O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 48-4-7 (2019)

Authority of levying officer to put purchaser in possession of land

✓ 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 officer selling property at a tax sale shall have the authority to put purchasers in possession of land sold under tax fi. fas., as in other cases.

History

Orig. Code 1863, § 816; Code 1868, § 896; Code 1873, § 894; Code 1882, § 894; Civil Code 1895, § 914; Civil Code

1910, § 1177; Code 1933, § 92-8108; Code 1933, § 91A-407, enacted by Ga. L. 1978, p. 309, § 2.

Annotations

JUDICIAL DECISIONS No right to possession pending redemption. - Purchaser of land at a tax sale is not entitled to be placed in possession until after the time for

redemption has expired. Elrod v. Groves, 116 Ga. 468, 42 S.E. 731, 1902 Ga. LEXIS 141 (1902).

RESEARCH REFERENCES Am. Jur. 2d. 30 Am. Jur. 2d, Executions, § 403 et seq. 72 Am. Jur. 2d, State and Local Taxation, § 853.

C.J.S. 33 C.J.S., Executions, §§ 496, 497. 85 C.J.S., Taxation, § 1480 et seq.

ARTICLE 2 PURCHASE BY COUNTIES