O.C.G.A.
O.C.G.A. § 7-1-167 (2019)
Payment of mortgages and liens; protection of equities
✓ 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 department may, with leave of court, pay off all mortgages, security deeds, security agreements, and liens of or upon any real or personal property which belong to the financial institution. It may, without leave of court, purchase, at a judicial sale or at any sale authorized by an order of a court of competent jurisdiction, any real or personal property in order to protect any equity which the financial institution has in such real or personal property.
History
Ga. L. 1922, p. 63, § 1; Code 1933,
§ 13-808; Code 1933, § 41A-718, enacted by Ga. L. 1974, p. 705, § 1.