2021 Georgia Code
Title 18 - Debtor and Creditor
Chapter 3 - Attachment Proceedings

- Executions and judicial sales, T. 9, C. 13.

Attachment of goods covered by negotiable document of title, § 11-7-602.

Issuance of writ of ne exeat to restrain person from leaving jurisdiction of state, § 23-3-20 et seq.

Jeopardy assessments by state revenue commissioner in situations where taxpayer gives evidence of intention to leave state, to remove property from state, or other actions to avoid collection of state tax, § 48-2-51.

Attachment of property by state revenue commissioner, § 48-2-55.

- For article critically analyzing the various elements constitutionally required for prejudgment seizure of a debtor's property, focusing on § 9-503 of the U.C.C., see 28 Mercer L. Rev. 665 (1977). For note discussing implications for other postjudgment collection devices of developments in postjudgment garnishment law in Georgia, see 12 Ga. L. Rev. 60 (1977). For note discussing constitutional issues affecting attachment procedures, see 12 Ga. L. Rev. 814 (1978).

JUDICIAL DECISIONS

For discussion of constitutionality of attachment proceeding prior to 1980 revision.

- See Kitson v. Hawke, 231 Ga. 157, 200 S.E.2d 703 (1973).

Wrongful Attachment, 36 POF2d 149.

- Exemption from attachment or execution of property brought by nonresident witness or litigant who comes into state in connection with the litigation, 13 A.L.R. 368.

Attachment in alienation of affections or criminal conversation case, 67 A.L.R.2d 527.

Necessity and sufficiency, in order to toll statute of limitations as to debt, of statement of amount of debt in acknowledgement or new promise to pay, 21 A.L.R.4th 1121.

Liquor license as subject to execution or attachment, 40 A.L.R.4th 927.