When any sheriff or other officer shall levy an execution or other process on property claimed by a third person not a party to the execution, the person, his agent, or his attorney may make oath claiming the property.
History. Laws 1839, Cobb’s 1851 Digest, p. 535; Code 1863, § 3650; Code 1868, § 3675; Code 1873, § 3725; Ga. L. 1877, p. 22, § 1; Code 1882, § 3725; Civil Code 1895, § 4611; Civil Code 1910, § 5157; Code 1933, § 39-801.
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For note discussing procedure under which third parties may file claims for property levied upon, see 12 Ga. L. Rev. 814 (1978).