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§ 44-2-249. Cancellation of Creditor’s Certificate

The owner of a creditor’s certificate may authorize the clerk to register the cancellation thereof by writing thereon “Canceled. The clerk will please cancel the same on the title register” and dating and signing the same in the presence of an officer authorized to attest deeds. If the person owning the creditor’s certificate is not […]

§ 44-2-250. Request to Cancel Entries

Authority for the clerk to cancel entries of other liens, mortgages, encumbrances, special claims, and like matters may be conferred by the execution by the person in whose favor such matters exist or his personal representative of a request as follows: REQUEST TO CANCEL ENTRY To the Clerk of the Superior Court of County: You […]

§ 44-2-253. Filing Cases; Method of Filing Papers Relating to Registered Lands

The county governing authority shall furnish the clerk with the necessary durable filing cases. He shall carefully number and file away all papers relating to and dealing with registered lands. All the papers relating to each registered title shall be filed together and separately from the papers relating to any other registered title, in such […]

§ 44-2-237. Recordation and Notation of Plat

Whenever a plat of the premises which is too large or too intricate for easy transcription on the register of decrees of title or on the certificate of title is a part of the description of the lands or is used to aid description, it shall not be necessary for the clerk to copy such […]

§ 44-2-222. Process

The following is prescribed as the form of process to be attached to the petition: IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF COUNTY STATE OF GEORGIA To the sheriffs of said state and their lawful deputies: The respondents and all other persons whom it may concern are required to show cause before said court, on the day […]

§ 44-2-223. Advertisement

The advertisement to be inserted in the newspaper in which sheriff’s sales of the county are advertised for four insertions in separate weeks should be substantially in the following form: IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF COUNTY STATE OF GEORGIA In re petition ) Civil action of ) File no. ) To whom it may concern, […]

§ 44-2-224. Acknowledgment of Service

Acknowledgment of service may be made in the following form, provided it is entered on the petition or entitled in the action and is signed in the presence of the judge, the clerk, the examiner, or any other person or official authorized by law to administer oaths, take acknowledgments, or act as a notary public […]

§ 44-2-225. Sheriff’s Return

The sheriff’s return should be made substantially in the following form and entered on or attached to the petition: STATE OF GEORGIA, COUNTY I have served copies of the within petition and process, or of the summons in substitute therefor, upon the following persons at the time and in the manner stated, as follows: I […]