2025 Code of Georgia
Title 44 - Property (Chs. 1 — 17)
Chapter 7 - Landlord and Tenant (Arts. 1 — 6)
Article 4 - Distress Warrants (§§ 44-7-70 — 44-7-82)

Annotations

JUDICIAL DECISIONS

Remedy of distraint is purely a creature of statute, and is subject to strict rules of construction. D. Jack Davis Corp. v. Karp, 175 Ga. App. 482, 333 S. E.2d 685, 1985 Ga. App. LEXIS 2123 (1985).

Landlord may not avoid in any lease “for the use or rental of real property as a dwelling place” any of the requirements set forth in former Code 1933, § 61-401 et seq. (see now O. C. G. A. § 44-7-70 et seq.); however, a landlord may contract to avoid these statutory requirements when renting property which was not to be used as a dwelling place. Colonial Self Storage of S. E., Inc. v. Concord Properties, Inc., 147 Ga. App. 493, 249 S. E.2d 310, 1978 Ga. App. LEXIS 2732 (1978); Wilkerson v. Chattahoochee Parks, 244 Ga. 472, 260 S. E.2d 867, 1979 Ga. LEXIS 1295 (1979).

Research References & Practice Aids

For comment discussing due process problems with Georgia’s distress warrant proceedings prior to the adoption of the 1975 Acts, see 9 Ga. St. B. J. 336 (1973).

52B C. J. S., Landlord and Tenant, § 1421 et seq.

Subject matter covered by landlord’s statutory lien for rent, 9 A. L. R. 300; 96 A. L. R. 249.

Goods owned by stranger or subject to an encumbrance in his favor as subject to distraint for rent, 62 A. L. R. 1106.

O. C. G. A. Title 44

O. C. G. A. Title 44, Ch. 7