2021 Georgia Code
Title 18 - Debtor and Creditor
Chapter 3 - Attachment Proceedings
Article 1 - General Provisions
- § 18-3-1. Grounds for Attachment
- § 18-3-2. Right to Seek Attachment on Money Demands Generally
- § 18-3-3. Attachment Prior to Debt Becoming Due; Stay of Execution When Debt Not Due Before Final Judgment
- § 18-3-4. Attachment After Action Commenced; Effect of Judgment on Pending Action
- § 18-3-5. Attachment Against Administrator or Executor; Entry of Final Judgment
- § 18-3-6. Attachment Against Joint Contractors or Partners
- § 18-3-7. Attachment Against Nonresident Corporations
- § 18-3-8. Right of Surety or Endorser Upon an Instrument of Writing to Attach Property of Principal
- § 18-3-9. Application for Issuance of Writ of Attachment Prior to Judgment; Contents of Application; Procedure
- § 18-3-10. Bond Requirements Generally
- § 18-3-10.1. Service of Process in Action Against Nonresident Plaintiff for Damages
- § 18-3-11. Affidavit for Attachment and Execution of Bond When Debt Due to Partnership or Several Persons Jointly
- § 18-3-12. Persons Who May Be Taken as Security or Surety on a Bond
- § 18-3-13. Procedure for Contesting Sufficiency of Bond; Requirement of Additional Security or New Bond; Failure to Comply
- § 18-3-14. Service of Writ of Attachment on Defendant; Notification of Defendant of Issuance of Attachment
- § 18-3-15. Right of Defendant to Postseizure Hearing
- § 18-3-16. Issuance and Levy of Attachment on Sunday
- § 18-3-17. Courts to Which Attachments Returnable; Applicability of Rules of Civil Practice and Procedure; Filing of Declaration in Attachment; Notice of Declaration
- § 18-3-18. Applicability of Chapter 10 of Title 9 Subsequent to Filing of Declaration in Attachment
- § 18-3-19. Forms for Attachment
- § 18-3-20. Substantial Compliance in Matters of Form Sufficient
- For article surveying judicial developments in Georgia's trial practice and procedure laws, see 31 Mercer L. Rev. 249 (1979). For note discussing grounds and proceedings for attachment, see 12 Ga. L. Rev. 814 (1978).
JUDICIAL DECISIONS
Cited in Outlaw v. Premium Distrib. Co., 83 Ga. App. 198, 63 S.E.2d 260 (1951).
RESEARCH REFERENCES
ALR.
- Attachment for goods or money embezzled, stolen, or converted, 4 A.L.R. 832.
What are "tools," "implements," "instruments," "utensils," or "apparatus" within the meaning of debtor's exemption laws, 9 A.L.R. 1020; 36 A.L.R. 669; 52 A.L.R. 826.
Seat in chamber of commerce, board of trade, or stock exchange as subject of attachment, garnishment, or execution, 14 A.L.R. 284.
Attachment or garnishment of goods covered by negotiable warehouse receipt, 40 A.L.R. 969.
Right of state court, in enforcing rights under federal statute, to obtain jurisdiction by means not available in federal court, 42 A.L.R. 1236.
Action based on statute as one in which attachment will lie, 51 A.L.R. 1386.
What amounts to an attachment or levy within provision of the Uniform Conditional Sales Act avoiding reservation of title by unfiled contract, 54 A.L.R. 269.
Validity and construction of statute requiring statement of account due one having special or limited interest in property seized under attachment or execution against another, 63 A.L.R. 575.
What constitutes an action for recovery of money only within statute as to the character of actions in which attachment may issue, 76 A.L.R. 1446.
Attachment or garnishment as interference with foreign or interstate commerce, 85 A.L.R. 1395.
Action based on rescission of contract as one arising on contract, express or implied, within the meaning of attachment statute, 95 A.L.R. 1028.
Local property of insolvent foreign corporation for which a liquidator or receiver has been appointed in another state as subject to sequestration or seizure under execution or attachment, 98 A.L.R. 351.
Attachment or garnishment with respect to award (or judgment thereon) under Workmen's Compensation Act, 126 A.L.R. 150.
Pledgor's interest as subject to attachment by pledgee for another debt, and effect of the attachment upon the pledge, 126 A.L.R. 188.
Bankruptcy of debtor as affecting necessity of compliance with conditions precedent to enforcement of bond in attachment or other judicial proceeding, 130 A.L.R. 1162.
Residence of partnership for purposes of statutes authorizing attachment or garnishment on ground of nonresidence, 9 A.L.R.2d 471.
What is an action for "debt" within attachment or garnishment statute, 12 A.L.R.2d 787.
Recovery of damages for mental anguish, distress, suffering, or the like, in action for wrongful attachment, garnishment, sequestration, or execution, 83 A.L.R.3d 598.
