O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 9-13-95 (2019)

Execution of affidavit and bond by partner or joint owner

✓ 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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One of several partners or persons jointly interested may make the affidavit and execute the bond in the name of the firm or persons jointly interested, who shall be bound thereby as though each individual had signed it himself. (Laws 1838, Cobb’s 1851 Digest, p. 589; Code 1863, § 3656; Code 1868, § 3681; Code 1873, § 3731; Code 1882, § 3731; Civil Code 1895, § 4617; Civil Code 1910, § 5163; Code 1933, § 39-806.)

Annotations

JUDICIAL DECISIONS Member of partnership is authorized to execute claim affidavit in be-

half of the partnership. GMAC v. Allen, 59 Ga. App. 614, 1 S.E.2d 705 (1939).

RESEARCH REFERENCES Am. Jur. 2d. - 12 Am. Jur. 2d, Bonds, §§ 12, 13.

C.J.S. - 33 C.J.S., Executions, § 336.