Georgia Code
Part 4 - Registers and Registration
§ 44-2-124. Performance of Duties Upon Disqualification, Death, or Disability of Clerk

If a clerk of the superior court is disqualified by reason of relationship, interest, or any other cause or in case of the death or other disability of the clerk to act in any matter arising under this article, the duties required of the clerk may be performed either by the judge of the probate court of the county or by a special clerk appointed by the judge for that purpose. The entry of the appointment of the special clerk and of the purpose for which he is appointed shall be entered and recorded upon the minutes of the court.
History. Ga. L. 1917, p. 108, § 69; Code 1933, § 60-414.

Structure Georgia Code

Georgia Code

Title 44 - Property

Chapter 2 - Recordation and Registration of Deeds and Other Instruments

Article 2 - Land Registration

Part 4 - Registers and Registration

§ 44-2-120. Furnishing and Maintaining Register Books; Issuance of Owner’s Certificate of Title

§ 44-2-121. Signing and Dating Register Entries and Owners’ Certificates

§ 44-2-122. Clerk’s Duties and Liabilities; Conclusive Effect of Registration Entries; Time for Filing Caveat; Petition for Direction

§ 44-2-123. Clerk’s Duty to Ensure Proper Execution of Voluntary Transfer; Liability for Damage or Loss Arising From Registration of Improperly Executed Transfer

§ 44-2-124. Performance of Duties Upon Disqualification, Death, or Disability of Clerk

§ 44-2-125. When Recordation Other Than Registration Not Required; Filing Instruments; Admissibility of Certified Copies and Use as Evidence; Recordation Procedure When Instrument Is Not in Short Form

§ 44-2-126. Notation of Lien or Encumbrance on Certificate of Title — in General

§ 44-2-127. Notation of Lien or Encumbrance on Certificate of Title — Registered Encumbrances, Rights, and Adverse Claims

§ 44-2-128. Registration of Transactions Affecting Unregistered Land as Notice

§ 44-2-129. Registration of Involuntary Transactions on Court’s Order; Form

§ 44-2-130. Cancellation of Decedent’s Certificate and Issuance of New Certificate to Personal Representative

§ 44-2-131. Declaration of Title by Descent Upon Petition; Service of Petition and Publication of Notice; Transfer of Registered Title and Issuance of New Certificates; Rights of Surviving Spouse

§ 44-2-132. Compelling Production of Owner’s Certificate for Registration of Involuntary Transfer; Cancellation of Certificate Upon Failure to Produce It; Notice of Cancellation

§ 44-2-133. Procedure for Obtaining Duplicate of Lost Owner’s Certificate

§ 44-2-134. Filing Caveat Objecting to Entry in Title Register; Show Cause Hearing Upon Caveat

§ 44-2-135. Obtaining Notations in Title Register

§ 44-2-136. Cancellation of Mortgage, Lien, Equity, or Lis Pendens; Entry of Cancellation on Title Register and Certificate; Procedure Upon Refusal to Authorize Cancellation

§ 44-2-137. What Adverse Claims Affect Registered Land; Effect of Fraud or Forgery; Limitations on Actions to Set Aside

§ 44-2-138. What Limitations Govern Actions by Injured Party for Fraud or Negligence

§ 44-2-140. Availability of Prescription or Adverse Possession Against Registered Land

§ 44-2-141. Rights, Burdens, and Incidents as to Both Registered and Unregistered Land; Validity of Transfers of Title by Last Registered Owner

§ 44-2-142. Notation of Change of Name on Register and Certificate

§ 44-2-143. Notation of Liens and Lis Pendens on Register; Effect Absent Notation

§ 44-2-144. Freeing Land From Further Registration; Certificates as Conclusive Source of Title; Notation of Encumbrances; When Land Automatically Freed; Registered Land Free of Further Registration; Exception