2020 Georgia Code
Title 44 - Property
Chapter 7 - Landlord and Tenant
Article 4 - Distress Warrants
§ 44-7-80. Time for Attachment of Landlord's Lien; Priorities

Universal Citation: GA Code § 44-7-80 (2020)

The landlord's lien for his rent shall attach from the time that the affidavit is made pursuant to Code Section 44-7-71; but it shall take precedence over no lien of older date except as to the crop raised on the premises.

(Orig. Code 1863, § 2268; Code 1868, § 2260; Code 1873, § 2286; Code 1882, § 2286; Civil Code 1895, § 3125; Civil Code 1910, § 3701; Code 1933, § 61-403; Code 1933, § 61-410, enacted by Ga. L. 1975, p. 1514, § 2.)

Law reviews.

- For article, "The New Documentary Concerns Associated With Intelligent Buildings," see 22 Ga. St. B.J. 16 (1985).

JUDICIAL DECISIONS

Cited in D. Jack Davis Corp. v. Karp, 175 Ga. App. 482, 333 S.E.2d 685 (1985).

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