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2021 Georgia Code
Title 44 - Property
Chapter 14 - Mortgages, Conveyances to Secure Debt, and Liens
Article 1 - In General
§ 44-14-10. Search for Property Where Defendant Has No Permanent Abode; Venue of Prosecution

Universal Citation:
GA Code § 44-14-10 (2021)
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When any person who violates Code Section 44-14-8, 44-14-9, or 44-14-11 has no permanent place of abode in this state, search may be made in any county into which or through which the property has been carried. Upon the failure to find the property upon which to levy, prosecution may be had against such person in any such county; and such person shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

(Ga. L. 1918, p. 262, § 3; Code 1933, § 67-9904.)

Editor's notes.

- Ga. L. 1962, p. 156, § 1, provides that any provision of Code Sections 44-14-1, 44-14-2, 44-14-4, 44-14-7 through 44-14-12, 44-14-100, and 44-14-160, and Arts. 2 and 3, Ch. 14, of this title which conflicts with T. 11 shall yield to and be superseded by T. 11. See Code Section 11-10-103.

JUDICIAL DECISIONS

Cited in Nelson v. State, 179 Ga. 743, 177 S.E. 253 (1934); Taylor, Bean, & Whitaker Mortg. Corp. v. Brown, 276 Ga. 848, 583 S.E.2d 844 (2003).

RESEARCH REFERENCES

Am. Jur. 2d.

- 21 Am. Jur. 2d, Criminal Law, § 542.

C.J.S.

- 92A C.J.S., Venue, § 91.

ALR.

- Validity, construction, and application of criminal provisions of statute relating expressly to conditional or installment sales of personal property, 129 A.L.R. 1077.

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