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2018 Georgia Code 44-7-17 | Car Wreck Lawyer

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TITLE 44 PROPERTY

Section 7. Landlord and Tenant, 44-7-1 through 44-7-119.

ARTICLE 1 IN GENERAL

44-7-17. Exemption from liens against tenant of crops paid as rent.

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.

(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.)

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 A.L.R. 935.

Subject-matter covered by landlord's statutory lien for rent, 96 A.L.R. 249.

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