- § 44-2-120 - Furnishing and Maintaining Register Books; Issuance of Owner's Certificate of Title
(a) The governing authority of each county shall provide the following books for the clerk of the superior court in the county: (1) A...
- § 44-2-121 - Signing and Dating Register Entries and Owners' Certificates
Every entry made in the register of decrees of title, in the title register, or upon the owner's certificate under any of the provisions...
- § 44-2-122 - Clerk's Duties and Liabilities; Conclusive Effect of Registration Entries; Time for Filing Caveat; Petition for Direction
(a) The clerk of the superior court shall determine whether any instrument, writing, record, or other matter is in proper shape for registration and...
- § 44-2-123 - Clerk's Duty to Ensure Proper Execution of Voluntary Transfer; Liability for Damage or Loss Arising From Registration of Improperly Executed Transfer
Before registering any voluntary transfer, the clerk shall satisfy himself that the same is witnessed and attested or acknowledged in accordance with law. The...
- § 44-2-124 - Performance of Duties Upon Disqualification, Death, or Disability of Clerk
If a clerk of the superior court is disqualified by reason of relationship, interest, or any other cause or in case of the death...
- § 44-2-125 - When Recordation Other Than Registration Not Required; Filing Instruments; Admissibility of Certified Copies and Use As Evidence; Recordation Procedure When Instrument is Not in Short Form
(a) Wherever a transfer, transfer as security for debt, or mortgage relating to an estate in registered land is executed in the form prescribed...
- § 44-2-126 - Notation of Lien or Encumbrance on Certificate of Title -- in General
Any writing or instrument for the purpose of encumbering or otherwise dealing with equitable interests in registered land or tending to show a claim...
- § 44-2-127 - Notation of Lien or Encumbrance on Certificate of Title -- Registered Encumbrances, Rights, and Adverse Claims
All registered encumbrances, rights, or adverse claims affecting registered estates shall continue to be noted upon every outstanding certificate of title and owner's certificate...
- § 44-2-128 - Registration of Transactions Affecting Unregistered Land As Notice
Every voluntary or involuntary transaction which if recorded, filed, or entered in any clerk's office would affect unregistered land shall, if duly registered on...
- § 44-2-129 - Registration of Involuntary Transactions on Court's Order; Form
Except as otherwise provided in this article, in cases of involuntary transactions no transfer of the title shall be registered except upon an order...
- § 44-2-130 - Cancellation of Decedent's Certificate and Issuance of New Certificate to Personal Representative
Upon the grant of letters of administration or executorship by the probate court and upon presentation of a certified copy of the letters to...
- § 44-2-131 - Declaration of Title by Descent Upon Petition; Service of Petition and Publication of Notice; Transfer of Registered Title and Issuance of New Certificates; Rights of Surviving Spouse
(a) Where the owner of registered land dies intestate and there is no administration upon the estate within 12 months from the date of...
- § 44-2-132 - Compelling Production of Owner's Certificate for Registration of Involuntary Transfer; Cancellation of Certificate Upon Failure to Produce It; Notice of Cancellation
Whenever an involuntary transfer is sought to be registered under this article and the owner's certificate is not produced so that it can be...
- § 44-2-133 - Procedure for Obtaining Duplicate of Lost Owner's Certificate
Whenever an owner's certificate of title is lost or destroyed, the owner or his personal representative may petition the court for the issuance of...
- § 44-2-134 - Filing Caveat Objecting to Entry in Title Register; Show Cause Hearing Upon Caveat
(a) If any person at interest objects to any entry, registration, or notation made by the clerk upon the title register, he may, unless...
- § 44-2-135 - Obtaining Notations in Title Register
In order to cause notations of judgments, liens, encumbrances, or special rights of any kind, other than voluntary transactions, claimed by any person against...
- § 44-2-136 - Cancellation of Mortgage, Lien, Equity, or Lis Pendens; Entry of Cancellation on Title Register and Certificate; Procedure Upon Refusal to Authorize Cancellation
(a) Voluntary cancellations may be made of any mortgage, certificate of indebtedness, or any lien, equity, encumbrance, lis pendens, or other similar matter relating...
- § 44-2-137 - What Adverse Claims Affect Registered Land; Effect of Fraud or Forgery; Limitations on Actions to Set Aside
(a) Except in cases of fraud or forgery to which he is a party or to which he is a privy without valuable consideration...
- § 44-2-138 - What Limitations Govern Actions by Injured Party for Fraud or Negligence
Notwithstanding any other provision of this article, any injured party may bring an action against any person or officer through whose fraud or negligence...
- § 44-2-139 - Registration and Title Certificate to Run With Land
Reserved. Repealed by Ga. L. 1989, p. 563, ยง 1, effective April 3, 1989.
- § 44-2-140 - Availability of Prescription or Adverse Possession Against Registered Land
Title to or right or interest in registered land in derogation of that of the registered owner may be acquired by prescription or adverse
- § 44-2-141 - Rights, Burdens, and Incidents As to Both Registered and Unregistered Land; Validity of Transfers of Title by Last Registered Owner
Except as otherwise specifically provided by this article, registered land and ownership therein shall be subject to the same rights, burdens, and incidents as...
- § 44-2-142 - Notation of Change of Name on Register and Certificate
Any person who has any interest in registered land and whose name has been changed by marriage or other cause may, by petition to...
- § 44-2-143 - Notation of Liens and Lis Pendens on Register; Effect Absent Notation
No judgment, levy, or other lien except a lien for taxes for which special provision is made in this article shall be effective against...
- § 44-2-144 - Freeing Land From Further Registration; Certificates As Conclusive Source of Title; Notation of Encumbrances; When Land Automatically Freed; Registered Land Free of Further Registration; Exception
(a) The registered owner of the fee simple title to land may cause a transfer of the title to be registered to "himself, his...
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