O.C.G.A.
O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 9-2-2 (2019)

Actions in personam; actions in rem

✓ 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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(a) An action may be against the person, or against property, or both.

(b) Generally, a proceeding against the person shall bind the property also. A proceeding against property without service on the person shall bind only the particular property.

History

Orig. Code 1863, § 3176; Code 1868, § 3187; Code 1873, § 3252; Code 1882,

§ 3252; Civil Code 1895, § 4931; Civil Code 1910, § 5508; Code 1933, § 3-104; Ga. L. 1982, p. 3, § 9.

Annotations

JUDICIAL DECISIONS

Cited in Carling v. Seymour Lumber Co., 113 F. 483 (5th Cir. 1902); Lowery Lock Co. v. Wright, 154 Ga. 867, 115 S.E. 801 (1923); Hayes v. International Harvester Co. of Am., 52 Ga. App. 328, 183 S.E. 197 (1935); Pollard v. Walton, 55 Ga. App. 353, 190 S.E. 396 (1937); Nixon v. Nixon, 196 Ga. 148, 26 S.E.2d 711 (1943); Retail Credit Co. v. Russell, 234 Ga. 765, 218 S.E.2d 54 (1975); Spinner v. City of Dallas, 292 Ga. App. 251, 663 S.E.2d 815 (2008).

RESEARCH REFERENCES

Am. Jur. 2d. - 1 Am. Jur. 2d, Actions, § 33 et seq.

C.J.S. - 1A C.J.S., Actions, § 87.

Notes of Decisions
Cited in 1 case, 2008–2008 · leading case: Spinner v. City of Dallas, 663 S.E.2d 815 (Ga. Ct. App. 2008).
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Spinner v. City of Dallas, 663 S.E.2d 815 (Ga. Ct. App. 2008). · cites it 2× “” OCGA § 9-2-2 (a). Here, the lawsuit was filed against both Spinner and his property.”
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