O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 9-13-32 (2019)

Execution following death of defendant

✓ 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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On the death of a defendant after final judgment when no execution has been issued prior to such death, execution may issue as though the death had not taken place.

History

(Orig. Code 1863, § 3370; Code 1868, § 3389; Ga. L. 1873, p. 21, § 1; Code 1873, § 3437; Code 1882, § 3437; Civil Code 1895, § 5034; Civil Code 1910, § 5616; Code 1933, § 3-419.)

Annotations

JUDICIAL DECISIONS This section changed common-law rule. Smith v. Lockett, 73 Ga. 104 (1884); Mims v. McKenzie, 22 Ga. App. 571, 96 S.E. 441 (1918). Death of defendant after issuance of execution will not prevent sale of property. Brooks v. Rooney, 11 Ga. 423 (1852); Hudgins v. McLain, 116 Ga. 273, 42 S.E. 489 (1902).

Death of defendant will not prevent officer from making entry of levy to prevent dormancy. Hatcher v. Lord, 115 Ga. 619, 41 S.E. 1007 (1902). Cited in Pursley v. Manley, 166 Ga. 809, 144 S.E. 242 (1928).

RESEARCH REFERENCES Am. Jur. 2d. - 1 Am. Jur. 2d, Abatement, Survival, and Revival, § 57. 30 Am. Jur. 2d, Executions and Enforcement of Judgments, § 52.

C.J.S. - 1 C.J.S., Abatement and Revival, § 151. 33 C.J.S., Executions, § 71 et seq.