of the crop so delivered shall be discharged from the lien of any judgment, decree, or other process whatsoever against the tenant.

History

(Ga. L. 1884-85, p. 91, § 1; Civil Code 1895, § 3127; Civil Code 1910, § 3703; Code 1933, § 61-115; Ga. L. 1982, p. 3, § 44.)

Annotations

JUDICIAL DECISIONS Rent to be paid in money. - When the rent was to be paid in money and the tenant turned over a part of the crop in payment, it was not exempt from a judgment against the

tenant. Toler v. Seabrook, 39 Ga. 14 (1869); Almand v. Scott, 80 Ga. 95, 4 S.E. 892, 12 Am. St. R. 241 (1887); Duncan v. Clark, 96 Ga. 263, 22 S.E. 927 (1895).

RESEARCH REFERENCES Am. Jur. 2d. - 49 Am. Jur. 2d, Landlord and Tenant, § 565. C.J.S. - 52A C.J.S., Landlord and Tenant, § 1235 et seq. ALR. - Priority as between landlord’s lien

on chattels and chattel mortgage, 52 ALR 935. Subject-matter covered by landlord’s statutory lien for rent, 96 ALR 249.