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Home » US Law » 2022 Georgia Code » Title 18 - Debtor and Creditor » Chapter 3 - Attachment Proceedings » Article 4 - Judgment, Execution, and Levy

§ 18-3-70. Property Bound by Judgment in Attachment

When the defendant has given bond and security, or when he has appeared and made defense by himself or attorney at law without raising a valid defense of lack of jurisdiction over the person, the judgment rendered against him in such case shall bind all his property and shall have the same force and effect […]

§ 18-3-71. Setting Aside Judgment

A judgment in attachment may be set aside in a court of law upon an issue suggesting fraud or want of consideration, tendered by a judgment creditor of the defendant in attachment. History. Code 1933, § 8-902, enacted by Ga. L. 1982, p. 1578, § 1; Code 1981, § 18-3-71 , enacted by Ga. L. […]

§ 18-3-72. Execution and Levy on Judgment

After the judgment has been obtained in any case of attachment, execution shall issue as in cases at common law, which execution shall be levied in the same manner as executions issuing at common law; and the proceedings in all respects shall be the same, except that when the judgment only binds the property levied […]

§ 18-3-73. Application of Proceeds of Sale

All money raised by the sale of defendant’s property or otherwise, by virtue of this chapter, shall be paid over to the creditors of the defendant, according to the priority of the lien of their judgments, except that as between attaching creditors the attachment first levied shall be first satisfied to the entire exclusion of […]

§ 18-3-74. When Lien Arises; Priorities

The lien of an attachment is created by the levy and not the judgment in the attachment; and in case of a conflict between attachments, the first levied shall be first satisfied; but in a contest between attachments and ordinary judgments or suits, it is the judgment and not the levy which fixes the lien. […]

§ 18-3-75. Entry on Attachment Docket; Effect of Failure to Make Such Entry

As against the interests of third parties acting in good faith and without notice who may have acquired a transfer or lien binding any real estate, no attachment levied upon real estate shall be a lien on the same from the levy thereof unless said attachment is entered upon the attachment docket of the county […]