O.C.G.A.
O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 45-4-27 (2019)

Effect of recovery on bond upon subsequent proceedings

✓ 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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Official bonds of public officers shall not be discharged by a single recovery, but proceedings against the officer or his sureties or both may be had from time to time until the whole penalty is exhausted; and said bonds are joint and several whether or not so set forth.

History

(Laws 1847, Cobb's 1851 Digest, p. 502; Code 1863, § 159; Code 1868, § 154; Code 1873, § 165; Code 1882, § 165; Civil Code 1895, § 261; Civil Code 1910, § 296; Code 1933, § 89-422.)

Annotations

JUDICIAL DECISIONS

Cited in Maryland Cas. Co. v. Salmon, 45 Ga. App. 173, 164 S.E. 80 (1932).

RESEARCH REFERENCES

Am. Jur. 2d. - 63C Am. Jur. 2d, Public Officers and Employees, § 368.

C.J.S. - 67 C.J.S., Officers and Public Employees, § 493.