O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 9-13-162 (2019)

Continuance of sale from day to day

✓ 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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Any sheriff, coroner, constable, tax collector, guardian, trustee, or any other officer of this state, when selling property at public sale by virtue of any law of this state, may continue the sale from day to day until the sale is completed, provided that the trustee or other officer has given

notice of the intended continuance in the advertisement of the sale.

History

(Ga. L. 1851-52, p. 242, § 1; Code 1882, § 3646a; Civil Code 1895, § 5456; Civil Code 1910, § 6061; Code 1933, § 39-1202.)

Annotations

JUDICIAL DECISIONS Officer conducting judicial sale must keep sale open until competent bid is received or until the officer is satisfied that such a bid will not be offered. Wachovia Mtg. Co. v. DeKalb County, 241 Ga. 416, 246 S.E.2d 183 (1978). Upon failure of purchaser to com-

ply with the purchaser’s bid, the sheriff may resell, within legal hours, on same day, without readvertisement. Williams v. Barlow, 49 Ga. 530 (1873); Humphrey v. McGill, 59 Ga. 649 (1877); Wachovia Mtg. Co. v. DeKalb County, 241 Ga. 416, 246 S.E.2d 183 (1978).

RESEARCH REFERENCES Am. Jur. 2d. - 47 Am. Jur. 2d, Judicial Sales, § 56 et seq.

C.J.S. - 50A C.J.S., Judicial Sales, § 30 et seq.