Any person who fraudulently causes any process, attachment, distress, or execution to be levied on any estrayed animal, lot of land, or other property, knowing that the same is not subject to the process or writ, shall, for the first offense, be guilty of a misdemeanor. For any subsequent conviction, the person shall be sentenced to confinement for not less than two nor more than four years.
History. Laws 1837, Cobb’s 1851 Digest, pp. 849, 850; Code 1863, § 4333; Ga. L. 1865-66, p. 233, § 14; Code 1868, § 4369; Code 1873, § 4436; Code 1882, § 4436; Penal Code 1895, § 218; Penal Code 1910, § 215; Code 1933, § 39-9901.
Structure Georgia Code
Chapter 13 - Executions and Judicial Sales
Article 1 - General Provisions
§ 9-13-1. Entry and Signing of Judgment Prerequisite to Execution
§ 9-13-2. Execution Suspended by Appeal
§ 9-13-3. Execution to Follow Judgment
§ 9-13-4. Judge May Frame Executions
§ 9-13-5. Amendment of Execution — to Conform to Judgment or Time of Return
§ 9-13-6. Amendment of Execution — to Conform to Amended Judgment
§ 9-13-7. Amendment of Execution — to Correct Mistake in Issuance; Alias Execution
§ 9-13-8. Issuance of Alias Execution to Replace Lost Original
§ 9-13-9. When Execution Returnable
§ 9-13-10. Issuance of Execution; to Whom Directed; on What Property Levied
§ 9-13-11. Direction, Levy, Service, and Return of Execution When Sheriff a Party
§ 9-13-12. Entry of Levy on Process
§ 9-13-13. Written Notice of Levy on Land
§ 9-13-14. Bonds Taken by Executing Officers Valid; Rights of Plaintiffs Not Affected