Georgia § 18-3-72 - Execution and levy on judgment.
Full text of Georgia Official Code of Georgia Annotated § 18-3-72 — Execution and levy on judgment., with citation guidance and answers to common questions.
§ 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 on by the attachment, as aforesaid, the execution shall be issued against such property only and that property only shall be levied on and sold. (Code 1933, § 8-903, enacted by Ga. L. 1982, p. 1578, § 1; Code 1981, § 18-3-72 , enacted by Ga. L. 1982, p. 1578, § 2.)
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