Georgia Code
Chapter 13 - Executions and Judicial Sales
Article 7 - Judicial Sales

Part 1 - Advertisement

§ 9-13-140. How Judicial Sales Advertised; Description of Property; Advertisement and Sale of Livestock - History. Laws 1799, Cobb’s 1851 Digest, p. 509; Laws 1850,...

§ 9-13-141. Timing of Advertisements - In all cases where the law requires citations, notices, or...

§ 9-13-142. Requirements for Official Organ of Publication; Designation Where No Journal or Newspaper Qualifies; How Official Organ Changed; Notice to Secretary of State - History. Laws 1850, Cobb’s 1851 Digest, p. 580; Code 1863,...

§ 9-13-143. Rates for Legal Advertisements - In all cases fractional parts shall be charged for at...

§ 9-13-144. Alternate Advertising When Rates Not Agreed On - History. Ga. L. 1878-79, p. 81, § 3; Code 1882,...

§ 9-13-145. Advertising Costs Paid in Advance; Exception When Affidavit of Indigence Filed - No sheriff or deputy sheriff shall be required to advertise...

Part 2 - Conduct and Effect

§ 9-13-160. Time of Conducting Public Sale - History. Ga. L. 1963, p. 366, § 1; Ga. L....

§ 9-13-161. Where and When Sales Under Execution Held; Change of Place of Public Sales by Court Order - History. Laws 1799, Cobb’s 1851 Digest, p. 509; Laws 1821,...

§ 9-13-161.1. Holding of Sales of Personal Property at Place Other Than Courthouse; Advertisement of General Order as to Sale Location - History. Ga. L. 1965, p. 3260, §§ 1-5; Code 1981,...

§ 9-13-162. Continuance of Sale From Day to Day - Any sheriff, coroner, constable, tax collector, guardian, trustee, or any...

§ 9-13-163. Sale of Perishable Property — When and by Whom Ordered; Where Held - Whenever any personal property which is of a perishable nature...

§ 9-13-164. Sale of Perishable Property — Advertisement; Notice; Disposition of Proceeds - History. Ga. L. 1873, p. 48, § 1; Code 1873,...

§ 9-13-165. Sale of Perishable Property — Under Tax Executions - Whenever a tax fi. fa. is levied on property which...

§ 9-13-166. Form of Tender - Purchasers at judicial sales need not tender cash but, as...

§ 9-13-167. Purchaser to Ascertain Title and Condition; Under What Conditions Officer Personally Liable - History. Ga. L. 1853-54, p. 56, § 1; Code 1863,...

§ 9-13-168. Obligations of Purchaser - The purchaser at a judicial sale shall not be bound...

§ 9-13-169. Note or Memorandum Unnecessary - No note or memorandum in writing shall be necessary to...

§ 9-13-170. Liability for Purchase Money; Officer’s Collection Options - History. Laws 1831, Cobb’s 1851 Digest, p. 514; Code 1863,...

§ 9-13-171. When Defendant Bound by Sale Under Void Process - Where property is sold under void process and the proceeds...

§ 9-13-172. When Execution Sale Set Aside - Courts shall have full power over their officers making execution...

§ 9-13-172.1. “Eligible Sale” Defined; Recision of Sale; Damages - the damages that may be awarded to the purchaser in...

§ 9-13-173. Effect of Judicial Sale on Title - A sale regularly made by virtue of judicial process issuing...

§ 9-13-174. When Sheriff’s Successor Empowered to Make Titles - If a sheriff fails to make titles to a purchaser,...

§ 9-13-175. Duty of Officer to Place Purchaser in Possession; Which Persons Officer May Dispossess - When any sheriff or other officer sells any real estate...

§ 9-13-176. How Possession Obtained After Expiration of Court Term or Replacement of Officer - If the purchaser of real estate at sheriff’s and other...

§ 9-13-177. Right to Enforce Covenants - The purchaser at a judicial sale may enforce any covenants...

§ 9-13-178. When Title Deeds Prior to Purchase Must Be Proved - In all controversies in the courts of this state, the...