O.C.G.A. § 53-3-18 (2019)
Landlord’s lien on crops
Whenever a tenant dies owing a landlord for rent or for supplies for which the landlord has a special lien on the crops made on the lands rented from the landlord in the year the rent accrued or supplies were furnished, neither the surviving spouse nor spouse and minor children nor minor child or children only of the tenant shall be entitled to year’s support out of the crops so planted or grown in that year as against the landlord until the accounts for the rent and supplies are fully paid, provided that the surviving spouse shall be entitled to year’s support in such part of the crop as may remain after the landlord’s lien for rent and supplies shall have been discharged.
History
Code 1981, § 53-3-18, enacted by Ga. L. 1996, p. 504, § 10.
Annotations
COMMENT This section carries forward former OCGA Sec. 53-5-19. JUDICIAL DECISIONS Editor’s notes. - In light of the similarity of the statutory provisions, decisions under former Civil Code 1910, § 4050 and former Code 1933, § 113-1012, are included in the annotations for this Code section.
Cited in Moore v. Ramsey & Legwen, 144 Ga. 118, 86 S.E. 219 (1915); Philpot v. Ramsey & Hogan, 47 Ga. App. 635, 171 S.E. 204 (1933).
RESEARCH REFERENCES Am. Jur. 2d. - 31 Am. Jur. 2d, Executors and Administrators, §§ 690, 691.
C.J.S. - 34 C.J.S., Executors and Administrators, § 454.