Georgia Code, Title 9, Chapter 12, Article 4 - Judgment Liens

• § 9-12-80 - Equal Dignity and Binding Effect of Judgments
  All judgments obtained in the superior courts, magistrate courts, or other courts of this state shall be of equal dignity and shall bind all...
• § 9-12-81 - General Execution Docket; When Money Judgment in County of Defendant's Residence Creates Lien Against Third Parties Without Notice
  (a) The clerk of superior court of each county shall be required to keep a general execution docket in paper or electronic data base...
• § 9-12-82 - When Money Judgment Outside County of Defendant's Residence Creates Lien Against Third Parties Without Notice
  As against bona fide purchasers for value without actual notice of a judgment or other third parties acting in good faith and without notice...
• § 9-12-83 - When Money Judgment Creates Lien on Land Located Outside County in Which Obtained Against Third Parties Without Notice
  No money judgment obtained in any court of this state or federal court in this state shall create any lien on land in any...
• § 9-12-84 - When Money Judgment Against Nonresident Creates Lien on Land Within State Against Third Parties Without Notice
  (a) As against the interests of third parties acting in good faith and without notice who have acquired a transfer or lien binding any...
• § 9-12-85 - Deeds, Mortgages, Judgments, or Liens Between Parties Not Affected by Money Judgments
  Nothing in Code Sections 9-12-81 and 9-12-82 shall be construed to affect the validity or force of any deed, mortgage, judgment, or other lien...
• § 9-12-86 - Recordation in County Where Property Located Prerequisite to Lien on Land
  (a) For purposes of this Code section, the term "applicable records" shall include deed books, lis pendens dockets, federal tax lien dockets, general execution...
• § 9-12-87 - Judgments From Same Term Considered of Equal Date
  (a) All judgments signed on verdicts rendered at the same term of court shall be considered, held, and taken to be of equal date.(b)...
• § 9-12-88 - Extent Property Affected by Judgment Pending Appeal
  In all cases in which a judgment is rendered and an appeal is entered from the judgment, the property of the defendant in judgment...
• § 9-12-89 - Effect of Appellate Proceeding on Lien
  A judgment in the trial court which is taken to the Supreme Court or the Court of Appeals and is affirmed loses no lien...
• § 9-12-90 - Judgments Relating to Common Disaster
  (a) Liens of all judgments obtained in actions for damages growing out of a common disaster or occurrence shall be equal in rank or...
• § 9-12-91 - Effect of Judgment on Promissory Notes
  A judgment creates no lien upon promissory notes in the hands of the defendant.
• § 9-12-92 - Effect of Judgment Lien on Personalty Removed to Another State, Sold, and Returned
  When a judgment lien has attached to personal property which is removed to another state and sold, the property shall be subject to the...
• § 9-12-93 - When Purchased Property Discharged From Lien
  When any person has bona fide and for a valuable consideration purchased real or personal property and has been in the possession of the...
• § 9-12-94 - Clerk's Fees
  For entering an execution upon the general execution docket, the clerk shall be entitled to the fees enumerated in Code Section 15-6-77.

Last modified: October 14, 2016