Georgia § 10-7-47 - Control of execution and judgment by surety - Subrogation to plaintiff's rights.
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§ 10-7-47. Control of execution and judgment by surety - Subrogation to plaintiff's rights.
Any surety on the original contract, or on stay of execution, or on appeal, or in any other way, or the representative of a deceased surety, who shall have paid off or discharged the judgment or execution in whole or in part and shall have the fact of such payment by him entered on such execution by the plaintiff or his attorney or the collecting officer, shall have the control of such execution and the judgment upon which it is founded, to the same extent as if he were the original plaintiff therein, and be subrogated to all the rights of such plaintiff, for the purpose of reimbursing himself from his principal. (Laws 1810, Cobb's 1851 Digest, p. 592; Laws 1826, Cobb's 1851 Digest, p. 594; Laws 1831, Cobb's 1851 Digest, p. 595; Laws 1845, Cobb's 1851 Digest, p. 598; Code 1863, § 2145; Code 1868, § 2140; Code 1873, § 2167; Code 1882, § 2167; Civil Code 1895, § 2986; Civil Code 1910, § 3558; Code 1933, § 103-308.)
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