2020 Georgia Code
Title 44 - Property
Chapter 7 - Landlord and Tenant
Article 4 - Distress Warrants
§ 44-7-70. Power of Landlord to Distrain for Rent
The landlord shall have power to distrain for rent as soon as the same is due if the tenant is seeking to remove his property from the premises.
(Laws 1811, Cobb's 1851 Digest, p. 901; Code 1863, § 2267; Code 1868, § 2259; Code 1873, § 2285; Code 1882, § 2285; Civil Code 1895, § 3124; Civil Code 1910, § 3700; Code 1933, § 61-401; Ga. L. 1975, p. 1514, § 2.)
RESEARCH REFERENCES
Am. Jur. 2d.
- 49 Am. Jur. 2d, Landlord and Tenant, § 591.
C.J.S.- 52A C.J.S., Landlord and Tenant, § 1275 et seq.
ALR.
- Landlord's lien or right of distress on property sold to tenant on conditional sale, 45 A.L.R. 949.
Validity and effect of acceleration clause in lease or bailment, 58 A.L.R. 300; 128 A.L.R. 750.
Right of distraint for taxes which tenant has agreed to pay, 88 A.L.R. 884.
Doctrine of breach by anticipatory repudiation of contract as applicable to lease, 137 A.L.R. 432.
Landlord's remedy by way of distress or lien on defaulting tenant's property on leased premises as including right to collect for all unpaid utility expenses, 99 A.L.R.3d 1100.
